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		victor106 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a... > I'll never understand some people's fetishization with getting darker via tanning though While some darker skin people want to have lighter skin. Maybe at some deeper level it’s something about being human. We always want something the other person has

Bridged7756 7 days ago | [–]

I'm pretty sure it's just cultural. They don't want to be fairer, or darker, they want the social status that it, allegedly, signals.

prmoustache 7 days ago | [–]

> We always want something the other person has

This. Same with curly vs straight hair.

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