Why do people lie, get defensive, deflect about this issue? We have ignorance in our community as it pertains to skin tone.
Get over it. And yes white supremacist media has brainwashed a lot of blacks, especially black men b/c color connotations are engendered.
It only impacts black women more b/c beauty is such a huge part of female identity based on the fukked up world we live in. Thus dark skin gets added to the list of reasons why people call black women masculine. Like the surrogate internet daddy Heaven Scamuels did.
Telling people they just ugly or need to get over it is stupid, when we also need to tell the ignorant self-hating fukks that they are mentally screwed too.
But really a lot of this is about changing culture and society and we aren’t the only community dealing with this.