“My Family Is From The Caribbean And We Do Colorism So Well”: 11 Moments From “Light Girls” That Had Us Talking
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Victoria Uwumarogie
Light-Skinned Women And Their Dating Experiences
“It’s painful to find that some men want to date my complexion and not me.”
From being called a “pale b***h” (and having a bottle thrown at them) on the street because a man thought they were being dissed by a light skinned black woman, to feeling that unfair expectations are put on them because of their skin tone, the dating experiences of the women interviewed were very interesting:
“I do have a lot of, specifically white men will approach me and think that I’m a lot easier to deal with because of the way that I look. But when they hear me talk they’re like, ‘Oh hell, let me get away from this one. This one looks like Marilyn McCoo on the outside, but she’s Florida Evans on the inside.” – Aida Rodriguez
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