For some reason people think it’s totally acceptable to tell you how disgusting your skin is when it’s pale.
Comments commonly heard by pale gurls (and guys):
Do you live in a cave?
Is your dad that guy from the movie “Powder?”
Why don’t you go tanning? (you listen as you stare into their premature wrinkles)
Are you dead?
Do you bathe in White Out?
I would just DIE if I couldn’t get tan.
Oh you poor pasty thing.
Why do people think this is acceptable behavior? Why are we subject to constant ridicule and judgment just because our skin pigmentation is naturally light? All melodrama aside, I would like to start a pale skin revolution – STOP HATIN’ ON THE PALES!
Our society favors the tan a little too much if you ask me and it time to flip the script.
What’s wrong with a good old-fashioned pale gurl?! Nothing. According to me…A PALE GURL!
Pale Gurl is a blog/website about life…from the perspective of a pale gurl in a constant failed pursuit for a tan.
The Pales and the Tans can coexist, but not until we PALES are treated equally.
Thanks for visiting and tell all your pale or tan friends.
Good day!
5 Comments
August 26, 2008 at 7:43 pm
You done your mamma proud baby gurl!
November 2, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I’m about to put your article about forwards on the chain letter wiki, and decided to look at your “About me”. Personally, I think people are far too stuck on appearances, period. If you’re pale, they call you ‘pasty’ and if you’re dark, they nickname you after food items as if you were something to eat/drink, or as if they were talking about the fur on an animal ‘chocolate’ ‘coffee colored’ etc. Argh, honestly! You’d think in this civilized age, people would get over it, grow up, and pay attention to personality and forget about looks unless they are trying to well, be clean and presentable to go out in public. Keeping up an acceptable appearance, and being shallow are two completely different things, and I have absolutely zero tolerance for the latter. This includes drippy fangirls who fall in love – excuse me – lust – with some fictional character who would sooner drink their blood for night lunch as look at them if they were for real. And all because the character in question looks soooo incredibly hot, apparently. *Cough cough.*
December 7, 2008 at 12:08 am
I was scarred for life when, aged 8, my mum’s friend nearly fell off her chair laughing when I got into my bathing suit because my legs were so white! I too am in constant pursuit of a tan. I think you need to start a pale gurl movement!
October 23, 2009 at 3:04 am
Last year I went to a beach in Michigan. On that trip I learned, 1. I am lighter than white sand, and 2. I look like a florescent lightbulb. I glowed, not the sexy tan glow, but the holy crap is today the first day she’s ever been outside and why does her skin look whiter than my sheets?! In the end best experience ever, I got a lot of people eyeing me that day ;).
Porcelain, vampire, translucent, pale, fair-skinned, ginger, albino, and pasty are a few of the names used to reference me and my skin.
But, luckily for us pale skinned girls, our skin will look awesome when we get older. We won’t have that nastily leathery wrinkly skin that all the girls my age who go tanning will have. Unfortunately, I have many more years to get to that point.
November 6, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Pale Gurl~
I love that you have a whole blog about this. I’m a fellow pale girl, and believe strongly in being yourself…whether you’re white, yellow, brown, or black.
Have written a few posts related to the topic of paleness or anti-tanning…hope you’ll stop by…or feature here:
http://www.gritandglamour.com/2009/07/04/since-its-summertime-somewhere-in-the-world/
http://www.gritandglamour.com/2009/11/05/wrinkles-ugly-on-faces-and-outfits/
http://www.gritandglamour.com/2009/10/23/styleshot-dita-von-teese/