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Not sure that's been proven for tanning lotions, though.
When white people tan it is a prelude to skin cancer.
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?
The reason white people tan themselves is because, at least in my day...it was thought to look healthy, and also a bit sexy.
I don't think equating this to black face has any basis in reality.
Not sure that's been proven for tanning lotions, though.
We are also random people posting on a social media forum. :shrug:
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?
Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.
I was being sarcastic with a small bit of truth. This entire conversation seems absurd to me. As do almost all conversations about skin color. The exception, dark skinned people being warned they too can get sunburn and suffer skin cancer later in life as a result. Tanning lotions encourage people to sit or lie in the sunlight, not a healthy option. While sunlight helps us manufacture vitamin D and other nutrients, like all actions in excess, not beneficial. What is excessive? To be determined.
Yeah, but does anyone bring quotes from here to Twitter and make them topics? Wouldn't that be a little weird?
This is evidence itself the site doesn’t always discuss things that are actually important
The reason white people tan themselves is because, at least in my day...it was thought to look healthy, and also a bit sexy.
I don't think equating this to black face has any basis in reality.
By tanning lotions, I meant lotions that tan you without the sun.
And how did it happen anyway that what random people post on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram has become important enough to bring to a discussion site?
Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.
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How blatantly dishonest.
You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.
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How blatantly dishonest.
You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.
That's how I see it. If you're darkening it because you believe darker skin is more beautiful, I don't see that as racist. Blackface was when people would darken their skin to poke fun at black people, not because they thought it made them more attractive.
However, in my opinion, most of these women look much better as their natural self. I was watching one famous beauty youtuber the other day and she was talking about the outfit she had on. Her shirt was a little short and she said to pay no attention to her pale stomach -- she only self-tans her chest, arms and legs in the winter time. How ridiculous she must look naked.
Not sure if it's still a thing, but not long ago Asians were bleaching their skin to be more "white", and having surgery on their eyes to have more "western" appearing eyes.
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How blatantly dishonest.
You know perfectly well this isn't a "makeup/fashion thread", but is instead a transparently hamfisted attempt to jeer at people who take issue with white people putting on actual blackface.
Truthfully, I've always admired people with darker skin tones, particularly carmel and olive hues. Then again, I'm as pasty white as a snowball and have always thought myself as blonde, bland and unattractive. Even when I was a young woman with a fairly nice figure, I never wore bikinis because I was sure the sun's reflection bouncing off my bleached-out body would blind everyone in the area, lol.
Isn't it amazing how some progressives will deny the existence of common, widespread, easily verified leftist phenomenon? The left's increasingly radical "cancel culture" is playing out regularly on college campuses, mainstream "news" media anchor desks and the pages of print media. Practically every day there's new examples of "progressive" activists, journalists and politicians digging up someone's old social media comments, that don't strictly adhere to modern leftist 'sensibilities'.
Then they WIDELY spread the "horrible words" made by someone in a social media post long ago. They twist and spin the narrative, exaggerating the "speech-crime". Then they rile up the progressive base, who Immediately DEMAND that the perpetrator's life be ruined, fired from their job, kicked out of school, demonized on social media, thrown out of their apartments, and symbolically tarred and feathered in a VERY public way! The whole thing is an insidious political intimidation strategy, designed to shut down public discourse and dissent against their ideology. .
Or for simply using a word that activists have recently deemed unacceptable! The notion of "cultural appropriation" is one of many examples, where they write articles, and have roundtable discussions on the "evil" of allowing your white kid to dress in a friggin Black Panther Halloween costume!
Here's a video from CBS, which touches on this. It's one of many videos on leftist cancel culture:
It could have been, sigh. I guess you've learned your lesson. We're down to "right-wing" and "beauty blog" in the same sentence. Good grief. :doh
Just every so often there is a makeup/fashion thread. You can always choose not to participate.
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