tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post66852779306900009..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: Skin bleachingPeter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-36477969782353922762017-04-21T08:35:22.774-04:002017-04-21T08:35:22.774-04:00Aging shows most prominently with skin discolorati...Aging shows most prominently with skin discoloration in darker skinned populations, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-49997055935916970962010-07-11T11:54:37.556-04:002010-07-11T11:54:37.556-04:00n the whole world's existence, at some pass‚, ...n the whole world's existence, at some pass‚, our inner foment goes out. It is then bust into enthusiasm beside an contend with with another magnanimous being. We should all be thankful for the duration of those people who rekindle the inner inspirationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-46112007544828970062009-12-03T02:14:42.806-05:002009-12-03T02:14:42.806-05:00curcumin is used in skin bleaching products and I ...curcumin is used in skin bleaching products and I think licorice is also---but dont hold me to the licorice (its been a while since I read that). <br /><br />Curcumin apparently (when topically applied and not beholden to the acids of digestion) inhibits melanocytes. Our hair greys because of a increasing lack of catalese with age, which in turn keeps dermal levels of hydrogen peroxide in check. Its the increasing amounts of hydrogen peroxide that makes you hair grey and turn white by antagonizing melanocytes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-20863343646052398152009-11-27T05:10:54.230-05:002009-11-27T05:10:54.230-05:00Ben10, Humphrey Bogart was short and brunet, not b...Ben10, Humphrey Bogart was short and brunet, not blond and blue-eyed. And I just googled Claude Barzotti and he really doesn't look much different from the average Frenchman. (Also he's from Belgium not Lorraine.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-88181456419832976242009-11-22T11:12:14.584-05:002009-11-22T11:12:14.584-05:00Indians seem to be somewhat different in that the ...Indians seem to be somewhat different in that the men seem to use lighteners significantly more often than in other populations. A hold over from the traditional caste system giving less prestige to the dark skinned 'lower orders' presumably.Todnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-53511159763839032682009-11-21T19:42:07.951-05:002009-11-21T19:42:07.951-05:00We could say the same thing for men. Hollywood pop...We could say the same thing for men. Hollywood popularized the tall blue eyed anglo-saxon type as some sort of super hero, like Humphrey Borgard, James Dean, Gary Cooper and all the Hollywood legends. In celtic-latin countries (like france in my case) this might have make life more difficult for smaller browned eyed boys. Via cinema, local girls could be acustomed to attractive body types that were rare around them, and could have raised their standard by delaying the mating, i.e waiting for the prince charming. <br />In eastern France were nordic types are (actually, were) common, I remember that body size, eyes and hair color were part of the equation on the attractiveness market for girls AND boys. I am sure girls rate themself accordingly well before ten, and maybe later for teenage boys.<br /><br />There is a crooner singer from italian descent whose parents came to Lorraine (north east France)before WWII. His name's Claude Barzotti. In his song he said that as a kid (like 6 or 7 old), he was perfectly aware of his differences with local kids who where almost all blonds while he had pitch black hairs and he wanted to be like them. He actually said "je revais d'etre un enfant blond". So we all suffer from standards we cannot meet. Girls have their strategy: they try to attract desired genes by fooling them with hair bleaching or other artifices.<br />Men have the opposite strategy, they take the genes they want: the rich & famous who date almost exclusively nordic type models: Seal, Tiger Woods, Yannick Noah etc.Ben10noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-44883461722900857692009-11-20T18:24:27.084-05:002009-11-20T18:24:27.084-05:00Ben10 and Simon,
You're right. I should have ...Ben10 and Simon,<br /><br />You're right. I should have made that point clearer. The post is actually from a larger text (a book) that covers the cross-cultural generality of preference for lighter-skinned women.<br /><br />The problem of skin bleaching is a subset of a larger problem. More women are bleaching their skin in countries like India because they're entering a virtual social environment (via TV and other media) where most women are lighter-skinned. They're now comparing themselves to phenotypes that were much less common in earlier, non-virtual environments.Peter Frostnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-69571502670444395332009-11-20T14:49:45.702-05:002009-11-20T14:49:45.702-05:00Agree with Ben10, interesting stuff but the articl...Agree with Ben10, interesting stuff but the article could make it clearer that male preference for lighter skin long predates Western influence, and seems pretty much universal in all cultures. Which I know partly from reading this blog. :)Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-58829016763633855742009-11-20T09:45:13.545-05:002009-11-20T09:45:13.545-05:00well Peter, you should have mentioned one of your ...well Peter, you should have mentioned one of your own blog:<br /><br />http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2006/12/skin-color-preference-in-sub-saharan.html<br /><br />Just to make a point that NO, Deracialisation like bleaching is Not the fault of the evil white people who imposed their standards of easthetic to the poor victims of the colonisation.Ben10noreply@blogger.com