Random Philosophical Thought #3
I don’t like how when I draw something I automatically expect to give it light coloured skin. What is up with that? As a child, no more than six years old, your told draw a self portrait. But you don’t draw you, you draw what society wants. I drew a light skinned a girl with big eyes, straight black hair and red lips.
But that’s not what I look like. I have darker skin than that, and my eyes are almonds, not walnuts! Also, I don’t have strawberry lips. I have coconut ones. And my hair isn’t straight, its curly, never tamed and constantly messy. So why? Why do we impose the image that little girls have to follow rules, big eyes, big lips, straight hair and clear skin?
And I know that we’ve come further and faster to rescue the girls that want to change how they look. But it isn’t enough. When you go to Asia, you see girls dolled up in their cultural clothes, but wearing a hideous white powder to make them look lighter.
Why? Are they not beautiful enough? Are they not powerful enough with their own skin? Are they not beautiful creatures with hidden world and wonders an spectacles hidden in their hearts, only to be covered up with a grotesque white powder to westernise them?
What has the world become, if little girls, dark, mixed or light, must constantly bow to to the norm that is big lips, big eyes, unmarred skin and a beautiful body?
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