Why doesn't marine life get sunburned? Or the animals on the savannah? My little layer of living cells has transformed over my lifetime. When I was young, I would coat myself with baby oil and, quite literally, bake myself to a nice, brown roast under the sun's rays. This was considered healthy back in the day. Eventually, a medical condition unrelated to my Easy-Bake childhood now comes with the lovely side-effect of my having to take a medication known to cause skin cancer. Now I wear UVSkinz, and I am careful to minimize my exposure to sunlight, especially after 12pm in the half of the year we here in the South call 'summer'.
The irony of white people trying to make their skin darker while simultaneously deriding those with dark skin is not lost on me. I mean, how crazy is that? I will never understand the psycho-anthropological underpinnings of class stratification. A person is a person is a person, regardless of appearance, although I know many people who have a different opinion than mine. They're wrong.
Has anyone other than me ever wondered why fur seems to prevent animals from getting sunburned? Why do these wavelengths of light not penetrate an elephant hide? Or a dolphin's epidermis? Surely the manufacturers of sunscreen have looked into what prevents marine life from the sun's detrimental impacts. I understand that the deeper one dives in the water, the less the rays are able to penetrate. Do we know why? Is diffraction that strong? If it is, why do I need sunscreen when I'm in water?
Sigh. OK, I'll stop thinking now.
The irony of white people trying to make their skin darker while simultaneously deriding those with dark skin is not lost on me. I mean, how crazy is that? I will never understand the psycho-anthropological underpinnings of class stratification. A person is a person is a person, regardless of appearance, although I know many people who have a different opinion than mine. They're wrong.
Has anyone other than me ever wondered why fur seems to prevent animals from getting sunburned? Why do these wavelengths of light not penetrate an elephant hide? Or a dolphin's epidermis? Surely the manufacturers of sunscreen have looked into what prevents marine life from the sun's detrimental impacts. I understand that the deeper one dives in the water, the less the rays are able to penetrate. Do we know why? Is diffraction that strong? If it is, why do I need sunscreen when I'm in water?
Sigh. OK, I'll stop thinking now.