It’s rare for original thoughts to crop up on TikTok, but Sarah Schauer (@sarahschauer) from Los Angeles, California, came up with a beauty standards theory that caught her gasping on camera. Upon reading the book The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair, Schauer thought that there may be a link to colorblindness and the perception of beauty.
Schauer explained in her post that one in twelve men are colorblind, whereas one in two hundred women are colorblind. While most colorblind people can’t join the military, because different sides wore corresponding colors. But there was an exemption made during World War II and the Vietnam War.
