WEEK#288: Beauty is Wounds
However, something has caught my attention in this day and age. People are competing to be white. What's wrong with having white skin? Of course not. This isn't about race. It's about social beliefs that I think are increasingly toxic. The new standard, especially in my country, is that beautiful people must be white. Oh, that's certainly not normal. My citizens are of Melanesian descent with darker skin types, as well as Malayan Mongoloids with slightly lighter skin tones than the Melanesian race. But does that mean we aren't beautiful? Absolutely wrong. All women, regardless of ethnicity, race, or skin color, can be beautiful.
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However, due to the wave of "white addiction," many social media influencers have been showing off the results of injections to brighten their skin tone. You know what happened next, right? Huge influencers, with hundreds of thousands, even millions, undergoing medical procedures that aren't even recommended, certainly have an impact on their followers. Ultimately, many people become dissatisfied with their original skin.
Once again, it's not the whitening itself that's wrong, but the dangerous method. Many medical experts have openly educated the public that whitening injections are unsafe and can have harmful effects on users over a period of time.
And I think I can admit to being a small-time social observer. After many medical experts educated me about the dangers of whitening injections, I then researched the possible dangers of whitening injections. Do you know how many relevant results there were? 10,000 articles! Imagine that's a fantastic number, right? This means it's already a warning, because so many articles have deliberately discussed these issues. Some of the serious effects of whitening injections include liver and kidney damage, and severe allergies! That's that dangerous.
However, the accumulated potential for errors from whitening injections is that people can develop autoimmune disorders. Some social media influencers have had to undergo lifelong treatment for autoimmune diseases. Where did it start? Yep... whitening vitamin injections.
How do I resist pressure and adapt to it? Simply by being myself, of course. I have principles and a broad perspective on how society works. It's their choice to take that toxic path and the risks it entails, but I still occasionally make small, influential suggestions that it's okay to have healthy skin. Health is an absolute price. I'll happily commend those who strive to remain confident in their genetic skin. Those who show the wider community that beauty doesn't have to be white if it ends up hurting themselves.
What do you think? Was my opinion too harsh?
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