• emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    elaborate hair is a class signifier that shows you can afford to both a) pay someone to do it and b) sit there losing productive labor time while it's done

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Unironically yes, elaborate hair has been a social marker that might actually predate modern humans.

    • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      exception is black women, often unpaid labor of family or friends, cultural phenomenon rather than inherited class idiom

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      If you have anything but a naturally colored crew cut you get the wall for bourgeois decadence.