eazzy–pink:

eazzy–pink:

What is the literal point about making posts about “uwaaaaa the beauty industry was all about you can’t have a fat ass but nowadays there’s this push for women to get their asses pumped waaaaa” if you’re not even going to mention that the reason why is because of the fetishizatiin and commodification of Black women’s bodies?

Like the push to not have a fat ass back in the day was because white supremacist beauty standards said Black women and their body shapes were ugly so if you wanted to be considered not ugly, you needed to be the exact opposite of what our bodies looked like.

But now that the Kardashian make all their money off looking “exotic” with their ass implants and lip injections, things they do to make themselves look like ambiguously mixed Black women, we are seeing a push towards people copying them.

The answer for a lot of beauty trends shifting this way and that has been directly influenced by how the industry is gonna decide to treat Black women and our beauty culture this time—this IG baddie, overdrawn lips, butt implants, and so forth trend is all about commodifying features commonly found among Black women yet try existing as a Black woman with all these things and you’ll still catch people saying we’re ugly.

The dissonance. It is, how you say, killing me that no one wants to talk about how anti-Black racism influences the beauty industry.

What’s worse are the people making memes and jokes out of this. Every single time a white woman makes one of those posts and it goes viral, I wanna just reach through the screen and gently take her by the shoulders and say “it’s the racism.”

It is literally racism that is fueling these new shifts and changes into the world of beauty. The beauty industry is literal just another arm of white supremacy trying to dictate what’s acceptable and what’s not. This is literally just an extension of that but heaven forbid anyone actually address that and have that post go viral.

Like I’m trying to be less judgmental and mad. I get that not everyone knows this or even thinks about these things because we all don’t live the same experiences. But like these very specific things people are talking about “how come flat asses was the it thing back in the day but now people all want butt injections” those are so very specifically tied to anti-Black racism and white supremacist standards of beauty but no one wants to address that when there’s mockery to be made of Black people’s oppression!