Well, this post has been written out of frustration, irritation and annoyance....
This annoyance, frustration and irritation is caused after listening to uncountably high number of arguments saying "Fair is Beauty", typecasting and making fun of people on the basis of their skin color! and stupid fairness products which unfortunately are even more in number. Especially in India the obsession with fair complexion refuses to end even today, and is very disturbing. Some people may claim that we have become a progressive society and such stereotypes no longer exist in our society, but I say it does exist and it is very unfortunate.
A standard ad in the matrimonial column of any indian daily says " Wanted an extremely Fair Woman for a handsome guy" and this proves the beauty norms of our country very clearly!!! Besides that, there is an ever increasing popularity of the fairness creams, skin tone lightening powders and what not. Ever imagined the mental state of a dark girl with a lot of potential, who is competent enough but is demoralized and discouraged just because of her skin color! is this right??? I say its absolutely wrong! This not just discourages her but no wonder it also pushes her into using these good for nothing products, loosing her self confidence and her originality too...why just talk of women here, these days even men have fallen prey to these useless stuff...the definition of a perfect man "Tall Dark and Handsome" has changed to "Tall Fair and Handsome" :( :( more over the famous people like Shahrukh Khan, Suriya, Priyanka, Katrina and many many influential people encouraging it by endorsing these products is even more disheartening as there are so many people who idolize them...and in an urge to become like their favorite stars turn towards these products!!!
Isn't this high time to stop judging people just based on their skin color? Aren't we mature enough to look beyond the skin deep beauty?
I personally think we need to wake up and stand against these meaningless issues. These things are doing nothing but strengthening and supporting social bias thus hindering in any kind of progress that we apparently believe to be happening in our country...
This is just my view, everyone has theirs right! :) :)
nice work shruti...i do believe this article of yours covers more ground other than targeting the cosmetic products...like the mental state of people.
ReplyDeleteThank you Abhinav :) this topic was bothering me a lot, had thought i would definitely consider this once I begin to write! Yes it does cover mental state of people...and the state is quite disheartening :(
ReplyDeletehmmm..personally i prefer dark looking gals :D...and iam not alone in this preference..my friends looking for brides too are going thru a lot coz of unrealistic expectations from gals...
ReplyDeletesuperb yaar...seriously HATS OFF...:)evn i m of d same opinion dat ppl hv restrictd their choices just to the skin tone. while i think that darker luking gals hav d best facial features.
ReplyDeletewell said ..!!
ReplyDeletei loved the article...!!! I really hate the thought when ppl comment on the skin color as if its some kinda disease to be cured...!! I love my skin tone...!! I'm proud to be dark..!! :)
ReplyDeleteThankyou :) and yea, dark skin or light skin its not in our control, so why bother about it, why can't people accept the natural skin!!! As long as there are buyers the companies will keep on selling their useless products, we need to boycott, for that people need to understand that skin color is no criteria for looking good...
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