Some Sugar for a New Year

Happy 2007, minnows.  So, as some of you have noticed, I've had no desire to post anything here...until now. Someone wrote me something so sweet (and completely undeserved) after I spat my "I am a dark girl, hear me ROAR"-rant on the "exploitation thread" on SM, I actually felt like opening up TypePad again...which is good, because once I get this post out of the way, I know I'll be more likely to write.  There's some weird barrier up right now, between me and this diary of mine...because it's been a little while since my last post and it's been quite the emotional while, as well.  Nothing to it, but to do it.

So this is what I found in my GMail, from an absolute sweetheart who sometimes comments on SM:

3:06 PM  Ned'sAtomicDustbinFan:  strong words in your rant

3:12 PM  Ned'sAtomicDustbinFan:  but I liked it, and to be perfectly honest (before I get back to working) that while I've heard people make comments about "pretty for a dark girl" or "pretty for a black girl", etc, I think you're pretty, period. Honestly, if I were forced to choose between you and most every Bollywood star (Ash, or Gracy Singh, for example), I'd pick you...but that's just me.

Squeee, bitches!  Now THAT is a ridiculously good birthday present, a day early to boot!  Thanks, MR...the only thing greater than your taste in music (Pixies?!  Shoegazer??) is your kindness. <3

Comments

[andrea]

That's sweet :) People's opinions can be so confused. "Too dark" for beauty pageants? I guess it's allright to be too dark for an insipid contest, but one is never too dark to be beautiful.

My friend Yasmin has a cantaloupe colored saree in her shop that I look at every single time I go in there. I love the color - it's the best Technicolor shade of yellowishorangeishred that can exist. I have its matching one in mehendi green - because there's no way I could pull off cantaloupe. Only a gorgeous, tall, mahogany colored lady can wear that color. There's no such thing as "too dark" or "too light" to be beautiful. I have always been conscious of my skin color too - waiting for my plane, I was paler than the Norwegians I was sitting next to, and I'd been in the sun for a week! :( But once someone reminded me that my skin was the color of moonlight, all of a sudden I realized that inability to tan didn't suck so much.

What's beautiful to one person is troll to the next, and vice versa. Ignore those people who equate fair=lovely ... because for every one of them, there's one who thinks that's BS. :)

[nina]

i think we all forget the god in the world sometimes, and then out of the blue, a reminder! well deserved and great timing, if i do say so myself! happy early bday:)

[yasmine]

Because it's past midnight on the East Coast now... Happy birthday, beautiful lady! May this upcoming year bring you all that is good - plus more sugar and preciousness to get you through the dark times. Know that you are loved and admired, even by strangers such as myself who have never met you, and that you serve as constant inspiration both here as well as on Sepia Mutiny (and wherever else your empire stretches!).

[terence]

brown skinned lady...how you doing?