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Post by Wienerschnitzel con Carne on Feb 20, 2002 14:24:00 GMT -5
I don't know why, but a lot of people at school have a tendency to pick on people that aren't as tan as everyone else. I'm really pasty, and people always call me things like "ghost" and "powder" and though a lot of it's just in jest, sometimes it gets downright insulting. Does anyone else have problems with this?
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Post by Toxic-Avenger on Feb 21, 2002 9:18:45 GMT -5
I used to get that, not as bad but people didn't like my pasty skin color. But I'll also look younger longer when everyone else will be able to stick a credit card in their skin because it's so wrinkley-crinkley by the time they hit 30. No worries about skin cancer either. I have some color now, but sunscreen is better than sunburn. Not worth it for color. Ouch!  |
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Post by LittleGreenDream on Feb 27, 2002 17:28:57 GMT -5
I get that a lot too. I'd rather stay white than to get skin cancer. I don't tan anyway, I just get REALLY bad sunburns.
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Post by Michaelangelo on Mar 11, 2002 22:18:39 GMT -5
Just remember who's gonna have the nasty warts all over their brown, leathery skin in 30 years...and smile, white[/color] girl.  Love, ~The Kitten~ |
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Post by excessive_energy2 on Apr 11, 2002 22:06:59 GMT -5
Thats sounded really racist.  |
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Post by x n0ise on Apr 12, 2002 21:40:43 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm fairly white. Not too white, but white enough to where my boyfriend jokes around with me and says, 'You need a TAN, girl!' Psh! He has nothing to worry about, his skin is naturally tan! Grr. But being white runs in my family. See, my family is Swiss, or from Switzerland....and, well...we're really white. But I don't care.  I'm happy. |
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Post by It's~A~Nova on Apr 13, 2002 11:48:59 GMT -5
[glow=pink,2,300]I'm pretty white but I no one really insults me for it, besides some light teasing from my friends every now and then. This one friend of mine is extremely white and when she wore shorts the other day someone asked her if she was wearing white tights...[/glow]
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Post by x n0ise on Apr 13, 2002 15:22:43 GMT -5
Whoa, really? She's that white, eh? Yeah, I never really get teased for it. I sort of get a tan in the summer, so I'm pretty content with myself.
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Post by Spazmatikal on Apr 21, 2002 23:48:39 GMT -5
i don't tan. i turn lobster red, it peels off, and i'm pasty white again. anytime i wear a skirt people are like "my GOD! i think i'm blind" or "OMG whitey!" ugh.. lol. just because i don't have the luxury of tanning, i should always wear pants. whatever! it's so funny... back in victorian days... people did all they could be be creamy white. now you're a mutant. i'm known as "white girl" in PE. how demeaning  |
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Post by SunShine on Apr 27, 2002 16:00:32 GMT -5
I know what ya mean Spazmatikal. I am known as the "white girl" too in PE. Especially PE. Being tan isn't worth burning and peeling and self tanners that turn you orange though. So I guess I'll just have to live with it. |
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Post by SuGarPantieS on May 25, 2002 9:49:37 GMT -5
I dont tan too often either. Especially since it was barely hot enough to do so last year & my tan faded.
I wore a skirt to school the other day with a slit in it. I walked past a group of guys I know & one says: "Wow your even whiter than I am!" They all turned & looked. I was kind of embarassed so I made a joke about it. I laughed & said: "Yeah Im just pastey!"
When ppl make comments like that towards me I always take it as a joke. Its the best way to go if you ask me. It shows you are not embarassed & ppl will be less likely to bring up the subject again.
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Post by Ich Liebe Rammstein on May 25, 2002 11:53:53 GMT -5
^^^^^^ Yeah,that's a good way to go. Well,I'm a little white but alway during the summer,like when we go to Florida, I'' get a tan...along with a sunburn . I don't really care. I don't get teased or anything though. I mean,one of my friends said something once,but I thought of it as a joke also,SugarPanties. Only because it was funny the way she said it. But no offense,but some people look really bad tanned. Like they use way too much of that spray on or whatever it is. This one girl at the mall was literally bright orange.  ~~~~~~Heather,(Edward Furlong,Mike Shinoda,Chester Bennington,KidRock & Joe C. LOVER!!!!!! Linkin Park RULES!!!!!!) |
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Post by -*- Little Miss Strawberry -*- on May 25, 2002 16:10:44 GMT -5
We never get this in the UK... maybe its because we have so little real sun, that it doesn't matter.
I tan quite easily though, so I usually end up with brown skin by the time summer's over. But for us it makes no difference whatever colour we are, or whether we have a tan or not. Not in my circles anyway.
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Post by thevoicewithin on Jul 16, 2002 17:19:43 GMT -5
I get that sometimes. I'm not too white but I'm around such tan people that it makes me look whiter than I am. During winter is when I get the whitest. But during summer, I get pretty good sun. Not dark or anything, just a little more color. But have you noticed that some people get SO dark that it starts to wrinkle the skin on their shoulders? I wouldnt want to be that dark. And when anyone says something to me (hasn't happened in a while) I say," I have fair skin and my family is from Switzerland, got a prob?"
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Post by DancinQT7610 on Jul 18, 2002 12:40:45 GMT -5
I'm pretty white, but it's not really a problem. I think light skin is prettier than tan honestly. It looks more natural. Nobody really thinks too much of it down here.
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