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Originally Posted by ssipes
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.
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I ranted about this on my LJ a few months ago. Light skinned women are told to tan; dark skin women are told to lighten. What is this mysterious skin colour that we're all aiming for? I suspected that only one woman in the world has acheived it, and that woman is Victoria Beckham.
Having a tan is an enjoyable novelty for me, and I will fake it for a performance (I've got some lovely shimmery body lotion), but the rest of the time I am happy to be pale and a bit goth-looking.