“When you have the lightest skin and the best hair, you are desirable. It doesn’t matter if you’re a bitch.” Desirable to men, that is. To other women, you are competition. It’s another case of the beauty double bind: Being light-skinned awards you cultural advantages (people think you’re prettier, smarter, better because you appear “white”), but it also makes others resent you and presume that you haven’t had to work your way up.
Colorism
