That double standard exists everywhere you look... For whatever reason it's seen as OK to be cruel to someone, as long as they represent a percieved ideal, or majority. Since there is this false idea that minority groups can't have the power to hurt majority ones, so whatever they say, can't be mean. Yet the moment someone of a majority, or ideal mentions a negative about a minority, or non ideal, call the PC police. Likewise if your part of a minority, is OK to use inflamatory statements about your minority. But all hell breaks loose if a majority uses it, even if it's a true statement. It's pretty lame when you think about it.
You want to know why as a fair skinned individual, hearing about darker skin MUp problems seems like a dead horse and it seems like i dont care? A huge part of it comes from the fact that my personal issues are trivialized constantly by minority groups. It's all over this thread, that because i'm white, my problems aren't as big as those who have a darker complextion, because the "majority" of products on the market are for fair skinned people. Even though, as a part of the percieved majority, I can't use many of the products availible, because they are too dark.
It's obviously racially motivated that they dont make a foundation in NW Casper the Friendly Ghost, right? Oh wait... I'm white, so it's not racist, I should just go get a tan (I've been told this by MA's as a solution to my lack of selection). Just imagine the uproar that would happen if a MA told a dark skinned women who was having problems finding a matching shade that she should, "get a bleach." If I got upset over being told to "get a tan" the person I complained too would prolly laugh at me, and say that they agreed with the MA.
