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The Pulchritudinous Golden Skin Girl
May 29, 2021
Beauty.
A simple term, which a complex definition
Silky blonde hair?
She has thick, wavy black hair that can hide 20 baby eggs.
She is ugly
Are her lips big?
Yes, but you can see the tiny mustache that mistakes her for a man.
She is ugly
Skinny waist?
Curvy hips like a camel's back
She is ugly
Light skin?
Dark brown skin the color of a fresh piece of wood.
She is ugly
Can’t she put in some effort? No one will ever love her then.
She can’t change it.
It only costs a bunch of pennies.
Pennies can't fix it.
Fix what?
Racism.
© Meera J., Hawthorne, New York
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A lot of times I question my own beauty. I wonder why I look at other girls with such jealousy and cannot feel to think that's not how others feel when they look at me. It took me a very long time to understand that Asian Women's beauty standards are set apart from others and we are seen as "ugly" for our unique features. We live in a society where we are not given the light to shine our exquisite brown skin that radiates under the sun because it is only seen beautiful to have that skin tone throughout the summer.