Both my parents are white, it only makes sense that I would be white too. So why do people fucking insist on telling me how “white” I am? Do you think I don’t know that? No, I don’t want to hold my arm up next to yours and compare. Fuck you. Go sit out in the sun half naked. I don’t care. But I’m sure as hell not joining you. Oh, you’re tan. Pat you on the fucking back. I’ll be over here, in the shade, enjoying my skin.
And don’t even get me started on that fake bake shit.
I can’t agree with you enough. Why some people want to turn perfectly good skin into leather is beyond my understanding.
About twice a year my father has to go to a dermatolagist and have things removed. Thankfully, none of them have been cancerous, but I imagine that it is only a matter of time.
When everybody gets the idea that a tan is actually damaging to the skin, maybe people will stop telling me that I look unhealthy.
As a very white chick myself, I am there with you Silver!
People give me shit because I am so white. Why don’t I go out and get some sun?
Well folks, when I was a kid I used to get severe sunburns as I was a competitive swimmer and spent my summers at the pool. I have already done enough damage that skin cancer is probably a reality for me. In higher altitude climates, we also have more skin damage caused by the sun – so they say.
In my later years I don’t want my skin looking like leather either!
I will stick with being a white chick and my monitor glow suits me just fine.
< since the OP doesn’t want to discuss tan in a bottle I wont bring it up >
No, no. Fake bake. To me that’s always meant tanning beds. Yeah, like I’m going to pay that price to do something I could for free.
I’m not fair-skinned, but I do burn. Add to that all the damage that sun exposure can do, even for non-whites, and how pathetically boring sun bathing is, and you’ll see why I never, ever lay out. Plus, it’s too dang hot.
But, can people respect that? Noooo. Listen, people, the sun is bad for everybody, not just white folks! My mom is Korean and she never wore sunblock and you should see the liver spots on her hands. Yuck. Personally, I would rather spend the 8 bucks on sunblock today than to have to pay thousands of dollars later on dermabrasion and plastic surgery.
Oh well, at least I’ll be the best looking lady in the retirement village…
What is this, an Edgar Winter look-alike contest?
:: running ::
My family is a mix of dark and light skinned people. I have light skin, espically since Im not in the sun alot. And of course they point out the obvious, duh! And then the jokes start “your so white I’m blinded ahhhh” or “look… its an albino”. oh haha. Yea at least I don’t look like I just crossed the border, dont make me call immigration on your ass!! 
I have to join in on this one. I live in Florida and when I go outside, I wear a hat and usually long pants instead of shorts. I slather my face and arms with sun block and I get some very strange looks.
I kept myself brown as a berry for years and managed to burn myself to a crisp in the process. I have had at least twenty skin cancers removed and will have one more removed this afternoon. That should do it for a while, but I will have more. That’s a given. I had one that required twenty-one radiation treatments to remove.
Believe me, a tan is not worth it.
I prefer the term ‘translucent’. better than ‘pale to the point of being clear’.
Tatertot, absolutely. The sun is bad for everyone. I’m just annoyed at how many people find it there duty to “tease” me because I lack pigmentation. It’s stupid.
Obvious, I get the “You’re giving off a glare” thing all the time. Childish if you ask me, but I’m pissed off right now. Ask me again tomorrow.
Milo, I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. Really. :rolleyes:
Nah, you know I’m kidding. That was kind of funny. BUT IT WASN’T VERY NICE!
LouisB, absolutely no offense to you, but you are exactly who I don’t want to be.
Forget white, I’m light blue! People have told me I’m really pale, but I figure that one of my missions in life is to make everyone else feel tanned - and to hand out the sunscreen when they have learned the error of their ways.
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Yep, I’m with you guys. I don’t care how much lotion you put on after you’ve been in the sun. I don’t care how much care you take, the fact is you skin is gonna look and feel like leather as you age. So enjoy your tan today as much as you can, you have years ahead of you that you won’t enjoy.
As far as tanning beds, they are the same as microwaves, they just bake you from the inside out. You would be better off to get out in the sun.
A little time in the sun, with sun block on, I think is necessary, and helps your body. But this lying out in the broiling sun for hours on end, it’s just plain dangerous.
I get that all the time from my tanned white friends, so I can only imagine how much teasing you get. I gotta wonder, would they go up to a black person and say “Oh my god you are so black I can’t see you at night unless you smile”?
And what about the idjits who question me putting sunblock on my medium-complexioned child? So what if he doesn’t burn easily? Sure, he’s at lower risk for skin cancer, but he could still get it. Not to mention wrinkles and age spots.
Do not get me started on people who insist tanning beds are better for you than the sun…grrrr.
I guess I would have preferred for you to use the word “what” instead of “you” but I know what you mean. I hope.
Whatever you meant, stay out of the sun is the best advice you can get or give.
And I thought this was a thread where you were lamenting your poor dancing skills.
Tell me about it.
I remember wearing a brand new sleeveless shirt and matching skirt to school one day in 9th grade. Some kid passed by me in the hall (didn’t even know him), and he chortled, “Get some sun!”
Fuck you. Excuse me for not wanting skin cancer, sunburn, and the leather lizardy look.
I have to chime in as a “pasty white girl” (as some high-school goat felcher once called me).
My mother’s side of the family is full of translucent-skinned redheads, and of course, this is the coloring I inherited. Half of the adults in this family have had at least one skin cancer removed before they were 40. I saw my grandfather nearly eaten away by skin cancers–he had dozens of them in his last years.
So, I have a reason to stay white. I just wish I had a picture of my grandfather to show the next asshole that comments on my color, to remind them what tans do to you after 30 years.
Yeah, I paid my dues to the sun god when I was younger. I don’t tan anyway. I freckle. So I have just rationalized my non-tanning as wanting to recapture that by-gone era when women were sexier with creamy, porcelain skin. 
I too worshipped the sun god when I was younger. Got myself a few darling 1st and 2nd degree burns for my trouble. I have skin so white that dead fish would envy it. I’ll keep it that way, thanks!
My father is Native American, but it only shows in my sisters, passed right on by me it seems. I would get laughed out of the tribal hall I think.
I sunburn from just an hour in the sun. But that’s ok, because I prefer the winter anyway.