Catharsis

Rotundlr: Beauty Whitewashed: How White Ideals Exclude Women of Color

utterlyfubar:

internal-acceptance-movement:

While we talk a lot about harmful media beauty ideals like extreme thinness, appearance-focused “fitness,” sex appeal, and photoshopping phoniness, one of the most oppressive ideals excludes anyone who isn’t … white. We call it the whitewashing of beauty.

I have to admit my naivete here.  I honestly, truly, thought that most of the time, it was a case of a tan/not a tan or different lighting.  I mean, I know my skin looks different in different lighting, so I didn’t think anything of it.

I’d wager a guess that I’m not the only one that originally thought that, but I’m glad to have pieces like this to edumacate myself.

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    Kinda like instagram
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    While we talk a lot about harmful media beauty ideals like extreme thinness, appearance-focused “fitness,” sex appeal,...
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    I call it fucking disgusting. She looks like shit as a white woman, I love her complection.
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    Wow. To actually see it 0_o
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    Oh girl.
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    BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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