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bluedipper: ragingserenity: dr-killjoy: vecordy: bluedipper: I have so many feelings about this photo. Filipino mentality about beauty. NOPE. Too frikking low. What’s wrong being dark? I really just don’t get it. There are beautiful dark skinned ladies in the Philippines but the masses just say “mukha siyang katulong! ang pangit!” Like Devon from PBB teens being hated because she is “ugly” compared to fair-skinned Fretzie, fellow PBB housemate, but that’s another story. Another thing, if this is really plotted to be an issue, shame on you FHM. Making issues to sell. Dirty… dirty… dirty… Am I over reacting? Ugh. Meanwhile, back in USA’s neocolony the Philippines, 300 years of Spanish colonization, and 50 years of American imperialist rule, led to this magazine cover. Not just this magazine cover, though, because a lot of FHM Philippines magazine covers, and magazine covers from most if not all of Filipino magazines, have brown-skinned models who appear a lot whiter on the covers, or are just really light-skinned. Our system of beauty is so simple, it’s not even funny: dark is horrible, brown is almost there, and light-skinned is akin to a new lease on life. But being light-skinned is not enough. You have to have perfect white skin, even if you’re modeling for shampoos. Oh, we could sit here and watch countless advertisements, but the fact is in the Philippines, as in anywhere that there is a cultural obsession, there is a corresponding industry that serves as proof. We Filipinos are so quick on the internet to point out that some portrayals of Filipinos or some comments on Filipinos are racist. But we’re very much racists ourselves. In closing, here’s Manny Pacquiao with his wife Jinkee Pacquiao. Here’s Jinkee Pacquiao now. That, by the way, is a magazine directed at straight Filipina women. IDEK, GFDI. Long live the indio? Well this is fucked up on so many levels.  We have a woman with light skin surrounded by women with dark skin.  The women to her left and right seem to be in awe of her.  The one behind her seems to be full of jealously because obviously just wishes her skin was that light.  There are two woman who are literally beneath her.  Plus the fucking title of her feature is “Stepping out of the shadows.”  What fuck is wrong with people? This is something I’ve wondered about ever since I was little - the fact that how beautiful you were was judged on something like your skin colour. I had a lot of bitterness about this because it seems as if Filipino culture isn’t even attempting to break away from these negative ideas about what beauty is. As a young girl I was considered “cute” because I was skinny and had pale skin - being outside all the time when I was young destroyed pale and over-indulging destroyed skinny, and I remember going back to Philippines as a thirteen year old girl and having my self-confidence destroyed in the first three weeks I was there. I cried to my mum about how I would do anything to be skinny. I think about it now and wonder how I could EVER have said those words - and felt that way, but I recently returned to Philippines and remembered how I had to hold myself together so tightly, to truly believe that I was beautiful without listening to what people had to say. I had to balance between being able to laugh at myself and knowing that I was amazing despite a whole culture saying otherwise. This is just so unacceptable, and the things I felt as an insecure thirteen year old facing this is fuelled by images like this, and ads like those telling everyone that beauty is an outward concept, instead of an inner one.  I have an iron will, and I consider myself confident. I love myself, and I love how I look, but no matter how strong someone is it’s hard when family and friends constantly badger you about how much you eat, suggest you shop at the maternity section of shopping malls and wistfully talk about how pretty you were as a child. This kind of mentality needs to disappear, not just from Filipino culture, but from all of them.  Reblogging my post because of the insights of the people who reblogged she’s not even beautiful :| people like her just because of her skin tone :| which is completely stupid :| Via Precious Illusions Zoom

bluedipper:

ragingserenity:

dr-killjoy:

vecordy:

bluedipper:

I have so many feelings about this photo. Filipino mentality about beauty. NOPE. Too frikking low. What’s wrong being dark? I really just don’t get it. There are beautiful dark skinned ladies in the Philippines but the masses just say “mukha siyang katulong! ang pangit!” Like Devon from PBB teens being hated because she is “ugly” compared to fair-skinned Fretzie, fellow PBB housemate, but that’s another story.

Another thing, if this is really plotted to be an issue, shame on you FHM. Making issues to sell. Dirty… dirty… dirty…

Am I over reacting? Ugh.

Meanwhile, back in USA’s neocolony the Philippines, 300 years of Spanish colonization, and 50 years of American imperialist rule, led to this magazine cover.

Not just this magazine cover, though, because a lot of FHM Philippines magazine covers, and magazine covers from most if not all of Filipino magazines, have brown-skinned models who appear a lot whiter on the covers, or are just really light-skinned.

