this is Gina, I’m on blogcation, but I thought y’all might find this “amusing.”The folks over at GraffitiScrawledBathroomWalls.com aka Hipster Racist Headquarters around here have taken time out of their very busy schedule to provide a critique of First Lady Michelle Obama’s eyebrows.
I love the first lady, I really do. But lately she looks like Cruella de Vil’s aesthetician has gotten her hands on her. What’s with her eyebrows? When she kicked off her campaign to fight childhood obesity on Tuesday they looked almost like stick-ons. Ariana’s Playhouse
Karen Tanabe goes on to basically say the First Lady’s brows made her look like and Angry Black Woman (GASP!):
When Barack Obama was in it to win it, journalists wrote that Michelle Obama’s brows were going to lose the election for him. Too harsh, too severe they said. Well that seemed a tad harsh, but they did look almost triangular. Americans were screaming that they were more angled than Jack Nicholson’s, Bill O’Reilly said her intense look was too angry, etc. etc. and Michelle Obama’s makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles finally listened. They came down a few millimeters and were filled in a tad too.
Wow, what a burden Black women must bear in order to reassure non-Black people that we are not angry. Ms. Tanabe is so oblivious that her “privilege” is showing- why else would she think its a Black woman’s responsibility to alter her appearance to make women like Ms. Tanabe more comfortable. Golly Gee, Black women have nothing to be angry about.
Posted by Gina.
