what is beautiful black woman?

[Basra-]

When Lupita was getting lashed in the film

Marq

I personally like her copulation scenes with Michael Fassbender. (the white master) Very, moving.

[Abubamboo]

This is black beauty!




inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon

[LobsterUnit]

Lupita has a beautiful fade and sharp haircut.i think she uses the same barber as me.

[Cherine]

is there one?

[Khaalid8]

Alek Wek!

[BlackVelvet]

Lists like that have more to do with what products they're trying to sell more so than genuine ranking.


2003

The actress, then 36, had just made history as the first-ever African-American actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (for Monster's Ball,) and was about to reprise her role as Storm in X2: X-Men United when she graced the cover.

Same thing year on year it's the people who won an award or have a movie out or coming out or had an interesting change in their lives to be interviewed about.

[Aezana]

Lists like that have more to do with what products they're trying to sell more so than genuine ranking.


2003

The actress, then 36, had just made history as the first-ever African-American actress to win an Academy Award for Best Actress (for Monster's Ball,) and was about to reprise her role as Storm in X2: X-Men United when she graced the cover.

Same thing year on year it's the people who won an award or have a movie out or coming out or had an interesting change in their lives to be interviewed about.

Like I'd never heard of Ryan Reynolds nor did the media go on and on about how he's apparently in good shape and good looking until he started showing up in a lot of big/ famous movies for a little while...

[BlackVelvet]

^^ It's all about the money

[grandpakhalif]

Islam already taught us this the most beautiful man on earth was Nabi Yusuf (AS) and he was Israelite (son of Jacob). Even in paradise his beauty is the standard, so that's the standard of beauty.

[hydrogen]

Islam already taught us this the most beautiful man on earth was Nabi Yusuf (AS) and he was Israelite (son of Jacob). Even in paradise his beauty is the standard, so that's the standard of beauty.

[garoweboy]

These are my kind of women. The top 2 are Ethiopians

[zulaika]

Islam already taught us this the most beautiful man on earth was Nabi Yusuf (AS) and he was Israelite (son of Jacob). Even in paradise his beauty is the standard, so that's the standard of beauty.

Most beautiful man is nabi Yusuf, ...ummm ok no argument there, but walal this is about the standards society sets for female beauty. I don't know how you could measure a woman's beauty by how a man looks like.

[Megatron]

Lupita, though quite attractive, is not he "Most beautiful", but kudos for being recognized. And Beyoncé just looks brute. In fact, one of the most gorgeous Black women I've ever seen was a Sudanese chick I met last year in downtown Toronto. Bloody perfect! Chocolate brown, perfect skin, hair, face, teeth and a body to kill!!! Somali women though, on the whole, are still the most beautiful collectively. Agreed about Iman, as well.

[zulaika]

Black women, who have to rely on this society's consensus of beauty..as contrived by the media, are portrayed here as "most beautiful" when they look like Lupita(who looks like a black woman) and "most influential" when they look like Beyonce(who looks like a white woman). So what is the message here that is implicitly sold to black women then?

Shouldn't this be viewed as a positive? That an ethnic woman who remained true to her features is considered the 'most beautiful' woman? Isn't this a blow to the standard of beauty in Western (and many Eastern) societies? Or is this simply a marketing tool that will continue to allow major magazine companies to "pick" who is considered beautiful enough to make an arbitrary list year in and year out? How long are we going to consume and be apart of these corporal beauty pageants?

Like Jasmine said, nothing genuine about how the media manipulates pop culture, people's perceptions etc.. they are always about the bottom line..and unfortunately what sells equals what people want.. Is Lupita what people want? Or she is perhaps being used as a marketing ploy to "manufacture" favourable sentiment for women of color. This is all for the bottom line imo, to further exploit a disenfranchised group of women whose own image of themselves was laid to waste by catalyst of the same "influential" machine. So the inner struggle continues.. what is beauty and who decides it...I think it's very clear this is completely outside of the individual female's grasp. She's born with it, or not..but it's not for her to decide. society = eye of the beholder

[zulaika]

I must be the BEST looking woman around by Somali standards then, ticked all the boxes