I've seen a lot of discourse in the bookstagram (book Instagram) community at the moment about authors who describe black/brown skin as chocolate, mocha, honey coloured etc. Do you find it weird or do you not feel any particular way about it?
Not sure if I've used the right tag I wasn't sure how to catagorize this 😅
I personally don’t care because it’s a descriptor to best explain a shade, it’s often used in story writing as well because it’s the closest way of creating a visual understanding when paired with other things.
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That honey is albino.
The cool honey?
Edit: oh I see it nevermind
Honestly, both. I wouldn't eat honey that oddly hued.
I am fine with self-identification or describing my family members as such, but it's inappropriate to apply terminology to anyone else unwarrantedly and there are other words to describe colors beyond food or desserts.
I prefer to be compared to woods, but that’s a personal thing.
In general, the thung that pissed me off when people compared my skin colour to foods was just how far off they were. I feel as if too many non-Black folks act as if there are three foods to compare us to – coffee, chocolate, and cinnamon – which ignores the rest of us who don’t match any of that.
(For reference, I kind of look like my avatar.)
I personally don't care, but I wouldn't do it because I know it bothers a lot of people. I also describe white skin like food sometimes soooooo
I don't even think I know any food that would be used for white skin 😅 marshmallow maybe?
I literally met a woman once who described herself as a marshmallow: white and squishy.
I fucks with that. ðŸ¤
Mayonnaise. Especially if it's an undesirable person.
For undesirable people I will sometimes describe the color of bird droppings.
Creepy! It makes me worry about cannibals and snuff flicks.
As long as I'm not being called a Nubian queen, I'll be ok.
If I need to describe a person skin color I make a comparison with another well-known person. Example: "similar to Steph Curry", instead of "the color of banana pudding".
Don’t really care