# Gorilla Glue in hair = bad, bad, bad idea **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557 "2021-02-09T20:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/101 "2021-02-12T20:19:57Z")
Let’s just say posting that video was a mixed blessing. It got her the help she needed, along with a lot of other shit she didn’t need. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/102 "2021-02-12T22:34:36Z")
I’m glad she’s smart enough to not try to pursue a payday for this brain glitch (still not the brightest thing to do, but she’s showing more dignity about it than a lot of people would). Hope things work out well for her from here. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/103 "2021-02-13T01:48:47Z")
Let’s leave it to [these professionals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9SWB1usr0M) to explain why you should always be sensible with super adhesives. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/104 "2021-02-13T03:40:44Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Hey, the phrase “bad, bad, bad” is ® to Beck. Didn’t you know that? I have to admit when I saw the thread title I thought, “What’s happened to Beck now?” and was hoping it was a niece or granddaughter. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/105 "2021-02-13T04:57:07Z")
Y’know, that also brings up, people often assume that hiring for a PR agent or legal counsel is somehow indicative of less than pure motives. When it is just a sensible thing to do if you are suddenly in the public eye. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/106 "2021-02-13T15:37:52Z")
If our society were sensible, it would be the hair-care product manufacturers that would be making changes. The manufacturers of actual glue shouldn’t have to bear that burden. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/107 "2021-02-13T15:52:23Z")
My understanding is that this mess and the lack of understanding about it stems from the trouble that Black women need to go through to manage their hair. The photo attached to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/JenniferRoseNYC/status/1359218389823197186/photo/1) shows hair care products with honey, olive oil and mayonnaise in their names, in addition to the product with glue in its name that this woman ran out of. (FYI, I’m not a Black woman but [this USA Today article](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2021/02/10/gorilla-glue-hairspray-tessica-brown-highlights-issues-black-beauty-care/6702793002/) was instructive.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/108 "2021-02-13T18:04:12Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > My understanding is that this mess and the lack of understanding about it stems from the trouble that Black women need to go through to manage their hair. The photo attached to [this tweet](https://twitter.com/JenniferRoseNYC/status/1359218389823197186/photo/1) shows hair care products with honey, olive oil and mayonnaise in their names, in addition to the product with glue in its name that this woman ran out of. Bullshit. Millions of Black women manage to get through life without ever putting actual workshop glue on their heads. In fact, almost all of them, until now. Some people are just plain stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/109 "2021-02-13T18:10:46Z")
I think the point of the USA Today article is that if you’re wondering why she would even _think_ of using something other than a real hair care product, it’s because Black women sometimes use unconventional products to manage and style their hair. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/110 "2021-02-13T20:41:11Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Bullshit. Millions of Black women manage to get through life without ever putting actual workshop glue on their heads. In fact, almost all of them, until now. Some people are just plain stupid. My mama taught me that you should help stupid people who wind up in a problem because they ain’t as smart as the rest of us and mocking them was definitely out. What did your mama teach you? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/111 "2021-02-13T21:02:48Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > My mama taught me that you should help stupid people who wind up in a problem because they ain’t as smart as the rest of us and mocking them was definitely out. > > What did your mama teach you?  To read the post the person was responding to before jumping in with non sequiturs. Or show me where I said we shouldn’t help stupid people. Did your mama teach you reading comprehension skills? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/112 "2021-02-13T21:05:42Z")
Dismissing her as “just plain stupid” displays no empathy whatsoever. I’m not going to attempt to explain why hair is such an issue for Black woman because, first of all, it’s not my place or appropriate to do so, and secondly, I am so effing glad that up until now I’ve made MY dumb mistakes before the age of social media so there’s a chance they won’t haunt me for the rest of my life. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/113 "2021-02-13T21:13:01Z")
I don’t see why she needs my empathy. Stupid is as stupid does. If she didn’t want to be mocked, she shouldn’t have posted it on TikTok. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/114 "2021-02-13T21:29:38Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Dismissing her as “just plain stupid” displays no empathy whatsoever. Again, you managed not to see who and what I was responding to. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/115 "2021-02-13T22:10:37Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I don’t see why she needs my empathy. Stupid is as stupid does. If she didn’t want to be mocked, she shouldn’t have posted it on TikTok. Eh, I haven’t seen her post, but it doesn’t sound like it was a stupid post. She just got unlucky that it went viral. I still think it’s weird that she needed medical help for glue in her hair, but what the heck, she got it, and she’s okay now. I don’t think this happened to her “because she’s black”. That seems like a stretch. Lots of people do lots of misguided things every day. Some of them make the news. If it was a white man who did something dumb with hair products we wouldn’t be here debating the difficulties white people face with their hair. And lots of white women use stuff that’s not in a “hair care” aisle, too – lots of not-quite-blond girls of my acquaintance bleached their hair with lemon juice when I was a kid, for instance. For that matter, my BIL had to cut off all his hair after shaping his mohawk with glue. But no one heard his story and said, “oh, that’s a white man thing”. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/116 "2021-02-14T15:58:56Z")
Tessica is donating most of the money to a charity, Restore, a charity that offers reconstructive surgery to the needy. I’m glad she’s already paying it forward the help she received. > **[‘Gorilla Glue girl’ Tessica Brown donating $20K from GoFundMe to charity](https://nypost.com/2021/02/14/gorilla-glue-girl-tessica-brown-donating-20k-from-gofundme/)** > > She’s sticking by others. Gorilla Glue girl Tessica Brown is donating more than $20,000 that was raised for her online to a charity started by the plastic surgeon who finally freed her locks,… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/117 "2021-02-14T22:04:10Z")
I thought this girl was beyond stupid, but now I know I was judging too fast. Everyone has done something foolish, including myself. With this donation I realize she has a good heart, and that I was wrong to look down on her. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/118 "2021-02-14T23:59:20Z")
I mentioned on Facebook that it’s too bad Dave Barry isn’t still doing his weekly column, because he’d have had a field day with this story. ---
**Author:** ![staili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@staili](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/staili)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/119 "2021-02-15T00:50:32Z")
This is probably the least likely heartwarming story of the year, but I give her a lot of credit for making such a large donation (she’s only keeping $1000 out of the $20,000+ that GoFundMe raised). She’s also made a merchandise line about the incident, which shows she can laugh about the whole thing and doesn’t take herself too seriously. She’s pretty savvy about how to make lemonade when life hands you lemons. More power to her. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557/120 "2021-02-15T01:17:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I think the point of the USA Today article is that if you’re wondering why she would even _think_ of using something other than a real hair care product, it’s because Black women sometimes use unconventional products to manage and style their hair. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I don’t think this happened to her “because she’s black”. That seems like a stretch. Lots of people do lots of misguided things every day. > [@Baker](#): > > I thought this girl was beyond stupid, but now I know I was judging too fast. Everyone has done something foolish, including myself. With this donation I realize she has a good heart, and that I was wrong to look down on her. The kind of brain-freeze phenomenon where, e.g., a person can grab the wrong spray can, look over the label, and be _sure_ it is hair spray is well known and has been studied by psychologists since the days of Wilhelm Wundt. It is not indicative of intelligence or lack thereof. Whoever saw the original video, is that what she said happened? But the fact that some racist joker mysteriously started talking about black hair care products or Black culture and such an article completely coincidentally appeared in the newspaper and is associated with this incident is not too surprising. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorilla-glue-in-hair-bad-bad-bad-idea/932557.md?page=7)