This is what happens when a guy can't calm himself if he needs q date with the lady imagine someone saying you would look prettier after bleaching, when you already riper than the pawpaw
22-year-old Takara Allen had
one such moment. She shared a screenshot of a
conversation with her Tinder date who
suggested she bleach her skin so as to look
whiter and prettier.
The make-up artist, who lives in Adelaide,
Australia, says she was left 'devastated' after
being told she would look so much prettier if
she was whiter.
After sharing the exchange, Takara vented her
outrage in a long post on Facebook.
She wrote: 'What goes on in people's heads that
makes them think this is okay to say to
someone?
'As if people of colour don't already struggle
enough with the pressure to conform to
Eurocentric beauty ideals and standards, people
like this add even more.'
Takara also ridiculed the man's claim that he
didn't mean to cause her offence.
'How the F*** is this not offensive in your
head?!' she wrote. 'Like literally how can you
come to the conclusion that this is even true?
'I've grown up hearing "You'd be prettier if you
were lighter" and "You're pretty for a black girl,"
as if black women are just generally
unattractive, and so it's a surprise when one of
us is.'
Takara addressed the Tinder message again in a
message posted on her Facebook page
yesterday.
She said: 'This is a huge issue we deal with
when dating/navigating the world in general and
the darker you are the worse it gets.
'Black people's beauty is tied directly to
blackness. We are not beautiful *in spite* of
being black but rather *because* we're black.
Don't get it twisted.'
22-year-old Takara Allen had
one such moment. She shared a screenshot of a
conversation with her Tinder date who
suggested she bleach her skin so as to look
whiter and prettier.
The make-up artist, who lives in Adelaide,
Australia, says she was left 'devastated' after
being told she would look so much prettier if
she was whiter.
After sharing the exchange, Takara vented her
outrage in a long post on Facebook.
She wrote: 'What goes on in people's heads that
makes them think this is okay to say to
someone?
'As if people of colour don't already struggle
enough with the pressure to conform to
Eurocentric beauty ideals and standards, people
like this add even more.'
Takara also ridiculed the man's claim that he
didn't mean to cause her offence.
'How the F*** is this not offensive in your
head?!' she wrote. 'Like literally how can you
come to the conclusion that this is even true?
'I've grown up hearing "You'd be prettier if you
were lighter" and "You're pretty for a black girl,"
as if black women are just generally
unattractive, and so it's a surprise when one of
us is.'
Takara addressed the Tinder message again in a
message posted on her Facebook page
yesterday.
She said: 'This is a huge issue we deal with
when dating/navigating the world in general and
the darker you are the worse it gets.
'Black people's beauty is tied directly to
blackness. We are not beautiful *in spite* of
being black but rather *because* we're black.
Don't get it twisted.'
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