Now I’m confused — having a button nose ? Scottie Beam and Justine Skye’s features are considered “fine”. Interesting, I’d consider them more soft and rounded.I agree with what you’re saying, but when I think of women who benefit from featurism...Scottie Beam, Ananda Lewis, and Justine Skye’s features come to mind. The lady in your second picture wouldn’t benefit from featurism in the US.
See...here we go with the psychological manipulation aka gaslighting.Now I’m confused — having a button nose ? Scottie Beam and Justine Skye’s features are considered “fine”. Interesting, I’d consider them more soft and rounded.
People make fun of Sarah Jessica Parker for having a big ass nose, so many white girls I met were self-conscious about their noses being too big. (Their noses stick out, ours spread more on the face — but their noses are definitely not fine).
I’m not trying to gaslight. I’m actually just asking a question. No ones against you here.See...here we go with the psychological manipulation aka gaslighting.
You know goodness well that those women I mentioned don’t have a bell pepper nose, nor do they have a big nose like Sarah Jessica Parker. Yes, white people are self conscious about having bigger noses, and they will get a rhinoplasty in a heartbeat. I was mostly referring to their darker skin and hair texture. I don’t consider any of those black women to have big noses though.
Ryan Destiny admitted to being offended by featurism, because ignorant people would tell her that she’s pretty for a dark skinned girl.
If we're being honest...it isn't OG's black features that makes her face unattractive to ppl. It is possible to be black and ugly just like it is possible to have black features and be pretty.Umm black women with features that pass the Eurocentric beauty standard are perceived as more” attractive “ by racist and colorist than darker skin women who don’t .
Example : a light skin black woman made a video talking about how colourism is real and her dark skin friend experienced it from a white person. Both her and her friend were called monkeys but the white guy referred to the lighter skin one as the “pretty monkey” and the darker skin one as the “ugly monkey “.
Darker skin women with keen features that resemble Kristen from BBW are perceived to be “better “ than darker skin women with Og’s features.
Featurism makes dark skin women with type 3 hair and a slim nose seek “better” than darker skin women with wider noses and coarser hair .
Black is beautiful in ALL shades and FEATURES.
featurism can include weight imo.
I haven't watched the latest seasons of Basketball Wives but the discussions that have been surrounding it have things that irk me a little.
There's like a belief/narrative that dark skin women with black features and 4C hair are seen as "less" or "beneath" dark skin women with "white", "fine" features and wavy hair.
First of all, small features do not equal white ones. Plenty of Africans and black people can have "fine" features without looking white. That's not a white trait and most white people actually have medium to big noses.
Then second, "fine" features are not the only way to be pretty and I think that's why this aggravates me so much. It's worded as if to say black girls who don't look white and "pretty" with these so called small features, are outcasted as ugly, and that hasn't necessarily been my experience...
I'm dark skin (or brown skin I could call it but I don't think there's a difference. I'm not light.) with completely black features and 4C hair, and have been told I'm pretty countless times by black and white people. Ironically, I felt the same way from age 12-15 that people here feel, that I was less than the darkskin girls with "fine" features because that's all the media showed. But it didn't seem to stop people IRL from saying what they felt.
Basically my point is that people see beauty in black, nonwhite, nonfine features as well. The wording makes it seem like the only way to be seen as pretty if you're a dark skin girl is to look white, which is false.
Does my experience undermine that of other dark skin girls? No, I'm aware that several people out there dislike black girls with black features. I was just lucky not to live in such a place. Real life was a lot kinder to me than the colorist Internet forums and rap videos I looked at. And yes I have experienced racism, but none of this "being ignored over the black girl with white features" thing. If someone was racist, they hated you and having a thin nose did not stop that.
So to sum it up, no girls with 'black' features are not deemed as beneath 'white' ones, except by racists, who don't matter to me anyway.
I have never accepted featurism ever since it became social media popular and I never will.
To me, it's a crock of sh!t that ds colourism social media female humans came up with, it having been birthed out of their obsession that whites extend some white privilege to what whites define as Black people, who have white blood, and Black colourists extend ls privilege to what they define as Black who are lighter than a paper bag.
What featurism sounds like to me is ds colourism social media female humans begging whites that they want something too, even if it's some likes and looks when neither system -- racism or colourism, the Black and systematic white one -- are not about looks and likes, but about the colourist having the power to control.
If that's not the worst, they even have a cherry to put on top of that cake -- the chronic usage of eurocentric features, when whites probably take that talk like what in the fµck are the n words talking about now with this eurocentric thing?!
