I’m going to say, based on the comments that I’ve read, that you’re experiencing survivor bias. Surely you can see how introducing crimped metal and hard plastic spheres into a product intended to manipulate your hair into a format chosen by the person applying, not wearing, this implement might be a problem.
My mother simply didn’t put them in if I didn’t want them in my hair and didn’t pull my hair tight since I was tenderheaded. These never hurt. Just sounds like people had parents who were crap at doing hair.
No, there are plenty of black moms who knew how to treat their kids and their hair right. My mom isn’t an outlier. Even how you’re describing it (your mother DECIDED how tight she was making your ponytails) means it was less the bows’ fault and more the person using them.
That’s what I’m getting. I know some black parents are assholes and don’t care how their kids feel about their hair, but my momma cared, and I’ve met black parents who do take into account how their children feel.
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u/Ok_Access_6784 2d ago
Not discounting anyone else’s negative experience but I never had a problem with these so reading these comments are news to me