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Ally Cat
is on page 101 of 400
"... His brown eyes are to die for and a constant source of my envy. Much prettier than my dirt- brown ones."
.. WTF is up with these authors describing brown skin and brown eyes as 'dirty'?!!!!!!!
How did no one catch this?!!! Do white people not hear themselves?!! Do white authors have no POC editors?!!!!
In case you do not see the harm here, it's a subtle way that whiteness is represented as superior.
— Jan 14, 2026 11:31AM
.. WTF is up with these authors describing brown skin and brown eyes as 'dirty'?!!!!!!!
How did no one catch this?!!! Do white people not hear themselves?!! Do white authors have no POC editors?!!!!
In case you do not see the harm here, it's a subtle way that whiteness is represented as superior.
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Ally Cat
is on page 139 of 400
Her (the FMC's) eyes went from being described as 'dirty-brown' (p. 101) to eyes 'with green flecks near the iris' (p. 139).
I still stand by my previous point that describing brown skin or eyes as 'dirty' is problematic.
— Jan 14, 2026 09:03PM
I still stand by my previous point that describing brown skin or eyes as 'dirty' is problematic.
