#especially when eyes that aren't brown are quite rarer on people of color than they are on white people | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

shoechoe · 10 months

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I have to say I am a little selfishly happy about the Tumblr trend of complimenting brown eyes. I have very dark brown eyes and all I ever got for them was the occasional compliment from my mother and a whole lot of "you have brown eyes because you're full of shit hee hee hee"

#rambles #not jojo related #the teasing never bothered me in any real way because i know it's all just jokes (and often came from other brown eyed people)#but you know. it feels nice for brown eyes to be appreciated once in a while #fiction looooves glorifying eyes that aren't brown it made me go ''aw man i just have these lame brown eyes'' to myself growing up #it is really honestly very odd how blue eyes and green eyes are so put on pedestals as markers of uniqueness and beauty and stuff #when brown & black eyes can look just as good and stand out on a person and everything too #especially when eyes that aren't brown are quite rarer on people of color than they are on white people #you notice a lot of features that are glorified as 'special' and as beauty standards (blonde hair & a small nose for example) are like that #it is definitely something worthy of pointing out

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