Jesus, they don't know how upsetting it is to be Hispanic (or any other POC I'm just going with my experience) and not seeing any representation. I felt ugly and I had a low self esteem because I always felt that I wasn't pretty because I wasn't white. I would wish for blue eyes and pretty blonde hair. Representation is a serious thing, and I see how its positively it's affecting younger generations (cousins) to see POC dolls! Even tho they aren't everywhere it's more than I had and IT HELPS
oh my god this was my childhood too? its so devastating to learn that there are dozens apon hundreds of people who feel/felt the same. i was always envious of white girls with blond hair and blue eyes and "fair porcelain skin"? like that was all i wanted bc i never saw things saying brown hair, skin, and eyes were beautiful, not in dolls, cartoons, songs, movies, n o t h i n g!!! let alone being bullied by racist white kids wasn't enough, media never helped me to see myself as beautiful, ever. i didn't learn to love myself and my gorgeous skin, dark eyes, and kick ass hair till my late teens? and i still struggle with it today? like white people don't fucking understand how devastating it is to want to kill yourself as a child because you don't look like what everyone else thinks is the only way to be beautiful, and they never fucking will!!! being made fun of bc youre dark or have darker hair growing in places that aren't """"""normal""""" (im looking at you white girls who make fun of ppl with dark lip hair/dark arm hair, i fucking see you and i fucking hate you) it fucking sucks. its soul crushing bc you cant control it, esp not when youre young. but no? kids dont see color!! not at all!! they cant tell!! fuck off. kids are smart and they pick up on that shit. just because you mayostains dont notice because you're fuckin everywhere, doesn't mean children of color dont, bc they DO. it breaks my heart when my little cousins talk abt wanting lighter hair and eyes bc they're not reassured by media (directed at their demographic EVEN) that they're beautiful just the way they are, brown skin and all. and ill fucking fight you if you dare say that they don't notice and representation doesn't matter bc it does, more than you'll ever dream to understand, you ignorant sacks of birdshit.