Had a thought… we hurt each other with our language or when something is new and scary to us… Follow this… We look at how words to describe skin tone… We see a person of Asian descent, their skin golden and glowing and we simplify it to simplify the person and call it yellow. We see someone of African descent and instead of calling the tone a rich ebony with an earthen hue… we simplify it down to black. We see an Indigenous person and we don’t call their skin glowing with deep sepia tones… we dummy it down to red. We see a person of European and we don’t call their skin a pale cream with bursts of red underlay, we call them white.
I endeavor not to use food words to describe skin tones… I am so over being different shades of chocolate myself… so we need to come up with some better wording, something that will show the complicated tins and underlays od skin… I once had a person scream at me because I picked up purple to add to her skin tone… but when she saw the portrait afterward, she apologized because she didn’t know that tone was in her skin. Really, our skin is a rainbow of colors as influenced by the sun. And like the color black in the art world… a combination of all colors, all of our skin tones are combinations of all colors in different degrees.
We are walking spectrums and the shade comes in when we hold up a prism to our souls. But I digress.
We need better skin tone words. It’s for the benefit of all mankind.
Flash *g*
We are walking spectrums and the shade comes in when we hold up a prism to our souls. But I digress.
We need better skin tone words. It’s for the benefit of all mankind.
Flash *g*