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Girl Talk 1d
gonna start ignoring white girl body standards and take on the mindset of black girl body standards because why do i need to look starving to be skinny? i like having boobs and a butt and flesh on my bones i’m sorry
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Anonymous 1d

cuz genuinely why are the white girl standards so fucking terrible??? if i get skinny and flat my pale ass is just gonna look like a sheet of paper!

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Anonymous 1d

White peoples program is toooo strict they like their women skin and bones. I’m Black and dated all kind of men and i’m marrying a Black king cuz imagine having to maintain a size 00 body while life is kicking yo ass.

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Anonymous 1d

As unhelpful as it was overall, I miss the tiny window around 2016 when my body type (basically the black woman body type) was appreciated and popular. That was just before the kardashians and other celebs popularized BBLs and other extreme plastic surgery to achieve it. The trend will come back around, it always does

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Anonymous 1d

What the hell is that supposed to mean ✋🏽😭

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Anonymous 1d

Why are we being pointed out?? Why not bring up Spanish or Asian tf

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

I think this extends to hair and makeup too. Maybe it’s a reach but the clean girl, slick back look feels anti-black, especially with hair. It felt like we were doing good with popularizing curly, natural hair styles for a while, now we’re back to straight, flat hair again

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

YES THIS TOO

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

speaking as someone with curly hair bro i am NOT doing a slick back to look professional. my hair is professional when it’s up down wild free whatever. its dumb as fuck

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

because those aren’t being talked about like black and white body standards are! asian body standards are similar to white body standards and hispanic/latino are more similar to black body standards so that’s probably why. you can find plenty of tiktoks about it i can link if u want <3

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

No also can we talk about how we were made to feel inferior for years for not having straight hair but all of a sudden the Kalogeras sisters get popular and now everyone wants curly hair? Including the same white people who looked down on 4c type hair? Shit is weird

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 21h

Seriously! I apparently got the curly hair recessive gene in my family (or I’m adopted and no one’s telling me lol) because none of my family members have curly hair. So my mom never knew how to help me with it growing up, and I grew up in a very white area where everyone had straight or loosely wavy hair. I thought something was wrong with me, now people say they wish they had my hair

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

I always loved naturally curly hair but I never knew how to handle it so it was always just a frizzy, tangled mess. Then I got into straightening it before I could explore natural styles and products so I didn’t really discover my curl pattern until COVID when I wasn’t using heat and had time to mess with it. This was my first successful attempt

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 17h

i would like to add that a lot of the rules of “professionalism” are very anglo-centric. a really nice example (imo) was gina torres in suits. i feel like her hair constantly being straightened then re-curled was very (intentionally!!) telling of how natural black beauty is deemed “unprofessional” in many workplace settings.

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