Comments on: The Sexualization of the “Dark Skinned Woman” http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/ Chit Chat About Desi Stuff Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:48:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yumna http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-11761 Yumna Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:38:22 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-11761 @Nisha - thanks for your comment. It is very true about the matrimonial ads. People want fair skinned bahu's for their dark son's. Quite the double standard, and so much emphasis is put on a woman's skin colour that it is hard not to let it affect one's self esteem when everyone is constantly making references to it. @Nisha – thanks for your comment. It is very true about the matrimonial ads. People want fair skinned bahu’s for their dark son’s. Quite the double standard, and so much emphasis is put on a woman’s skin colour that it is hard not to let it affect one’s self esteem when everyone is constantly making references to it.

]]> By: nisha http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-11759 nisha Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:00:10 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-11759 This is because Indian society has such a childlike mind. There's no point in arguing with stupidity. I'm Indian but I'm sick of the matrimonial ads I see for fair skin daughters for these parents' butt ugly sons. Their sons can be dark but their future daughter in law has to be fair? wtf. And the Indian media....I saw vivah and I was sickened how the mother treated her dark daughter...trying to make her fair all the time like her step sister. It was sick. I'd like to see a dark actress in bollywood play the lead role of an innocent girl and I'd like to see the light skin girl play a trampy role. Skin color has nothing to do with sexual promiscuity. Look at all the bollywood actresses..most of them are tramps and vamps in real life. This is because Indian society has such a childlike mind. There’s no point in arguing with stupidity. I’m Indian but I’m sick of the matrimonial ads I see for fair skin daughters for these parents’ butt ugly sons. Their sons can be dark but their future daughter in law has to be fair? wtf. And the Indian media….I saw vivah and I was sickened how the mother treated her dark daughter…trying to make her fair all the time like her step sister. It was sick. I’d like to see a dark actress in bollywood play the lead role of an innocent girl and I’d like to see the light skin girl play a trampy role. Skin color has nothing to do with sexual promiscuity. Look at all the bollywood actresses..most of them are tramps and vamps in real life.

]]> By: Yumna http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-9038 Yumna Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:43:32 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-9038 Lot's of people actually. They show a commercial that shows the 'lightening' of the skin and at the beginning you she a sad/dark guy, and by the end you see a fair/happy guy. Lot’s of people actually. They show a commercial that shows the ‘lightening’ of the skin and at the beginning you she a sad/dark guy, and by the end you see a fair/happy guy.

]]> By: Rihana http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 Rihana Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:37:54 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-2483 What?! "fair and handsome" ahahaha that's too funny! I did not know that. Wonder how many ppl fall for that. That's just too much! :-) What?! “fair and handsome” ahahaha that’s too funny! I did not know that. Wonder how many ppl fall for that. That’s just too much! :-)

]]> By: Yumna http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Yumna Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:24:16 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-1041 That is exactly it! These thoughts are so deeply embedded that we take them as 'normal'. The associations we make with certain colours, forget skin colour, but even the colour of clothes we wear often dicated peoples opinions. Why is that? If a woman is wearing red lipstick, why does it send out a negative message? What is the reasoning behind it that an association was built to a particular colour. Now apply that logic to skin colour and attributes that are applied to it accordingly. We are so used to it that we see nothing wrong in it. As far as guys are concerned, now even they are being taken over in another sense--capitalism & marketing. The cream to make a woman fairer is now available every where for men in Pakistan and Indian in the form of "fair and handsome". That is exactly it! These thoughts are so deeply embedded that we take them as ‘normal’. The associations we make with certain colours, forget skin colour, but even the colour of clothes we wear often dicated peoples opinions. Why is that? If a woman is wearing red lipstick, why does it send out a negative message? What is the reasoning behind it that an association was built to a particular colour. Now apply that logic to skin colour and attributes that are applied to it accordingly.

We are so used to it that we see nothing wrong in it.

As far as guys are concerned, now even they are being taken over in another sense–capitalism & marketing. The cream to make a woman fairer is now available every where for men in Pakistan and Indian in the form of “fair and handsome”.

]]> By: Rihana http://www.desigupshup.com/2008/10/the-sexualization-of-the-dark-skinned-woman/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Rihana Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:42:28 +0000 http://www.desigupshup.com/?p=667#comment-540 Never thought of it in this sense. Guess I've just been programmed heavily by media to notice any of these underlying themes :-) Good point! What about men? "Tall dark and handsome"! Never thought of it in this sense. Guess I’ve just been programmed heavily by media to notice any of these underlying themes :-) Good point! What about men? “Tall dark and handsome”!

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