Just last week, DHS was roundly mocked for a press release that used wall in a similar manner. Read: Trump keeps invoking terrorism to get his border wall Besides the Hulk, “We need wall” reminded some of Steve Carell as the low-IQ weatherman Brick Tamland in Anchorman awkwardly declaring “ I love lamp.” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes mused, “Did DHS make a style guide change that there’s no definite article before wall?” Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo agreed that this seems like an intentional shift in usage, “but it’s not clear what the point is beyond sounding like you have some kind of focused brain damage.” Oliver Willis of Shareblue Media posted the clip, confirming that it was “an actual quote” from the secretary of homeland security and not from the Incredible Hulk, despite Nielsen’s primitive-sounding “Hulk smash” locution. Nielsen’s plea for “wall”-as opposed to “ a wall” or “ the wall”-drew torrents of ridicule on Twitter. When asked by Marino to clarify what she meant by “wall,” she explained that what the administration envisions is really a “wall system,” combining walls, fencing, and various technology. I mean, they got bizarrely angry about my hair.Nielsen was, of course, referring to the wall along the southern border with Mexico that President Donald Trump has demanded that Congress fund, precipitating the shutdown threat. Kids called me names and ostracized me at school. When my hair first started growing in curly during puberty (that happens a lot, actually-one of my stylists called it the “puberty perm”), the pressure to straighten it quickly reached a fever pitch. I say this from experience, as a Jewish woman. The vast majority of our culture’s anti-curl venom is directed at Black women, but other curly-haired people get some of it, too. I was not to face the world until my hair looked as near as it could to ‘good hair,’ also known as ‘White girl’s hair.'” Marita Golden writes about it in her essay “My Black Hair.” She describes getting her hair straightened with a hot comb, trying to avoid “that awful, horrible place where my hair was on my head in its natural state, not hurting me or anybody else, but coarse, tightly curled, and, to the eyes of so many around me, unacceptable …. ![]() Take, for example, Rapunzel and Mother Gothel in Disney’s Tangled: Rapunzel’s long blond hair makes her beautiful, while Gothel’s dark curly hair establishes her as the evil “other.” Straight hair-that is, white people’s hair-is the standard against which all other hair types are judged.īlack people, especially Black women, are intimately familiar with this type of racism. According to Western beauty standards, straight hair (with maybe some gentle waves) is considered ideal. ![]() The most likely answer is something that curly haired people, especially women, are all too familiar with. What on Earth? Why? I know that’s what She-Hulk looks like in the comics, but if you’re letting curly-haired Tatiana Maslany keep her natural texture in her human form, why change it when she’s a hulk? When she’s in her normal form, Jennifer’s hair is curly (I’d say between a 3A and 3B texture, same as mine), but when she transforms, it suddenly lengthens and relaxes into a completely different texture. ![]() You’ll admit that the curly-to-wavy transformation is weird, right? There’s no logical reason for it.
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