Psychology Today: Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?

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so-treu:

this is an article. this is an article that exists. and this is where you can go to tell these people how full of racist bullshit they are.

that article was appallingly disgusting on so many levels

  • equating a higher level of testosterone with unattractiveness- first of all, why is more testosterone magically a bad thing? Are women automatically less attractive because they don’t have a certain amount of estrogen, which is supposed to give those “soft feminine features”. Society needs to stop putting physical/biological features on the gender binary, especially for the purpose of lourding one over the other 
  • higher BMIs: If the BMI within itself has been proven to be junk science and not a real indication of anything, then why bother including it in this study? What does a BMI number really show? Jack shit. So to use it to compare the physical attractiveness of the races means even less 
  • “Africans having more mutations amongst them, which decreases attractiveness over time”- Oh really now? That’s just a loaded statement within itself. It doesn’t acknowledge how those mutations came into being: inter-tribal mating, cross-continental mating, colonization, slavery, ect. So basically, you’re blaming a race’s physical unattractiveness on facts they did and didn’t have control over. 

I just can’t sometimes. I mean really, why bother to conduct studies like this in the first place. How does this help improve understanding of different cultures? How does this help anything at all?

SMDH!! 

Something to think about every time someone brings up ” attractive” as a challenge to Women of Color