This site uses cookies to improve your experience and to provide services and advertising.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies described in our Cookies Policy.
You may change your settings at any time but this may impact on the functionality of the site.
To learn more see our
Cookies Policy.
Download our app
Glamour had to apologise for this mortifying article about 'Becky with the good hair'
awesomelyluvvie awesomelyluvvie
LAST WEEKEND, BEYONCÉ dropped Lemonade on the world and turned the mysterious “Becky with the good hair” into an overnight sensation.
Since then, the phrase has taken over social media, inspired approximately one million think pieces and been meme’d beyond recognition.
Yesterday, Glamour decided to weigh in and published an article entitled “Things you only know if you’re called Becky and you have good hair” in which two Glamour employees named Becky defended themselves and their “enviable tresses”.
Glamour Glamour
GlamourMagUK / Twitter GlamourMagUK / Twitter / Twitter
The article has been widely criticised for ignoring the connotations of the terms ‘Becky’ ‘good hair’ in the African-American community.
‘Good hair’ is often used to describe a black person’s hair that shares characteristics with the hair of non-black people. As Rebecca Thomas of MTV explains, it’s quite a loaded term.
‘Becky,’ meanwhile, is an umbrella term used to describe white women. (You mayremember her from the beginning of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back.)
Whoops!
We couldn't find this Tweet
Whoops!
We couldn't find this Tweet
Earlier this evening, Glamour sent a series of tweets apologising for not appreciating the significance of the terms and stated that they were “mortified”.
GlamourMagUK / Twitter GlamourMagUK / Twitter / Twitter
The article in question has since been deleted.
DailyEdge is on Snapchat! Tap the button below to add!
To embed this post, copy the code below on your site
becky with the good hair Beyoncé Bodies fail of the day glamour win/fail