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as i got in from work today, i flipped on the television and started watching oprah. . .she was doing a show about high-tech gadgetry. . .she had some guy by the name of "omar" on as the expert who had absolutley amazing hair in dreadlocks. . .i'm not a huge dread fan, but this guys hair was. . .it was. . .uggghh!!! amazing! the only word i can come up with! it was down to his waiste. . .and apparently oprah was pretty amazed herself because she asked him to stand up and turn his back to the camera and show it off.
go oprah!
oprah needs to do more than that to impress me. a few months ago she had a show where several long haired men and women had makeovers which included short hair cuts. two of the guys had great long hair which was reduced to ordinary short hair.
i hate those cut-it-short makeovers.
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Yeah, they're as charming as rubbing chemicals on the faces of black men to make them white. Stamp out anybody who's different. Chop off the hair of Indian youth and beat them for speaking Navajo. Burn the polygamists' town down and run them out of Illinois. No, a hundred and fifty years later they'll be telling others who they can marry. Maybe we should just build camps for people who are different. Oh, darn, somebody already thought of that. It turned out really messy, and damn, it just didn't work.
Or maybe we should recognize all this for the abuse that it is and let all people live their own lives, unmolested, in peace.
For my take on "makeovers", visit the link below. You won't be surprised to find it under the heading, "Abuse in the Media":
gee, thanks for all those *positive" comments guys. oprah did something positive, be happy with it. . .instead of the depression spiral you are on.
We are all capable of saying no if we want to. I agree completely that it's a shame that people are so desperate to promote short hair as superior to long, but if the men on the Oprah shows referred to really wanted to keep their hair long, they would probably not have asked for makeovers.
Similar stories can be found in the Los Angeles Times:
See:
Remaking Mr. Jones;
Sunday, October 6, 1991
Home Edition
Section: Los Angeles Times Magazine
also:
MR. JONES' MAKE-OVER
Sunday, November 10, 1991
Home Edition
Section: Los Angeles Times Magazine
Once again, the media is telling you that long hair is "not normal"!
Yeah, I saw that one, too! I was pretty damn amazed; indeed, the guy has great hair (and even though I'm also not a fan of dreadlocks). It was really nice to see that on TV.
As far as other people's comment about short-hair makeovers.. ahh, get over it! I mean, what do you really expect from a Jenny Jones show which just recently had a "best strip-down" contest? Don't take these shows seriously, people that go on them are pretty much low-life, just showing off on national TV. It's daytime TV--mostly unemployed, grandmas and housewifes/househusbands watching that.