when i tell you authors reaching saying their book is unique and just employing the same copy paste techniques
My book, the most beautiful woman has raven black hair (dark brown hair) and brown eyes
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aS SHE SHOULD PERIODT
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You ever notice how many Asian characters have purple hair or a purple streak in their hair to distinguish that they’re rebellious Asians instead of math Asians?
(And I know that some of these aren’t purple but purple is usually the designated Asian color)
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ohmagawd yes ugh
when i tell u i could go on and on about this
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i mean it’s still light eyes (even though humans can’t actually have does eyes) and light eyes because of European beauty standards are considered the most beautiful, besides it offends a lot of bipoc because it makes it to be that our most common features aren’t enough and we need a little bit of lightness (light eyes/hair and giving us european features like slim noses etc…)
Overall it offends a lot of bipoc and for the right reasons.
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omg I just noticed
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at the end of the day 
let bipoc characters have bipoc features my man
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the hair color is the personality
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Oh, so you think it’s about beauty ? It’s a very valid take, but I think that’s why we disagree a bit. I don’t think the colours are really about the beauty of the character, I think it’s just about having a visual contrast to highlight powers. But as I said, it’s a completely personal view, I don’t have much to back it up except personal experience with some of my own characters.
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Yes! All we are asking for is beautiful brown hair 
we do not need light feautures
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It is definitely about beauty.
A lot of characters who are bipoc and supposed to be seen as “attractive” or exotic usually have light eyes. You could literally search it up on google and see why the white hair, blue eyes is harmful for bipoc.
We have said many times it is harmful and it is.
Storm and her family are worshipped and seemed as beautiful, powerful etc because of their white and blue hair, as if having brown hair and brown eyes won’t make it done. Storm is supposed to be seen as different in her african country and that is why she is worshipped.
Also like I said it’s not like I don’t have light hair, some poc can have light hair and I have characters with “light hair” though I don’t like a lot of bipoc light tropes. It is severely harmful
Anyway I literally said it annoyed/offended a lot of bipoc and their opinions/feelings shouldn’t be annoyed or hurt.
Know for Katara in avatar, I kind of understand that one/don’t care as it is more of elemetens (water= blue, earth= green etc…) and at least she has dark brown hair.
And in the las article I showed you this is a good impute/explanation
“Green/blue eyes (and even light brown and hazel eyes) are typically seen as prettier than dark brown eyes. Dark brown eyes are usually seen in black, native and Asian communities and therefore like our skin color and other features, are deemed ugly. So when white creators make characters of color, but can’t be bothered to also portray features on us that are usually stigmatized, it is still racist. It is still pushing harmful ideas that brown eyes aren’t beautiful, and people of color in fantasy, sci-fi or any setting can only exist with some form of white features.”
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Brown eyes can also highlight those powers, yer know. “Now I also wanna make it clear, speaking for black folks specifically that—making a black character with green/blue eyes and white hair isn’t bad by default, Most of my black ocs have white hair and different colored eyes, that’s their species. And as black people, we are allowed to see ourselves in fantasy settings that deviate from the norm. esp if we as black people aren’t doing it to push away our features (bcs some black ppl do). But on the other hand it’s just as important to represent black people with dark brown eyes, coily hair, etc.”
there is generally nothing wrong with giving us light features, it is sometimes fascinating though we should also get to see dark brown eyes/hair as fascinating features, romantic features, powerful features, features that are not plain and beautiful mythical creatures.
it’s not only light things that could be all that, brown eyes can me amazing and fascinating (there is literally a whole bunch of brown eye colors and their beautiful, and in someone’s else eyes it might appear differently and that is amazing), to been seen as something romantic, (a lot of stories normally emphasized on the beauty of light eyes or talk about how plain brown eyes are) and to be seen as something special.
That is all we are asking for, we are not asking for much or is this much? Being tired of the light colored stuff on Asian, black, native American, Middle eastern, brown Latinos?
In other words we want dark brown hair + dark brown eyes because they are badass
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Okay, Wikipedia, but I can’t exactly base my opinion on articles titled “dark skinned blondes”, because, as I said, I don’t associate white hair with blondes. That casts out two articles, and I can’t base my entire opinion on one opinion article either, I’d have to compare it to another one.
Concerning your point on it being harmful, that’s not what I’m debating. Sure, I understand why it can be perceived as offensive. What I am pointing out is that, in my opinion, the reason why it is considered offensive is what @katabasis said:
And I think that the real problem here would be that, to put it in very general terms, non-white characters are under-represented in “classic” fiction. As a result, the proportion of those characters with uncommon features, such as white hair, is much higher, and the common features of the ethnic groups involved are undermined. Do you see what I mean ?
I mean, I can’t argue with you here, because I haven’t read the comics in a while, but I don’t remember Storm ever being considered beautiful. Powerful, yes, and the art makes her quite pretty, like all characters, but I don’t think she’s meant to be particularly attractive, unlike Emma Frost for example. Then again, as I said, I’m not sure about that.
But that’s usually the reason for most characters, though. I completely agree with your point in the other post, I just don’t think it’s applicable to characters that have changing eyes because of certain powers. That’s literally just my entire point.
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Have we all forgotten about Luke Cage? He is powerful too (not massive powerful like Carol or Monica but like yes). He is a Hero for Hire, an awesome dad, a great husband and one of my fave superheroes 
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Plus his eye colour or hair colour doesn’t change when he “uses” his powers.
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To be fair though, he’s bald.
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Question before I answer anything are you a bipoc? No
Nowadays at least.
No, but does that mean I can’t think ?
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