Is it normal to be offended at "ew, you're so pale, please get a tan!"

Um, YEAH. i dont think everyone enjoys skin cancer. And to be quite honest, pale can be sexy i think!! the only people who would say that are vain and shallow asshats. Pay it no mind :)

you should answer: "Ew, you're so dumb, please get a brain!"

I don't get what's attractive about a tan. You burn your skin to make it orange and have a higher risk of cancer, congatulations.

You have every right to be offended. There would be hell to pay if a light-skinned person went up to a black person and said, "You're too dark."

It's hilarious for me because I'm actually half Moroccan (a country in Africa) from my father's side and he's pretty dark. But I'm pale/yellow complexion with dark hair and eyes. I bet I'm the whitest African American in the world, but I'm proud of it and I say screw whoever has a problem with your skin tone.

Some people just take pride in looking like leatherbags

Don't get a tan. Everyone is getting tans now-a-days and it's unattractive and unnatural. Pale skin is sexy. Don't let anyone let you otherwise.

You know what i would say?

"Bitch, Please. Look at yourself, you're seriously asking me to be as FAKE as you, you're trying to be someone you're not. It truly is pitiful. You try to hide the fact that you're so ugly that you need makeup and all that fake crap to make yourself look good? What you don't realize is that when you do that - you make smigel look like Keira Knightley"

Tell them you don't want skin cancer.

If they have a problem with your skin tone the problem is them not you.

im mid 30s, worked in the sun my whole life and now have sun spots and probably developing sun cancers on my hands,arms and face, any of you pastey white kids want to swap

hey who cares what those people think. who is going to be laughing when they get skin cancer from cooking their skin all the time. i will take pale skin over that any day!

Lol this post reminds me of Snooki. I read her autobiography and she kept saying she hates pale people. Well even though I can't see you I'm sure there's nothing wrong with how you look. I'm tan in the summer, but any other time of the year I'm pale lol

Pale is in! Tell them to shove it! I do tan..but it's for a medical condition.

I know what you mean. I hear it all of the time too.

I'm quite pale aswell (Click my username to see a picture of how pale I am) and I haven't been told to get a tan before. I think the more pale someone is, the better.

It's totally normal. I'm the palest person in my family and they all say I need to get more sun and I tend to take offense to that D:

This happens quite a lot. It's just a joke.

People tell me that all the time. A lot of people have come up to me and told me I look like a vampire. I'm pale and my teeth are quite pointy as well. I burn really easily, so I can't tan at all. I don't mind being pale anyway, but it does get annoying when people criticises about it.

People are jealous that's all. Some races from Africa, Asia, etc. dream of being lighter skinned and go to extremes to try to emulate Caucasions. To make up for it white people act like it is desirable to be darker. Even though they wouldn't trade it for the world and would never want to be black.

yeah its annoying af, like some people just dont tan, get the fuck on with your life bro

You are pretty just the way you are. Anyone who tells you otherwise since you dont have a tan deserves to be slapped across the face. I myself like pale women. So this would not be an issue for me personally as I find it pretty. They are probobly just jealousy they are not as pretty as you so ignore them.

Being fair complected is much more desirable than the tanning mom look or the unnatural orange look.

I seriously only find pale people attractive, don't listen to them!

My buddy (who is a Phillipino dude) told me that women in his country take pills and creams to try to make their skin whiter. It's a status symbol in his country. He said he was really confused when he came to America and went to the beach and saw loads of white women tanning. He said it would be great if they could trade skin with his wife/other Phillipino friends so they would stop wasting money on the whitening crap.

And then he asked me later on why many white women look so much older at 30-40 than ethnic women.
I told him that it was because they likely did a lot of tanning when they were younger and for white people, it accelerates the aging process.

My Aunt is 45 and definitely looks her age. She's a ritualistic tanner and has been for many years.
My Mother, who posseses the same genes has never tanned and although she is pale as hell, she is 44 and is easily mistaken for a woman in her early-mid thirties. It makes white people age more quickly. It is unnatural and kills your skin cells.

Ask them how they feel about your skin in... say... 20-30 years. I'm sure they will have quite a different opinion.

I think any sentence starting with the word "EW" directed at you is offensive. lol

Everyone at my college loves paleness, it's the in thing right now seriously I haven't tanned in years and neither have my friends...skin cancer is not nice.

I think pale skin is really attractive, personally. I'm Danish, so I know what it's like to be super pale...

Besides, the choice between "classic beauty fair skin" and "tanning-bed orange" is pretty clear to me. Fake tans are gross. Tanning lines are unattractive. People that let their skin do its natural thing in regards to tone are attractive.

Its funny how things come around. 100 years ago, if you had a tan, you would be "A poor laborer", and looked down upon by the well-to-do pale people. now the tan people are the ones with the nasty comments.
Im mostly pale, except for my arms and neck from working outside.

I think most people who actually go tanning are self-absorbed.

I have very fair skin and I like it the way it is. If someone doesnt like it, well screw them, right?
Just enjoy your skin the way it was supposed to be

Parts of me glow in the dark but I'm not worried. I don't want to look like an old brown leather wallet when I'm 40.

You should have seen me before i could nearly be mistaken for a ghost i was so pale that one of my friends just to annoy me a bit and for fun called me mr.pale

If they hate you for being pale more than likely they hate you for being pure white.just my two cents.

I'm pale and nobody ever told me to get a tan. I'd be pissed off if they did though. Why should I have to follow someone else's useless trends?

It's one thing for people to be like "dang girl, you're pale!" and point out your color, but for people to tell you to get a tan? Thats just freaking RUDE.
If I heard anything along the lines of "Please change the color of your skin I'm disgusted at looking at you!" There would be hell to pay.
Embrace your paleness. You'll be the last one laughing after they all die from skin cancer ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Norwegians practically live their lives outdoors and they are some of the palest people in the world.