POC women, do you feel celebrated for your beauty?
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Anonymous
Preach it. |
Anonymous
| I’m East Asian, very thin, athletic, and above average height. Pretty but not stunning. Wish I had bigger boobs (I’m 32C). I didn’t have many suitors even when young because I was so shy and awkward. I notice that the women who got the most attention, regardless of race, were charismatic, lit up the room, friendly, and confident. I really envied them. |
Anonymous
That's not the focus of this thread. self esteem is great though. |
Anonymous
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I’m black. I am, what has been described all my life by people of all races and in the few countries I have lived in, as very beautiful by people of all races. I’m slim but not overly toned and I dress very well though not seductively. I’ve never felt less than in that regard. I’ve been stopped in the streets by men and women, heard whispered comments, told to my face many more times than I can count. Even in middle age I still get admiring glances, compliments and comments. Men, young and older stop their cars to either just compliment or ask me out.
I think beauty has a universal translation. |
Anonymous
| Nope.. Another south Asian American here. I grew up in the USA. I was always the exotic one. I stick out in my group class photos in elementary school. The tan one in a sea of pale faces. I feel fetishized too by random white men. I still don’t see enough representation of women who look like me. While progress is happening at a glacial pace, now I can go to a store and find makeup in skin tones that match mine. Growing up, I could never find foundation that matched me. It was either too pink or much deeper than my skin tone. |
Anonymous
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Korean American here. It’s... getting better. Still a lot of racism and/or jealousy and/or intolerance for the Asian body type. “Built like a boy” etc... Constance Wu in Crazy Rich Asians (regardless of what you thought about the movie) was a pretty big moment. To All the Boys is also pretty huge.
So no, I’ve never felt celebrated. |
Anonymous
Sure women of extraordinary beauty are celebrated no matter the race. But a harder question is whether a women of color who is not gorgeous, just pretty in an everage or typical way is seen that way in broader american culture. |
Anonymous
Are you white-passing? |
Anonymous
| Nope. Black and for much of my life, fat. But it's OK because I wasn't aspiring to be beautiful. |
Anonymous
East Asian. Not southeast Asian. |
Anonymous
I don't think most non-Asians can tell the difference, quite frankly. |
Anonymous
Southeast Asian refers typically to Indians. East Asians refer to Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Most people, non-Asians, can tell the difference between an Indian and an East Asian. |
Anonymous
Persian woman here. South Asians are Indians South east Asians are from countries like Laos. Cambodia, Thailand East Asians are Korean, Chinese, Japanese You’re welcome! |
Anonymous
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Persian PP here. Obviously the above list is not exhaustive.
Oh and to answer the original question, yes I get attention from all types of men! |
Anonymous
Different poster here. You are incorrect. If you don't even know the proper designations, you probably also can't tell the difference between the peoples. Southeast Asian= Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. South Asian= India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, etc East Asian= Japan, China, N and S Korea, Mongolia, etc Funny how people like to stereotype Asians but then don't even understand the geography or know how vast and diverse we are. Asia is the most culturally diverse continent in the world, yet to White and Black America we are one gigantic monolith. |