Looks like more of the same.
Fair, especially since Weinstein was just elected President.
And everyone is working for Hollywood and really is impacted day to day by Weinstein. Even that lady down the street, who you think works at the DMV? Nope, works for Weinstein.
See, they’re right, the world really is one giant liberal conspiracy! THE MEMES WERE TRUE!
The reason there’s a market for skin lightening creams across the globe is that pale skin is associated with a life of leisure and wealth, darker skin with agricultural labour, and its been that way in sunny countries since before the white man came along. All those rich high caste Indians girls i see are way whiter than my river fisherman genes. I did read through the stories and found one actual Nigerian complaining (the rest were Westerners) but it aint gonna stop people buying them. I think this is one of those issues where there’s a big cultural gap. I dont see African and Asian women demanding white women stop injecting shit into their faces and tits to achieve their beauty standards.
Yeah, I agree there’s definitely a cultural bias going on here. As you say, “fair” skin has a long history of desirability on, say, China, where it’s primarily a class indicator (providing an interesting contrast to US-California beauty standards of tan bodies…but that’s another topic).
I can’t count the number of skin care ads I’ve seen in Singapore that talked about fair skin.
However, I think it’s slightly more complex than that in the modern era. I think that many countries with colonial history transferred some of that class-bias to a more explicit race-bias, further confounded by the fact that the (white) colonialists tended to be on the top of the economic and social structures in those eras.
But, yeah, I think most Westerners who see this are only seeing a small portion of the whole story.
This add has nothing to do with racism. Cultural ignorance at its finest.
Yes and no, I think. As CLWheeljack says, the legacy of colonialism and internal as well as external racism, where white was deliberately promoted as superior to black or non-white to support political, cultural, and social hegemonies has a huge part to play here. A company associated with white Western society pushing whitening products sends a different message than is the case when similar ideas–or actions–are exhibited by people in non-Western, non-white cultures.
In addition, I would push back a bit on the idea that the desire for lighter skin entirely predates colonialism. I’ll buy that the basic difference between those who had to work in the sun and those who did not is ancient, no question there. And it’s a pretty likely that early on folks associated lighter skin with less work, and hence, more power or prestige. I would also think, however, that colonialism exploited and deliberately enhanced those predilections for its own purposes.
Whether that matters or not depends I suppose on how one views these things.
Trump is an elected president responsible for an entire nation and meant to represent all of us. Weinstein is the private industry, a secret monster unearthed that we can hope the justice system takes care of. The comparison is ridiculous.
I certainly realise this issue has been updated for our post-colonial, globalised times, but I also think that making this about racism originates in from Westerners wanting to make it about themselves as well as telling developing countries what they should and should not be doing. The campaigns seem not to come from the countries where the goods are sold, where it’s still horribly indicative of class, caste, status and poverty. I think that’s where the drive for change should come from.
No argument there, though the motivations can certainly be debated. Seems to be a mix of genuine concern, and self-centered feel-good stuff sometimes.
And weinstein is actually getting punished for his actions, while trump is making bank as president. Not exactly the same results.
Well my response was basically to the weirdo remark above that thinks comparing the actions of women to what Weinstein has done and Trump is somehow in the same book let alone on the same page.
Did the anti-revenge porn “send us your nudes” thing already get covered here?
Facebook: “Send us your nudes so we can protect you from revenge porn!”
As part of a revenge-porn prevention measure Facebook piloted in Australia, you can upload your nudes through Messenger; then Facebook will digitally scan them using machine learning and block anyone else from uploading that exact same photo. Facebook says it’s not storing the photos anywhere, only a digital “hash” of it (basically a 1s and 0s version). Buuuut…at least one employee has to see the photos and verify it’s actually a nude and not like, a photo of Trump.
Also from Buzzfeed (November):
In an attempt to combat the rise of revenge porn on its platform, Facebook is asking users to upload any nude photos they think may be distributed without consent — a process which involves a Facebook employee reviewing the uploaded images.
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The entire process is as follows:
- A person worried that intimate photos of themselves are being shared online fills out a form on the eSafety Commissioner’s website;
- The user then sends the photo(s) to themselves on Facebook Messenger;
- While this is happening, the eSafety Commissioner’s office notifies Facebook of the person’s submission;
- Facebook’s community operations team uses “image matching technology” to prevent the image being uploaded or shared online. At least one “specially-trained representative” will review your image(s) before hashing them.
- Hashing an image converts it into a digital fingerprint — a series of numbers — that are used to block attempts to upload the image to Facebook’s platforms.
- The user is then prompted by Facebook to delete the image they have sent to themselves.
In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook confirmed that at least one company employee will view the nude photos users upload.
That would be so cool. No more pictures of Trump on Facebook. We can dream, right?
Send us your nudes. Really? Upload to us your nude pics so we can make sure no one else can upload them.
Life has become so absurd.
It’s like there is some Pervert Shadow King that gets off on large quantities of nudes of the public. See: TSA scanners from almost ten years ago, and the Ivy League freshman nudes. Bonus points if the nude people have the wherewithal to go to Harvard, travel by air, or use Facebook. It’s been diminishing returns the last few years.
There sure are some dumb motherfuckers on FB’s local news affiliates tonight here in SW Ohio. That trickle down is gonna just rain the benjamins down on their trailer courts.