I too wish that "we" would remove the term "bad hair" from our vocabulary.
I was shopping in Wal-Mart the other day when a man with starter locks approached me to ask about my locks. During our conversation he tells me that his loctician says that his hair will lock easily because he has a bad grade of hair.
Then he goes on to tell me that his niece, who wears her hair naturally has really bad hair, too. That is why he is trying to convince her to lock hers up.
I repeated these statements back to him, hoping that he would realize how stupid they were. No such luck. He nodded in agreement.
Then I had to get really elementary on his behind, and explained why "bad hair" is terminology he should never use.
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Originally Posted by Still BLUTANG
the only way nappy = bad is when straight/wavy = good.
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This is basically the reason that I gave. Then he asks me what he should call it. Why not just call it hair?
I refer to my hair as nappy; so do most of my friends with natural hair. But I would not advise this guy to do that. I'm sure the word nappy has a negative connotation when he uses it.
To address the original post, I think the term nappy is considered derogatory because of social conditioning.