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Nov 13, 2020

You had me until this tweet. You can't acknowledge that attractive ppl are often treated better w/o acknowledging that white ppl are often held as the standard of beauty. Thus, ppl who are attractive but not white still benefit from their looks less than attractive white ppl.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Nov 12, 2020

I'm not sayin all this is bad, that we should treat ppl equally, but I would like a greater acknowledgement and visibility. I'm not usually into 'privilege' conversations but this seems like the biggest unspoken privilege of our time, significantly greater than racial disparity

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I think predominantly white people are no longer held as standards of beauty in our culture, although white beauty is still present. I do agree that there is significant dating privilege among white women however

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I think white ppl are still the standard, they just have to be wearing the features associated with others (full lips, "fox eyes", voluptuous bodies, etc)

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@Aella_Girl

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@MtlTrash

How many features associated with others before the thing that's beautiful about you is no longer whiteness? Right now it seems like what actually is considered beautiful is a racially ambiguous half black-half-white-ish look. Calling that "white with black features" seems weird.

6:54 PM · Nov 13, 2020

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That racial ambiguity often times still denotes proximity to whiteness tho. My initial point remains, it's false and quite damaging to claim that beauty privilege is more prevalent than racial disparity when perception of beauty and race are so intertwined.

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It also denotes promixity to blackness? That's what ambiguity means. I don't think that this issue is 'one answer' - you can find examples of whiteness beauty in some areas and blackness beauty in others. I do agree they're often intertwined.

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