Comic: How To Pay a Compliment

[teaberryblue]

Man, I suck! I totally forgot to post my comic on time. Here it is a little late. All the things that happened in this comic are true things that happened to me-- and the timing is appropriate since an instance of the "wrong way" happened today! Oh, people. Someday I will start grabbing your hair back if I didn't suspect you of having icky germs.



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Mirrored from Antagonia.net.

Comments

[weyrdchic.livejournal.com]

Dear God. Are you of color and your icon's nonindicative or are people just this freaking clueless about anything that has a texture?

[zia-narratora.livejournal.com]

Nope! I am white. But my hair is much closer to what a lot of people would consider mixed hair than typical white hair in texture and thickness and curliness. I don't know any other white people with hair like mine-- my mom has curly hair, but hers is more like white-people-curly-hair. A lot of people also ask me if I'm white, so apparently hair is enough of a "not white" indicator to confuse people who like to put people in neat little boxes. So I do think that this is still racialized behavior-- at least, it seems like that to me.

[weyrdchic.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, makes sense - it just sounded so much like a ton of 'don't touch my hair' stories I'd heard from black people who go 'natural'. Which makes the Southern woman extra special too. Either way, wow, some people are morons.