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Pressure to look a certain way
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03-06-2010, 07:38 AM
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AnypecekceS
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I think all races of women have it bad. I could say in different ways, but the "ideal" look for all races go in the same direction.
In broad classifications,
White women: Barbie (Blonde, impossibly thin, blue eyes).
Black women: Good hair, light skin, reasonably "thick" (not Monique fat or Jessica White thin)
Asian women: "Fair" skin, double eyelid surgery
Not sure about Latina women (i.e. mixed white/native types in the americas) but I can imagine that it would fall in a mid-point of the pressures mounted on white and black women. Same for other in-between races as well
Now, there is a difference between pressure and
succumbing
to pressure - not all white women want to be blonde, blue-eyed and model-thin, and many black women would not trade their dark skin and African hair for anything else.
Another question is who, or what, creates this pressure? Fellow women? Media? Men? A mixture? Nature?
I pick the fourth possibility, with men holding slightly more influence over other causes.
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