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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]At work I dress conservatively, wear my hair up and wear little make-up. Early in my career I didn't do that and I got hit on all the time by a lot of guys single and married. Once I made the change at a new job it really made my professional life much easier. [/b]I met my DH at work and we were business friends for almost a year and then I invited him out because I thought he was really cute. When he saw me with my hair down, wearing some makeup and wearing a sundress he almost didn't recognize me. I don't think he was disappointed. [/quote]
Same here. I’m Latina. Interesting to read posts by attractive white people framing being very good looking as a positive.

Being a Latina in a predominantly white workplaces and a very un-diverse industry, I can say the grief over my looks has been terrible. White men like and want to help me, until I won’t sleep or flirt with them, or accept advances. A lot of white women hate me almost on sight and, inevitably, the gossip, nitpicking, blowing up any minor mistakes I make etc. start. I know people are going to respond blaming me, somehow when I wear super high necklines, minimal makeup, flats, and boxy cuts, keep my hair up, and do other things to really downplay my looks, I get treated decently. I literally look like a school marm at work and have to take great pains to be obsequious and unassuming.

I think the assumption white people make that a Latina can’t have gotten a job on her own merits is amplified by the assumption that “hot” people also get preference and comes out as hostility/contempt. Mind you, I’m in a white collar position that no one gets without top credentials and my credentials are on the website.

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How do you know that the other people posting are white??[/quote]

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