Our system of beauty is so simple, it’s not even funny: dark is horrible, brown is almost there, and light-skinned is akin to a new lease on life. But being light-skinned is not enough. You have to have perfect white skin, even if you’re modeling for shampoos. Oh, we could sit here and watch countless advertisements, but the fact is in the Philippines, as in anywhere that there is a cultural obsession, there is a corresponding industry that serves as proof.

We Filipinos are so quick on the internet to point out that some portrayals of Filipinos or some comments on Filipinos are racist. But we’re very much racists ourselves.

In closing, here’s Manny Pacquiao with his wife Jinkee Pacquiao. Here’s Jinkee Pacquiao now. That, by the way, is a magazine directed at straight Filipina women.

IDEK, GFDI. Long live the indio?

Well this is fucked up on so many levels.  We have a woman with light skin surrounded by women with dark skin.  The women to her left and right seem to be in awe of her.  The one behind her seems to be full of jealously because obviously just wishes her skin was that light.  There are two woman who are literally beneath her.  Plus the fucking title of her feature is “Stepping out of the shadows.”  What fuck is wrong with people?

This is something I’ve wondered about ever since I was little - the fact that how beautiful you were was judged on something like your skin colour. I had a lot of bitterness about this because it seems as if Filipino culture isn’t even attempting to break away from these negative ideas about what beauty is.

As a young girl I was considered “cute” because I was skinny and had pale skin - being outside all the time when I was young destroyed pale and over-indulging destroyed skinny, and I remember going back to Philippines as a thirteen year old girl and having my self-confidence destroyed in the first three weeks I was there. I cried to my mum about how I would do anything to be skinny. I think about it now and wonder how I could EVER have said those words - and felt that way, but I recently returned to Philippines and remembered how I had to hold myself together so tightly, to truly believe that I was beautiful without listening to what people had to say. I had to balance between being able to laugh at myself and knowing that I was amazing despite a whole culture saying otherwise.

This is just so unacceptable, and the things I felt as an insecure thirteen year old facing this is fuelled by images like this, and ads like those telling everyone that beauty is an outward concept, instead of an inner one. 

I have an iron will, and I consider myself confident. I love myself, and I love how I look, but no matter how strong someone is it’s hard when family and friends constantly badger you about how much you eat, suggest you shop at the maternity section of shopping malls and wistfully talk about how pretty you were as a child. This kind of mentality needs to disappear, not just from Filipino culture, but from all of them. 

Reblogging my post because of the insights of the people who reblogged

she’s not even beautiful :| people like her just because of her skin tone :|

which is completely stupid :|


  1. testingyu4-rabbits reblogged this from ragingserenity
  2. nevarrrland reblogged this from kimmizucchini and added:
    They recalled this cover right?
  3. furansees reblogged this from bluedipper and added:
    she’s not even beautiful :| people like her just because of her skin tone :| which is completely stupid :|
  4. thecrimsondusk reblogged this from alyzza and added:
    Long live the indios!
  5. alyzza reblogged this from mistertambourineman
  6. mistertambourineman reblogged this from raphiem
  7. raphiem reblogged this from neuroticinfinity
  8. ivillacisneros reblogged this from kimmizucchini
  9. kimmizucchini reblogged this from wondernot and added:
    BUT THAT SCRIPTINA FONT THOUGH. Why wouldn’t it die? :(
  10. bluedipper reblogged this from ragingserenity and added:
    Reblogging my post because of the insights of the people who reblogged
  11. neuroticinfinity reblogged this from theladyisageek
  12. kmadness reblogged this from imcravingformore
  13. ntshfiq reblogged this from theladyisageek
  14. notateenanymore reblogged this from theladyisageek
  15. wondernot reblogged this from theladyisageek and added:
    And there you have it.
  16. imcravingformore reblogged this from noordinarylife
  17. ragingserenity reblogged this from dr-killjoy and added:
    This is something I’ve wondered about ever since I was little - the fact that how beautiful you were was judged on...
  18. noordinarylife reblogged this from theladyisageek
  19. theladyisageek reblogged this from vecordy
  20. dr-killjoy reblogged this from vecordy and added:
    Well this is fucked up on so many levels. We have a woman with light skin surrounded by women with dark skin. The women...
  21. vecordy reblogged this from bluedipper and added:
    USA’s neocolony...Philippines, 300 years of Spanish colonization, and 50 years of American...
  22. furansees said: tama tama! there’s nothing wrong being dark skinned!
  23. technodium said: I had more feelings with this cover because of the fact that they use Scriptina for a font. But yes you’re right too. :|
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