# Here's a stupid GQ - do Latina ladies actually carry razor blades in their hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619 "2011-10-04T22:03:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/1 "2011-10-04T22:03:36Z")
So really, it doesn’t have to be just Latina ladies - it’s just that particular group I’ve heard this about. Does anyone carry razor blades in their hair? And by anyone I mean a sufficient number of anyones that a meme has been created because of it? I mean, they referenced it on _Glee_ for Pete’s sake. So is this a real thing? Or just a silly made up thing? If it is real, how exactly would a person do that without cutting themselves to shreds? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/2 "2011-10-05T00:57:45Z")
An old blues song warns us against Texas women, 'cause they carry a razor and a gun. It’s just a song, though. An old-fashioned straight razor can be carried safely until it’s unfolded. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/3 "2011-10-05T01:08:09Z")
Marginally related: A co-worker (from Puerto Rico if it matters) once told me and the others that when he lived in New York he used to tape a razor blade to one of his fingers when he rode the subway. We just assumed he was full of shit. But maybe… ---
**Author:** ![BeachBum2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@BeachBum2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeachBum2U)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/4 "2011-10-05T19:00:30Z")
Wow, bad memory… back in the 60’s in Detroit when street gangs with chains were still something other than in a movie, a lot of the Hispanic girl gangs carried stelleto (sp) switchblades, they wore beehive hair do’s to hide them in - razor blades were used as well, carried in… you’re not going to believe this… boiled potatoes. So yes, the above references are true and correct. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/5 "2011-10-05T19:48:26Z")
[Related thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=590196) from last year. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/6 "2011-10-05T22:01:27Z")
There’s that famous song from the 60s: _If you’re going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some razor blades in your hair If you’re going to San Francisco You’re gonna meet some scary-ass gang-bangers there_ ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/7 "2011-10-05T22:08:24Z")
> [@BeachBum2U](#): > > Wow, bad memory.. I wasn’t actually born in the 60s, so I believe my memory is not the issue here. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/8 "2011-10-05T22:33:18Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > I wasn’t actually born in the 60s, so I believe my memory is not the issue here. I think he was saying that the topic brought back an unpleasant (bad) memory from his past. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/9 "2011-10-05T23:42:03Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > I think he was saying that the topic brought back an unpleasant (bad) memory from his past. Ahh - well that would make much more sense and would seem to confirm my OP. How…odd. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/10 "2011-10-06T00:01:27Z")
> [@BeachBum2U](#): > > razor blades were used as well, carried in.. you’re not going to believe this.. boiled potatoes. So yes, the above references are true and correct. Why boiled potatoes? They are soft and mushy. Seems like a raw potato would be a better makeshift handle to hold a razor blade. That makes me wonder if this really is “true and correct”. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/11 "2011-10-06T01:03:20Z")
My room mate says its pure unmitigated bullshit, and he’s the Original Homie. He enlisted in ’69 because he felt that his odds were better in ‘Nam than in his East LA high school. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/12 "2011-10-06T17:53:37Z")
Stay clear of Polk-Salad Annie. She’s mean, straight-razor-carrryin’ woman. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/13 "2011-10-06T18:21:27Z")
Okay, so I’ve got a razor blade. I stick it in this boiled potato like so… then I put it on top of my head… Wait, it’s not going to stay. Maybe if I take a little bite out of it. There we go! Now I’ll wind my hair around it, jab in a couple of bobby pins… okay. If I walk slow, should be fine. Here come those bitches now that are always picking on me. They say my hair looks especially stupid today, and I think they have a point. However, you can’t let people get away with that kind of thing, so here goes. I shake my head menacingly, and the potato slides way over to one side. It’s still hanging in there, so I reach up and grab it. Ow, ow, ow, friggin bobby pins… _God_ it makes me mad when I pull my own hair! But I have my potato. There’s the part with the bite taken out, so the razor blade must be over here on the other side. Yeah, I think I see a little slit. Hold on, hold on… Can’t grip it. I’ll just scrabble around a little here…never gonna get this potato out from under my nails. Oh! Oh fuck! I’m afraid to look but I think I cut my damn finger off! At least the blade fell out. I shall kick it defiantly towards these laughing hyena bitches as I jam this potato on my spouting finger and run home. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/14 "2011-10-06T18:34:54Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Okay, so I’ve got a razor blade… I shall kick it defiantly towards these laughing hyena bitches as I jam this potato on my spouting finger and run home. Well, you just proved **BeachBum2U** right. > [@BeachBum2U](#): > > you’re not going to believe this.. At least that part is true and correct. I’m from the South, so I carry my razor blade in a sweet potato. And I keep a gun in my okra. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/15 "2011-10-06T19:00:27Z")
Fascinating. Totally OT, but Dr. John claims in his autobiography he used to carry a straight razor between his buttocks at Angola. Obviously (? no, emphatic!) it doesn’t hurt when closed “for safety.” ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/16 "2011-10-06T19:47:58Z")
I just asked my SO (who is Mexican and grew up in Vegas around gangs) if this was true or if he ever heard of it being once true, and he just stared at me like I was an idiot. So at least in his experience, no. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/17 "2011-10-06T19:56:17Z")
Given your username, maybe he thought you were trying to set him up. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/18 "2011-10-06T20:09:45Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Fascinating. > > Totally OT, but Dr. John claims in his autobiography he used to carry a straight razor between his buttocks at Angola. Obviously (? no, emphatic!) it doesn’t hurt when closed “for safety.” Some people aren’t cool enough to pull off carrying razors in their ass, and then act all butthurt about it. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/19 "2011-10-06T20:14:34Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Given your username, maybe he thought you were trying to set him up. Okay, he has now clarified that his sister doesn’t, his mother didn’t, his grandmother didn’t, and none of his cousins did/do. In fact he’d never heard of such a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619/20 "2011-10-07T01:43:06Z")
lacortadora needs to check in here. I’ll see if she’s around. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/heres-a-stupid-gq-do-latina-ladies-actually-carry-razor-blades-in-their-hair/598619.md?page=2)