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It's true. Wasn't shade.
Yall be dimes. But while you try to counter anti blackness/white supremacist standards of beauty with pro dark skinned beauty (unconventional beauty), a lot of times the girls contour their noses smaller/slimmer, wear makeup, add in hair, photoshop pics, wear contacts, only show their bodies/skin (and heavily oiled in an objectification gaze) basically still changing how they look normally to be appealing ( to conventional beauty standards).

We usually see a certain type of dark skinned chick getting shine. Rarely are we seeing a Viola Davis or Gabourey Sidibe.

I remember this old Essence interview with Tyra Banks and Kenya Moore (who are friends) and Tyra said how the industry assumed she had long hair because she was lighter while they always wrote off Kenya Moore's hair as a weave, when the truth was the opposite. It was due to colorism and people not believing that a dark skinned woman can have long hair. Kenya Moore is a prime example of overcompensation (and it could be due to her childhood and lack of a relationship with her parents, particularly her mother & being dark skinned as she admitted). She entered pageants, she was known as a sex symbol, has a 6 pack, big breasts, fat ass, fit body, successful. But she also can not have children. She looks like a Barbie on the outside. But she is dealing with a lot of trauma.
i see, that's a good take on it...what can i do to help?
 

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My cock is hard and solid at work. Thinking about my co-worker fiancé who I met 3 days ago at a party.
 

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i see, that's a good take on it...what can i do to help?
Keep uplifting the dark skinned girls/women who aren't conventionally "bad" or "pretty". The dark skinned women you may not even be attracted to or find accessible because they may be butch lesbians or something. Disabled women/girls. The whole point is that you don't have to be attracted to someone to reinforce positivity and appreciation. I know you like big girls. That's a plus. Like the the thread on here of "Dark skinned women with big t*ts" isn't a genuine appreciation of dark skinned women. It's only appreciating a certain type of dark skinned woman because she gets dikks hard. It excludes dark skinned women who don't.
 
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