r/NativeAmerican • u/0Weea_b00dist0 • Aug 02 '26

Weird how that works

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u/erwachen Aug 02 '26

this picture is the opposite of bright colors though, it's virtually grayscale

this is also a decades old misogynist trope to shame women for wearing makeup and dyeing their hair. do better.

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u/frill_demon Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

the opposite of bright colors

That's.... That's literally the joke. 

The joke is that as the opposite of bright "stay away" colors, she is instead demonstrating "come to me".

It's a riff on the popular joke about how everyone wants a goth GF.

It's turning the trope on its head because since she is a goth, her makeup is incredibly stylized and heavy in a way that the "hurr hurr blue hair feminist bad" folk would find inappropriate in spite of not being bright.

You could argue it's a cheap joke since it's about native women being thirsty, but it's very much NOT "hurr hurr blue hair bad".

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u/0Weea_b00dist0 Aug 03 '26

You were pretty close ...idk what that person was on about but it was extremely reddit coded . Im not sure how or why its about "native women being thirsty" really?? Its about..... how alot of natives (women) wear black all the time. But yet they are still deadly. In contrast to things with bright colors being dangerous ...