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Here's another rant with another bit of common knowledge and another question to the world. Common knowledge: Being in the sun can give you tan, humans have manufactured tanning salons which some people are all too happy to go to.
Question: Why? What is it that's so favorable about browner skin? Some seem to think it's an amazing way to show that they're healthy and attractive. Regardless of whether or not that's true, you sure as hell can't say the same about their mental health.
How normal or sane does this sound? "I sit out in the sun for hours to darken the color of my skin so I'll be healthier and everyone will like me!"
or
"I go to a building to get painted orange and sit in an oven for a while so I can go home, spread orange goo everywhere, and generally be exactly the same as before at the end of the day!"
WTF. Need I bring up the skin cancer thing? Some of these some people that love melinin too much have just enough brain damage to tink that anyone that isn't a fried fishstick like themselves is a pale, ugly ghost. Personally, I like the look of snow white skin, there's something oddly scary/beautiful about it, don't ask what I'm sure I don't know.

Orange, brown, bronze, why? Why would you care if you were just a little paler than your freinds are? Right, of course, what was I thinking, I forgot that people haven't evolved beyond giving a rat's a** about SKIN color. Morons

BOTTOM LINE: Skin color should mean very, very, VEEERY little to anyone, it should mean even less to people whose skin colors are the SAME.

That's this week's rant, I'm Varmeip, Goodnight.