do Black women get to “enjoy” pretty privilege?

do Black women get to enjoy pretty privilege? Let's talk about it. Beauty is capital. Beyond the surface level of it all, the way your, how symmetrical everything is, are a bundle of advantages. Advantages are tangible, like getting a, right? Getting a 5 to 15% on the other hand, those advantages are harder to quantify. They're, like, feeling, like feeling welcomed into every space that you go into. Regardless, capital is capital, right? Beauty can be exchanged for goods and services. It can be used as a ladder to climb, like social and professional experiences. But also, I think that all of what I've described is mostly true or mostly effective for white women. My argument is not that black women are unattractive. In fact, they are the most beautiful. We are the blueprint. I am arguing that in a largely white America, in predominantly white spaces, black women do not get to kind of enjoy the capital gains of beauty the way a white woman does. I think, in fact, when a black woman has pretty privilege, she incurs a lot of negative and harmful experiences, right? Like, think the pet to threat phenomenon. The whole idea. And, like, very common experience of black women in, like, where they enter into the workforce and everyone so delighted with them. But, suddenly, that woman shows herself to be confident, or she advocates, or she looks more beautiful and stylish than the rest of the people there. Threat. Or think the Tignon laws. In 1786, white women rallied in New Orleans and got the legislators to impose that forced black women to cover their hair. These white women were incensed by that their white husbands were in trans and attracted to these black women. And they did everything in their power to render any privilege those women got from their beauty illegal. Here is obviously the whole idea of, like, beauty under our patriarchal system is fucked up and mired in prejudice. Pretty privileged as we understand it, as we talk about it, this app, derives from, like, a white patriarchal beauty standard, which means that there is a racialized way to be pretty under white patriarchy. And if you kind of deviate from that expectation, suddenly you are considered a threat. A white woman's prettiness under the system is readily accepted and readily awarded. Conversely, a black woman's beauty, especially when it's sort of privilege, when it is so readily noticed by other people, can be a threat to the order of things. And because of what I've described, this, like, abominable nation, there's far less privilege to squeeze out of beauty when you are a black woman. That has me thinking about beauty as self-authored. I wanna wear makeup and adorn myself in a way that feels rebellious and disruptive to the current system, right? Like, I wanna wear makeup to please myself and make myself feel strong, not for, like, the male gaze, certainly for the white patriarchy. I'm thinking of beauty as rebellion, as disruption, as cultural return. And how cool does beauty and makeup become when you think of it as a tool to buck up against oppression? Anyway, let me know your thoughts. Bye.