beauty

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Does beauty trump race?

 

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Source: racelessgospel.com

 

Condado Does beauty trump race? 

 

http://czechinthekitchen.com/2021/09/01/ahhh-its-september-how-the-hell-did-that-just-happen/?share=pinterest Or does it depend? 

 

Is there more favor for beautiful people in general – regardless of race?

 

Is there more discrimination against ugly people – regardless of race?

 

Do we talk about discrimination against ugly people?

 

If not – why?

 

Don’t say because beauty is subjective. ‘Cause you know, Hollywood knows, and the music industry knows who’s beautiful (who sells tickets) regardless of race.

 

We know that individuals have preferences, but I’m talking the big picture. I mean the standard things like symmetry, even skin tone (without blemishes), and people who are not too skinny, not too fat, not too short, not too tall – these perfect middle of the road beauties. They have privilege. But more importantly, those who do not fit these perfect middle of the road norms are discriminated against – and we don’t talk about it. Why don’t we talk about it.

 

I think there is something deep here. Some prejudice that our whole society has that we don’t talk about. We celebrate beauty like crazy but we don’t talk about discrimination against the less beautiful.

 

I think the positive treatment of the beautiful and the discrimination against the less beautiful has a compounding effect over a person’s lifetime.

 

I think discrimination against the less beautiful can lead some of them toward depression, drugs, crime, incarceration. I think this is a big issue that no one talks about.

 

Yes, people have more to their identity then just their beauty or lack of it. But our society (Western Society) places a lot of emphasis on celebrating beauty. But how much time do we spend acknowledging that less beautiful people are being discriminated against all the time?

 

I say, add beauty to the intersectional graph and let’s stop pretending that it’s not a serious factor in people’s lives.

 

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Touch your own hair. (yes, still)

 

“Why am I still talking about this?

 

This is a picture of me from 2007. I made these t-shirts back then, and you can still buy them here.

 

The phrase is a sentiment I began to feel much earlier of course, sometime in my early youth when the kids and teachers in my mostly-white school poked and prodded at me from everything from my skin, to my hair, to getting tan, to why my hair didn’t look the same as theirs when it was wet. Curiosities that expressed once or twice can be dismissed as the process of learning and growth of youth, but when expressed daily, continually, become instead the failure of an educational system that allows some children to remain ignorant of those with whom they share their classrooms.

 

But then it continued, well into my teenage years, adulthood, and now *cough* middle-age—right up to yesterday.

 

I don’t feel like describing the idiot in the grocery store who got angry at me when I was not flattered by his attention to my hair…because, sure my expectations for “regular” people might be too high. Instead let me tell you that two days ago, I was talking to a black friend in academia whose boss (yes, boss), in front of a group at a work-related event (yes, in-front of everyone) grabbed her hair and commented on it (yep).

 

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Community Village‘s insight:

 

Now I understand why my wife got mad at me when I moved her bangs from her forehead and asked other ladies to comment if she looked better without bangs.

 

*woops!*

 

🙁

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Gym told me I had to wear more than this

A California woman says she was asked to cover up while working out at her gym because she was intimidating people.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

How is really harassing who here?

See on www.cnn.com

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Your “Preference” is Not Preferable: The History and Harm of Asian Fetishism

**Disclaimer:  In this article I focus on the fetishization of Asian females. I acknowledge that there are prevalent fetishes of other races and they are just as problematic. I acknowledge that I c…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I love this article and I love it’s title.

 

Plus it’s an important topic for supporters of racial justice.

 

It covers:

 

  • What fetishism is
  • What about preferences? What if someone just happens to be attracted to a certain race?
  • Why are racial fetishes, especially Asian fetishes, such a widespread thing?
  • “I’m not sure if I have a racial fetish. How can I tell?”
  • The problems and consequences of racial fetishization
  • What can we do about racial fetishization?

See on mixedamericanlife.wordpress.com

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Lupita Nyong’o Wins Oscar For Role in “12 Years a Slave”

 

“Lupita Nyongo’s image was recently altered in Vanity Fair magazine to lighten her skin tone. But as you can see in these photos, she’s absolutely beautiful just as she is. And she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress! ”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I love that Nyongo won and that Halle Berry had won for Monsters Ball in a previous year.

But what does it say about the U.S. that Black women only win an Oscar if the role they win for was when they were playing the abused or disrespected Black woman.

Next, I want to see an Oscar awarded to a Black woman for playing a role where she’s not being abused or disrespected.

And a curious double standard in U.S. culture is how the U.S. is mostly modest in terms of covering our bodies, even on the vast majority of beaches. However, these two women only won their awards after their bodies were bared on screen.

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Mindy Kaling on the cover of Elle

Mindy Kaling, best known for being in “The Office” (2005-2013) and “The Mindy Kaling Project” (2012- ) on American television, made the cover of the February 2014 issue of Elle magazine in America….

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Weight Stereotyping

Weight Stereotyping article from Glamour Health and Diet by Sharon Dreisbach.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

People are always judging people, and often the judgements are wrong.

 

@getgln

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Miss America 2014, Miss New York Answers Question About Julie Chen’s Eyes

Miss New York Crowned Miss America 2014 Miss New York Nina Davuluri was asked by Carla Hall about Julie Chen’s decision to have plastic surgery about making …

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

She didn’t answer the question – and she still won.

 

 

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Julie Chen’s Anti-Asian Surgery Admission

“…plastic surgeons profit from racist standards of beauty…”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

In the U.S. it seems to be standard for everyone to get braces – unless they already have perfect teeth.

 

@getgln

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