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Um. When you say “dead white person,” do you mean as seen in a funeral parlor, or do you have other experiences with dead bodies???? Re why a brown pig might be pink under the hair, maybe hair just doesn’t necessarily match skin? I have known black cats with pink skin…
Oh, funeral parlor, for sure. And i know they paint the body in a funeral parlor so I have to admit I don’t actually know what color a dead body is, of any race, for real, outside of movies or maybe photojournalism! But there was something waxy and bloodless about it, and it just was so pale pink, it was a little eerie. Pigs are so close to human-sized in so many ways, it’s just unnerving.
Most of the animals I’ve had, their skin matches their hair color, to an extent at least– my cat is gray and her skin is white-gray; we had two tabbies simultaneously when I was a kid and one had brown skin and the other gray, and you could tell even though their fur was the same color by the sort of undertone it gave their coloring. But the brown one had white fur all around his nose, and his exposed nose was pink. I had a white horse whose skin was mostly gray, but she had some Appaloosa parentage, and while her coat never quite came up in spots, she had some dappling on her hipbones, and her nose and eyes had mottled pink-and-black skin around them, visible where the hair petered out.
I don’t know what this pig looked like with its hair on, because I don’t know which of the 20 or so pigs it was, but I could see enough traces to know that it had at least some black hair. But there wasn’t really any variation in the color of its skin! So I thought that was strange.
Um. When you say “dead white person,” do you mean as seen in a funeral parlor, or do you have other experiences with dead bodies???? Re why a brown pig might be pink under the hair, maybe hair just doesn’t necessarily match skin? I have known black cats with pink skin…
Oh, funeral parlor, for sure. And i know they paint the body in a funeral parlor so I have to admit I don’t actually know what color a dead body is, of any race, for real, outside of movies or maybe photojournalism! But there was something waxy and bloodless about it, and it just was so pale pink, it was a little eerie. Pigs are so close to human-sized in so many ways, it’s just unnerving.
Most of the animals I’ve had, their skin matches their hair color, to an extent at least– my cat is gray and her skin is white-gray; we had two tabbies simultaneously when I was a kid and one had brown skin and the other gray, and you could tell even though their fur was the same color by the sort of undertone it gave their coloring. But the brown one had white fur all around his nose, and his exposed nose was pink. I had a white horse whose skin was mostly gray, but she had some Appaloosa parentage, and while her coat never quite came up in spots, she had some dappling on her hipbones, and her nose and eyes had mottled pink-and-black skin around them, visible where the hair petered out.
I don’t know what this pig looked like with its hair on, because I don’t know which of the 20 or so pigs it was, but I could see enough traces to know that it had at least some black hair. But there wasn’t really any variation in the color of its skin! So I thought that was strange.
