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It's very privileged never to have been in a position where you don't notice what effect the whiteness of the most heavily marketed and desirable characters -- Disney princesses -- has on young girls who aren't white. It's privileged not to have had to worry about whether your daughter will grow up wishing she was another race, or thinking that girls are prettier when they are white, or preferring white beauty standards. [/quote]

Curious....do you have a son?  Ever notice NBA players.  Do white boys have a problem with that?
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I'm sorry, I don't understand the analogy. I can't tell if you are being facetious or not.

I have never worried that my white son will end up feeling as though the masculine ideal in his culture is a Black basketball player, if that's what you are asking. There's much greater diversity in male role models -- in the sense that there are  wide variety of athletic role models, scientific role models, political role models, and so on, for boys. Although they are disproportionately White.[/quote]

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