Racism & Colorism
This term describes discrimination against people based on skin tone, favoring lighter skin.
What is colorism?
This industry profits off insecurities by selling products like makeup, skin creams, and procedures.
What is the beauty industry?
This movement challenges patriarchal norms and promotes gender equality.
What is feminism?
This term describes societal bias against larger bodies.
What is fatphobia?
This term describes the process of reducing people to objects for visual pleasure.
What is objectification?
This historical practice linked race and labor, reinforcing prejudice against darker skin.
What is slavery?
This term refers to the cycle of promoting unattainable beauty ideals to create endless consumer demand.
What is capitalism perpetuating beauty standards?
This type of objectification treats women’s bodies as visual commodities for male pleasure.
What is eroticized depiction?
The idea that men must be dominant, aggressive, and unemotional is called this.
What is toxic masculinity?
Unlike women, men’s objectification does not typically override this fundamental concept.
What is consent?
The belief in racial superiority that underpins systemic oppression.
What is white supremacy?
These products lighten skin to conform to Eurocentric beauty ideals.
What are skin-lightening creams?
This feminist critique argues that beauty standards reduce women’s value to their looks.
What is the devaluation of women?
Workplace discrimination, healthcare disparities, and mental health challenges are effects of this.
What is fatphobia?
The portrayal of women as passive objects meant for male gratification reinforces these societal structures.
What are patriarchy and gender norms?
A common racial stereotype that exoticizes women based on their body type.
What is fetishization?
This term describes the condition where women feel their worth is based solely on appearance.
What is beauty sickness?
Women’s agency is sometimes used against them by promoting beauty norms that benefit men.
What is oppressive recruitment?
Feminists argue that thinness is equated with moral superiority due to these two systems.
What are patriarchy and capitalism?
While men can experience objectification, they do not face this systemic issue daily like women do.
What is systemic objectification?
This global system of exploitation spread racial hierarchies through conquest and oppression.
What is colonialism?
The idea that lighter skin is more attractive and provides better opportunities is rooted in this historical system.
What is colonialism?
While men can be objectified, it differs from women’s experience because of this systemic factor.
What is systemic objectification?
This term refers to how men are portrayed as self-centered and manipulative in media.
What is ideological scripting?
The portrayal of women as passive objects meant for male gratification reinforces these societal structures.
What are patriarchy and gender norms?