I'm really sick of these pseudo-studies on black women.
The latest study, I guess in an effort to get into the mind of the black woman, is an attempt to understand why black women don't go to the gym. Black Women, Exercise and hair
I'm sick of the way these research papers and studies are conducted. It's like, they take the smallest "random sample size" they can find, and just...run with it. Really, Dr. McMichael? REALLY HOMEGIRL?!?! *eye roll* As a scholar, a dermatologist, and from the reading, it seems a black woman, you should know better and should have put together a better study.
According to the 2010 census, 42 MILLION Americans identified themselves as African-American, with 28% of that 42 MILLION being black, single females. Keep in mind, I'm not counting married/divorced/widowed black women, just single. By those numbers, that means that almost 12 Million of the original 42 Million counted are black female, and you mean to tell me, that this craptastic study that only talked to 103 women is the standard for what black females think about exercise?
"Towel Cheese" *in my Legend voice*
First off, if you want to address the situation of why many black women don't go to the gym, your study should have hit each area of the United States. Black women in the North, West, and East appear to go to the gym more than those in the south, and my little hypothesis is based on simple conversations and social network statuses. The South, my home, has a different approach to health PERIOD. Keep in mind, Mississippi and Alabama were ranked the most obese states in the union, and this was based on total population, not a fractured part of said population. Second, can we address the fact that more and more black women are now natural? And the ones who aren't natural wear weaves, so what "hair" are we really "worried" about. Finally, let's address this sample size again. Like, it blows me. REALLY?!?!? 103 people. One-oh-three. They didn't even sample .000000000001% of the black female population of North Carolina, let ALONE the black female population in general.
And what blows me the most? What REALLY blows me...is that black men are reading this study and co-signing it all the way to the bank.
*le sigh*
