I am shocked that you've gotten your hair straight with *anything.* At this point, I would never straighten my hair because I feel very strongly about the negative social pressure that people with hair like ours are made to feel and that women in general are made to feel about any physical feature they have that looks different from typical standards of white beauty. But I damn well tried when I was in high school, all the time!

It also bugs me when people say "ethnic" when you know they mean "black." I used ethnic here because I am specifically talking about white ethnicities and wanted to be clear that I don't equate the treatment I get for having curly hair with the treatment black people get on a regular basis for much more than having curly hair, but in that case it sounds like the person considered "black" to be a swear word.