The #KylieJennerChallenge Is One More Example of Cultural Appropriation

Tanning beds, lip plumpers, butt implants, extensions, and colored contacts are all methods young women can use to give themselves a completely different outer appearance. Whether Kylie's lips are meant to mimic the features of Latinas, Blacks, Asians, Armenians, or even aliens (I don't put it past the Internet!) isn't the real reason I'm offended. What I take issue with is that we're sending a message to young women: "The body you came to this Earth in is not enough, alterations are required." My big lips, supersize derriere, thunder thighs, and Afro hair will NEVER look like Kylie Jenner's, no matter how many shot glasses I suck on, but I was born different — and that is a positive.