The coloured obsession...

I was dark, very, very, very dark. My life was so sad, so empty and immensely lonely. I didn't get a good job, I wanted to be a model, a super model. But that bloody chocolate colored skin of mine, just didn't let that happen. No one wanted be my friend, I never got a decent date, I was pretty, very pretty under that dark skin of mine and yes I must admit I was ashamed of myself...
But then, but then, but then yahoo!!!!!
One beautiful fairness cream called 'Stereotyped beauty' helped me. I became fair, fair as cotton. Everyone wanted to be my friend, I hooked up with a sexy hunk and I was irresistible, simply irresistible,
see how one god damn fairness cream changed my life...

This is to you, my beautiful Indian people, perfect stereotypers, you people can stereotype everything from bad people to good people, religion, even skin colour.
This is usually how an advertisement for a fairness cream is. As if one cream can change our life, wow!

I've heard the sentence 'I want to be fairer' so many times. So many times that I don't know what to say anymore. 'Typical Indian obsession, maybe Asian obsession'.


Matrimonial section-
My name is Malingam Singh Banerjee, my second middle name is closed minded.
I am handsome, fair, my height is 183 cms, I work in the USA ( why should I reveal what I do, I could be a pimp but I work in the USA. Isn't that enough to get myself a bride?), I am 38 years old and I'm looking for a beautiful girl who's fair and from a good family ( by that I mean rich).

This is what a typical matrimonial section is like, the word 'fair' is always mentioned,
This big obsession of ours is everywhere.

Now I'm not going to say that's wrong, we shouldn't be so obsessed, etc.Cause it sure is and I don't need to mention that.

I'm on the darker side and i love it. That's one thing I don't want to change. Fair, dark, that doesn't matter to me.

Fairness creams do very well in India. I have seen so many typical mindsets talk about fair skin. Fair skin like it's some boon. It's actually sick and in a way telling you that they are small minded.

It's important that ones comfortable with oneself, a very big ability.
It's high time we shift focus. Stop stereotyping things.
To the people who are colour obsessed I'd like to say two things-
'Beauty', it's just very complicated and fair skin or for that matter even that sexy tan won't necessarily make you more beautiful or visually stimulating, feel good from inside' like yourself, know yourself cause in life you are this person with yourself forever and the next thing,
Halt obsessing, halt stereotyping...