When you are depressed or suicidal people say just reach out. I have reached out and all I get is treated badly and treated like sh*t by people. I made the mistake of reaching out again. I am very open about how I wished I was born with blonde hair and blue eyes as I will be seen as pretty by society and especially men. I want to love my black hair and brown eyes but I just can't. So I asked for advice on the r/babies ladies sub on reddit. My thread is now deleted.
This is what wrote orginally
"I am a 24 year old black woman and I absoultely hate my black hair and brown eyes. I wish i was born with blonde hair and blonde blue eyes because it seen as pretty by society and I feel like men will find me more attractive if I was a pretty blonde woman. Most men prefer blondes look at how they chase after them and look at how popular this hair colour is.
At secondary school I was always the invisible social outsider girl who never had guy really like her. At school I was always naturally confident answering questions in class, speaking at school assemblies and talking to people but I always the invisible girl who never had a guy really like her for who she is. At school all the other girls had guys who liked them and show them love. The black boys at school would make fun of the black girls appearance or just promote stereotypes about black girls and instead want girls from from other racial group. They were just as bad as the white boys. The worst thing about being a black woman is growing up knowing you will never be seen as beautiful by society.
I am still the invisible woman in adulthood.
I absoultely hate my hate colour and eye colour because it is dull and boring compared to other hair colours and eye colours. It is so not fair white people have all these range of eye colours but black people we just have one dull eye colour: brown.
I can not die my hair blonde because I risk permanently damaging my hair. If I could physically change my appearance I get rid of both my black hair and brown eyes because I feel like it has ruined everything for me. My personality will never be enough.
Please help me get over my obsession. "
The women on the sub accused me of being a troll, an awful troll all because I made a thread last month asking if I can be committed feminist while married to a man. I made the thread because my radical feminist criticised my desire to be married.
Other say brown eyes are not dull and I see need see more positive images of black women. All I got was just love yourself and dismissed everything.
Honestly I really thought these people would actually understand but no.
I couldn't agree more about the first part. Doctors & repair men abandon me to my toxic home, Gaslighting me...
But I couldn't agree more with trying to find a way to love yourself.
I wish I was a tall man instead of a tiny girl. I understand.
Yes you can bleach your hairs, it will ruin them but they will go back. Yes you can wear blue contacts. But it will irritate your eyes & prevent proper oxygenation.
You can even cover your skin in pink and get surgery to fix your african nose, like michael jackson.
Does it sound like love to you or self loathing?
I assure you, the blond girls aren't loved. They're used as sex doll trophy. They aren't loved for who they are. They atteact creeps, pedo, rapists, they're the nazi perfection.
I saw a movie, i think it was the secret. A black woman said that she didn't have a black role model growing up, only whites, and she couldn't relate to someone who didn't look like her. But as she grew, she learned to love her chocolate skin & pompom afro. She was glowing with self love, serenity, and attractive.
I think black men go for blond girls because they are a status symbol. I wish africans embeaced their culture and promoted it as cool (like tamtam parties on my mountain) instead to try to immitate white people's superficial crap. So many anorexics... So many girgeous red hairs and dark goddesses ruined by bleach to confirm to hitler's idea of beauty.
Please... Embrace your unique beauty. I'm sorry that high school kids are shalliw with a twisted idea of what is desirable... Try to hold on until people mature ..
Learning self love and making the best of our natural features is best.
I wish I had red hairs... And health...
Please don't try to please the majority. True love will see who you are and bond over interests. The blond babes will always have to wonder if the guy only wanted a trophy.
When you find someone, he won't seek a superficial girl from a porno... He'll be into pure african chocolate.
That's your flavor and it's okay. It's harder to find someone but it will be more genuine and precious.
I think you can be a feminist & married. You can work while he's a stay at home dad. Or enjoy a traditional wedding but by choice, not by being impised a role as a woman.
We cannot choose what we look like. But we can choose to have compassion for our unique bodies. We can envy without hating ourselves. We can wish without shame. I do my best not to dwell too much on it. I grew my dark thin ugly hairs super long and it's kinda cool. I'm almost blind so I'm just happy to have eyes at all. I don't dwell on not having perfect vision too much. I'm just happy that I didn'to become fully blind as I was told I might...
