Pippi Longstocking back in style

what's with the braids?

If Climatepuppet Greta came into my office when I was a physician, I would tell her where to learn how to put on makeup and get a haircut and get her into counseling to help her with her self esteem issues and depression.

Did my other patients wear braids? well, a few of the "religious" type patients did, and ex hippies usually had a single braid, but there weren't a lot who wore the double braids reminiscent of Hitler Yutes 

whoops: not pc. I mean reminiscent of Pippi Longstocking.

then I came across this lecture, telling people with disabilities it's okay to have sex (uh, does she know how often those with developmental disabilities are sexually exploited?).
so why are these ladies wearing braids? To look ugly? or is it the new "PC"?




wearing double braids can remind one of the "good old days" when married ladies braided their hair across their heads like a crown:

My Objibwe neighbors would wear braids when they would dress up for celebrations: but not usually at the clinic.

and braids are still stylish in the Black community:

Braiding in the black community (and in Africa braided hair was and is common: at least in more traditional/rural areas) was a practical way to wear your unruly hair without all the mess of trying to straighten it out to look fashionable (i.e. look like a white girl).



the multiple braids in black fashion are now being used by white girls trying to look hip, and some in the black community are not happy about it.

 Braid Bar, CC BY-NC-ND

With white British models Moss and Jones as the faces of the ad campaign, Selfridges’ Braid Bar has been accused of endorsing a white standard of beauty. Across social media, critics are calling out this lack of diversity while crucially noting Selfridges’ additional miscalculation: the appropriation of black culture. The point being that this style of hair braiding is central to black female identity.

which is of course, nonsense. Braided hair is seen in ancient Egyptian art and Indian art, and the neolithic European Venus von Willendorf idol shows her wearing corn rolls.

But when teenager who has a flat affect whose braids make her look like a child starts spouting she hates you for being evil, well, it reminds one of this iconic story 

https://horrorpedia.com/2017/06/19/children-of-the-corn-runaway-2017-horror-film-movie-overview-cast-plot/

Steven King call your office: the kids are back.