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Because we rule... this is the slogan of Covergirl's Queen Collection advertisement. This ad features a beautiful dark-skinned model, something people in our contemporary society would not typically think twice about. Which is a lovely concept, especially when you think about all the racial discrimination in our past, and even the still persisting discrimination today. That aside, take a moment to look at this ad: Covergirl is a company that creates beauty products for women, for women to "feel good" about themselves. And where every little girl loves to feel like a princess, every woman loves to consider herself a queen, and Covergirl is c

I stand in the rain coming down inside the huge open room, staring out the window, out into the worlds of beautiful, living people. There is no chance for me, I got myself in too far. I thought this would make all the pain go away, but instead it got passed on to all those other people. "Dance with me and pretend the world doesn't exist," he pleads. After this, there will be no going back. Taking his cold hands, feeling the cold rain pour down my  skin, I realize I am the only warm thing left here. And even the bit of warmth left in me is slipping away. "Can I go back?" I ask. "Why would you ask that? This is what you get when you dance w