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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not blonde or blue-eyed, but I think it's kind of silly for a white woman to say "oh, these other white women were considered beautiful and I wasn't." Mediterranean looks have been considered beautiful for a long time. Yes, there was a kind of Grace Kelly ideal, but there have been so many women with dark hair or eyes or both, and darker skin on white women has been popular ever since the Kennedies made tans look "healthy" in the 60s. For every Hitchcock blonde you had a Sofia Loren. Audrey Hepburn. Elizabeth Taylor. When I was in high school and college, in the 80s/early 90s, the ideal was someone who tanned easily and had curves, regardless of hair or eye color. Cindy Crawford. Linda Evangelista. During that era, its seemed more rare for a "classic" blond like Claudia Schiffer to be celebrated. Obviously people still loved it, but most of the super models of the era were brunettes and many had dark eyes and skin.

It's taken much longer for women of color to be celebrated for their looks, and in particular to be celebrated for the ways in which they look distinctly non-Western European. It is only in the last few years that black women have really been celebrated for having dark skin or classically African features (with the rare historical exceptions like Grace Jones). Alternatively, women of color have been truly fetishized, treated as sexy and desirable but not necessarily beautiful or respectable. You still see it now, though there is more awareness.

In any case, I think if you are white, you've already had women who look like you celebrated your entire life, regardless of your hair color.

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