I agree with you. You made it clear that she was beautiful to you. Hence our collective confusion as to why because she wasn't beautiful to someone else it should affect you so much.

Ok, it wasn't an attack, but definitely a dangerous serving of sarcasm lol.
I aint mad atcha.

VK...if you believe "attack" was a strong word, then I guess I'll retract that word.

If you read my threads here, you will realize that I am probably the only man here who have defended Black women time and time again and was engaged in a war between the Women and the Men here on BNV and I took the side of the Women defending them to the death, while some men launched barrage after barrage but I went out and shielded the sisters and some of the sisters here did a good job of defending themselves and probably did not need me to do there work for them, but nevertheless I was clear on where I will take a stand. I ain't one to begin lambasting Black Women as to who is Beautiful and who is ugly, attractive and not.

I remember some Men RIGHT HERE ON BNV personally attack some BNV Women SOME OF WHO ARE RIGHT HERE as being not too attractive and I thought the way some of these men's actions were despicable, uncalled for, repulsive and said so because I saw nothing un-attractive about these women who in my opinion I thought were pretty and beautiful. How quick we forget when the shoe is on the other foot and some men might say the same about you in your avatar but I will be the first to say they are wrong, but that is just me. A day will come when these things will repeat themselves and some of you will be attacked as not attractive and I will be there again by the side of the sisters. Any way good luck and lets move on from this minor disagreement and we cool and family.

Listen, with the nonsense you post you are the only person suspected a faggery you impulsive twit. You won't find a single sentence of me talking about a "standard African look", so learn to read first before you come at me.

I am not sure if you are referring to me as "lambasting Black Women", but it seems some are confused about my intentions in starting the thread and I want to reiterate what I feel is necessary. In my thread-starter, I wrote:

"Granted, she is an attractive woman, but as usual our women are only recognized as beautiful when they perpetuate the European standard of beauty well. Other such women who perpetuate it well are Vanessa Williams and Tyra Banks, where Williams coincidentally won the Miss America pageant and Banks is considered a "supermodel" in succeeding to perpetuate European beauty standards."

I agree wholeheartedly that we should not be tearing down our women, and the men should be the first to stand up against those attacks against our other half. At the same time, we need to be mindful of the devices (i.e. Eurocentric beauty pageants) used as catalysts to destroying the diverse beauty of African women. These images are very important, where people such as Dr. Na'im Akbar (Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery) have spent a great deal of time to get us to realize how these things effect how we cater to our own needs as a people.

You were the first person I thought of when I started that thread. I look forward to your input...thanks...

Mainstream entertainment has never ever been there to showcase an array of beauty full stop, even their own.

The pageants are just as limiting for girls/women of particular weight/height/hair colour who are not even Black. It is what it is.

We can see how psychologically maladapted the Europeans are from this, so why do our women even participate?

"Massa...we sick?"

I dont know why "our" women participate, there could be a bunch of reasons from scholarships to recognition, or just because they can. Who knows?

Black women are still women.........most women want to be told they are beautiful, I suppose.

I think people should just take it for what it is. It wouldn't hurt to create equivalents (of the same calibre) which really do focus on Black diversity.....but then there will probably be some Black women who will also be austrocised in that process potentially.

At the end of the day, most of us here live in western societies which are run to western standards..........

Talking about Beauty standards and all of that, but I have noticed that Black Folks are actually the ones who seem hard and determined to put ourselves down. Notice this video about this woman, who some people say she must be a man. Just notice how she was harassed and chased after like a Zoo Monkey by non other than Black Folks and notice how the white Folks basically went about there businesses and never harassed this tall woman. Why do Folks feel the need to harass other people? Not saying if she is the Beauty or the Beast, but why do some us do the things we do. Only Jah knows. Yeah she is taller than what we are used to, so what, big deal. And then we complain about European standards of beauty when some of us including Women too are the first ones to dog out other women. The horrors of our behaviors never ceases to amaze me and hypocrisy at best is how I describe it. You can find the thread here.

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