Yes, tanning is evil, and comes with a definitive set of consequences. Even if you manage to dodge the cancer part of it, there is no way around the accelerated aging that it causes. Naturally brown skin ages better than pale skin, but tanned skin is going to age worse than pale skin that has been protected from the sun.
The ridiculous part of the whole "you are too pale, you need to tan" line of thinking is that people who are sufficiently pale to elicit such a response CAN'T TAN!!
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Originally Posted by wigglewhiz
The major issue? It's my SKIN COLOUR. There is absolutely no way anyone would get away with saying "Oh honey, if only you were a little more white" to a woman of colour.
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Except unfortunately it happens of course; there is more prejudice against very dark brown women as opposed to ligher brown in many societies, certainly with African American women, and I have also been told by Indian students at my university that there is skin-color prejudice among the Indian students (there are caste issues intertwined with skin color here also, but still, it's all crap). Its just that it is a more serious type of prejudice, so people are not going to mouth off nonchalantly about it they way they tell pale people to tan.