I just wish it would die, particularly using features and eurocentric in the same sentence, but because those social media folks need for it to live, they constantly breathe life into featurism, and into featurism and eurocentric being used in the same sentence. It just makes them look stupid, not just to me, but to whites too, because to them, which is where I get my info from, this racist sh!t is not about likes and looks, but about power and control no matter what spin ds's put on it.
That said, the only colourism that I acknowledge and accept are systematic white colourism and the paper bag colourism in their core, because both are real. I do not accept any additions that people add into it to fit their agenda, like that featurism mess, as well as the beauty competition mess when neither are about looks, but about white blood (swc) and skin lighter than a paper bag (the Black colourism).
I'm mean African American are mixed too lolI haven't watched the latest seasons of Basketball Wives but the discussions that have been surrounding it have things that irk me a little.
There's like a belief/narrative that dark skin women with black features and 4C hair are seen as "less" or "beneath" dark skin women with "white", "fine" features and wavy hair.
First of all, small features do not equal white ones. Plenty of Africans and black people can have "fine" features without looking white. That's not a white trait and most white people actually have medium to big noses.
Then second, "fine" features are not the only way to be pretty and I think that's why this aggravates me so much. It's worded as if to say black girls who don't look white and "pretty" with these so called small features, are outcasted as ugly, and that hasn't necessarily been my experience...
I'm dark skin (or brown skin I could call it but I don't think there's a difference. I'm not light.) with completely black features and 4C hair, and have been told I'm pretty countless times by black and white people. Ironically, I felt the same way from age 12-15 that people here feel, that I was less than the darkskin girls with "fine" features because that's all the media showed. But it didn't seem to stop people IRL from saying what they felt.
Basically my point is that people see beauty in black, nonwhite, nonfine features as well. The wording makes it seem like the only way to be seen as pretty if you're a dark skin girl is to look white, which is false.
Does my experience undermine that of other dark skin girls? No, I'm aware that several people out there dislike black girls with black features. I was just lucky not to live in such a place. Real life was a lot kinder to me than the colorist Internet forums and rap videos I looked at. And yes I have experienced racism, but none of this "being ignored over the black girl with white features" thing. If someone was racist, they hated you and having a thin nose did not stop that.
So to sum it up, no girls with 'black' features are not deemed as beneath 'white' ones, except by racists, who don't matter to me anyway.
pourquoiThere’s a lot of gaslighting going on in this thread, smh!
Thankfully, people are willing to discuss colorism, and maybe one day we can advance to openly acknowledge featurism.
I guess the Jackson’s had outrageous rhinoplasties for no reason, because featurism does not exist (sarcasm)...lmao!!!
Why? We are only allowed to post in English per LSA rules. Why are you writing in French? Lolpourquoi
OK but how ?I haven't watched the latest seasons of Basketball Wives but the discussions that have been surrounding it have things that irk me a little.
There's like a belief/narrative that dark skin women with black features and 4C hair are seen as "less" or "beneath" dark skin women with "white", "fine" features and wavy hair.
First of all, small features do not equal white ones. Plenty of Africans and black people can have "fine" features without looking white. That's not a white trait and most white people actually have medium to big noses.
Then second, "fine" features are not the only way to be pretty and I think that's why this aggravates me so much. It's worded as if to say black girls who don't look white and "pretty" with these so called small features, are outcasted as ugly, and that hasn't necessarily been my experience...
I'm dark skin (or brown skin I could call it but I don't think there's a difference. I'm not light.) with completely black features and 4C hair, and have been told I'm pretty countless times by black and white people. Ironically, I felt the same way from age 12-15 that people here feel, that I was less than the darkskin girls with "fine" features because that's all the media showed. But it didn't seem to stop people IRL from saying what they felt.
Basically my point is that people see beauty in black, nonwhite, nonfine features as well. The wording makes it seem like the only way to be seen as pretty if you're a dark skin girl is to look white, which is false.
Does my experience undermine that of other dark skin girls? No, I'm aware that several people out there dislike black girls with black features. I was just lucky not to live in such a place. Real life was a lot kinder to me than the colorist Internet forums and rap videos I looked at. And yes I have experienced racism, but none of this "being ignored over the black girl with white features" thing. If someone was racist, they hated you and having a thin nose did not stop that.
So to sum it up, no girls with 'black' features are not deemed as beneath 'white' ones, except by racists, who don't matter to me anyway.
I have heard it from gen z white kids.Girl where do you live?! I have never in my life heard a white person say light skinned.