tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2674771134016350625.post6695634098121598381..comments2023-10-20T10:45:32.083-04:00Comments on Lady Reader's Bookstuff: Q&A With Author Victoria Foyt + Giveawaylady readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01804879762305625910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2674771134016350625.post-68681448614411592362012-11-26T19:20:02.425-05:002012-11-26T19:20:02.425-05:00But white people ARE today's standard of beaut...But white people ARE today's standard of beauty. See: the overwhelming majority of actors/actresses in Hollywood (and other celebrities, really) are white, and POC are usually only hired for bit roles and token minority parts. And just try to find a fat or muscular woman in a magazine or other media. Or just look at all those terrifyingly dangerous skin-bleaching creams, designed to make their user appear more white, that are really popular in Asian countries now.<br /><br />Now, I'm not saying the author's approach to these issues isn't abhorrent (and I agree this book is completely insensitive), but it's naive to pretend that modern, mainstream beauty standards aren't geared towards whiteness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2674771134016350625.post-61766232169827477352012-11-26T11:02:29.901-05:002012-11-26T11:02:29.901-05:00While I completely respect and encourage the const...While I completely respect and encourage the constant "what if" questions the author (and any person at all!) asks, I find this part of this interview highly unsettling:<br /><br /><i>...what would happen if global warming turned today’s prevailing beauty standards upside down? In the story, because Caucasians have less melanin in their skin to protect them from the sun’s burning rays, they are branded as inferior Pearls. Dark-skinned people, or Coals, have more resistance to the Heat, and therefore, now rule society ... Eden Newman, a lithe blue-eyed blonde, would be considered gorgeous in our day, while in the future she has to beg for a mate or suffer an early death ... </i><br /><br />Lithe blue-eyed blondes are today's standards of beauty? Really? And if those standards are turned upside-down, such as in REVEALING EDEN, Caucasians would be ugly, no? And in turn, this would make dark-skinned people—or Coals, as they're politely described—objects of beauty, right? Oh, but only in the author's fictional realm. They possibly couldn't be beautiful today.<br /><br />The premise is interesting, I'll admit. The bigoted approach of the author's idea of beauty, however, sickens me to the core.Karielle Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01820773289727284876noreply@blogger.com