because I’m frankly tired of doing so.  In this edition of LTLCCTPUTBP, Lindy West, one of those people you see described as “incredible” and “whip-smart” so often that you know they’re probably a Malcolm Gladwell-level dispenser of gob-smackingly obvious axioms seemingly composed only for the purpose of congratulatory back-pats from ideological  comrades, hems and haws about differential beauty standards, ‘cultural colonialism,’ and her ignorance of how phenotypes are distributed in any given population:

On the other hand, I am obviously uncomfortable with whiteness infiltrating the standards of beauty of other cultures, and it’s something that needs be bitched about. That is some insidious shit, and the internalization of white beauty ideals damages a lot of people (mostly women). It’s also a really difficult thing to police, so if a culture determines for itself that that infiltration is not acceptable, then I support that determination…

A white woman (hypothetically) becoming Miss India does not have the same cultural impact as a black woman becoming Miss America. White people already win all the stuff. A black woman winning Miss America is adjusting that disparity in the right direction. A white woman winning Miss India is basically cultural colonialism. Trying to analyze this situation as though the global playing field is level veers uncomfortably close to “reverse racism” territory, which is a concept even stupider than beauty pageants.