There are things far more important than color. Kindness, affection, compatibility, hobbies in common...
The world is so racist against you .. please don't internaluze the bullshit... Please don't be racist against yourself
Dress as a white blond blue eyed girl for halloween. I think it will be fun, silly, a taste of a dream... But shouldn't be everyday.
I think diversity is far more important than confirmity.
I think that what you really want is to be loved. Not be a white slut. So until people mature... At least try to love you for you?
I think your dreams & sorrows are valid. But the problem isn't your color... But people going for a visual steteotype... Instead of truly getting to know the person.
If you cannot play the superficial conformity game of white people... I'm so sorry that you feel left out... But I think it's a bad game. In the long run you'll have more fun creating your own way of life.
I have a hard time accepting my crippled body. I desperatedly envy your healthy brown body... Beat their game of never being good enough trying to go towards self acceptance?
I am replying to you. Not some perfect slut. I wouldn't change it. I prefer you.
@come to dust Virtual hug my friend

It's not easy being brown. I am just disappointed on the sub because the women on the sub thought I was a troll and others didn't really take seriously how I was feeling.
What hope have I got of things getting better if the people in my OWN racial group can't even take my concerns seriously.
The worst comments were "you have a skewered view of race"
How are my views f*cking skewered when I grew up and saw it all the f*cking time how black girls/women are not seen as attractive by society and just subject to ridicule for our appearance.
The weave jokes, the jokes about our lips, the stereotypes about our attitude etc.
>there are clear societal racial preferences and biases that no one wants to talk about.
Exactly but the women are like that's not true. I do feel like the race I was born in to has ruined my chance of ever finding love or experiencing a man actually finding me beautiful.
The users thought I was the troll. This is so not fair people post far worse bullsh *t on reddit and it gets taken more seriously. I post a genuine issue but I don't get taken seriously. The same sub has women posting pictures of themselves on their new hair and fashion style.
I am just disappointed on the sub because the women on the sub thought I was a troll and others didn't really take seriously how I was feeling.
What hope have I got of things getting better if the people in my OWN racial group can't even take my concerns seriously.
Looking in the mirror is absolute torture. My family and sometimes strangers in public say I am pretty but they do not see what I see. I absoultely hate my reflection. When I mentioned I am suicidal and abuse laxatives.
I was accused of "weaponising" my disorder and not to do that because it can triggering to the women and girls on the sub.
I am tired of reaching out and always getting treated badly or never taken seriously. All everyone ever does is let me down this is why I started abusing laxatives and purging because at least helped me no longer feel bad about anything anymore. The numbness of purging and laxative abuse is why I will never stop.
@rationaltake
The users thought I was the troll. This is so not fair people post far worse bullsh *t on reddit and it gets taken much more seriously. I post a genuine issue but I don't get taken seriously at all. The same sub has women constantly posting pictures of themselves of their new hair and fashion style.
I really thought I would find a community of people who would actually understand but no. My suicide just feels inevitable because I wanted to be normal with a career and man who loved me. I realise now none of it was meant to be.
I am tired of reaching out in women only online communities and never getting taken seriously if i express any issue bothering me. Young and old women are just as bad each other.
I don't want these feelings, I don't but no one seems actually interested in actually helping me overcome this. Everyone just wants do dismiss, dismiss, dismiss.
I can't win especially in this world.
I feel so much for you... It breaks my heart that everyone compliment you but you still only see a monster in the mirror. Why ... Who made you feel this way ...
Making yourself vomit & poisonning yourself to poop... To feel empty inside... Eating vitamin c stuff like veggies is the best laxative i ever got.
I wish I had the words to convince you to give mercy to yourself. Imagine your husband or child hating themselves the way you do no matter how much you say I love you they'd refuse to believe you...
Please... Please... Try to have self compassion. The problem is society narrow mindedness. So many blong & blue eyes girls feel like shit never feeling good enough to fit the steteotype. Please... Create your own unique flavor... The world needs it.