Plastic surgeries and fairness creams - Page 2

Originally posted by: ponymo

Racism has been long existing, even before the advent of fairness creams.

The creams are just playing to the gallery. The day there's no demand for them, they will naturally cease to exist. However, the fallacious ideology that fair skin is better is so deeply ingrained in our psyche that fairness cream ads have little effect.

Fairness creams are just a miniscule part of the bigger problem. The real issue is not the cream, the issue is that what is propagated in the ads is not too far away from reality.

Originally posted by: ponymo

Racism has been long existing, even before the advent of fairness creams.

Discrimination exists. Its probably existed since dawn of time.

Does that make monetizing discrimination right? Does that make perpetuating it right?

I agree 100% that fairness creams simply reflect society. They exist because a demand exists. The problem is the demand. But some fault has to lie with the supplier.

There is demand for cheap labor. That doesn't justify the creation of sweatshops. This is an extreme example. Fairness creams are not as bad. But the point is that when you supply to a problem, you intrinsically become part of the problem. I'm not saying shift the blame away from society. Our racial tendencies are a much bigger problem than fairness creams. But we do need to acknowledge all problems.

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

The problem with fairness cream is that it propagates racist
tendencies in society telling people that fair skin is desirable while being
dark skinned is inferior and undesirable. It tells dark skinned people that
they need to change their skin tone to be acceptable. It creates an entire
cultural perception that fair is good and dark skinned people need to change
the color.

Lipstick, foundation, clothing and even plastic surgery done
for vanity reasons are a completely different ball game. The lipstick
advertisement does not tell you your lips are inferior. The eye shadow
advertisement does not tell you that there is something wrong with your eyes.
Basically these products are sold as something that will accentuate and
highlight your existing features. It doesn't create a cultural perception that
makeup or plastic surgery is necessary. There isn't a cultural bias that people
who don't wear lipstick are inferior.

Huge difference. That is why fairness creams are receiving a
lot of opposition these days.

Sometimes beauty advertisements do cross the line as well.
There is a big global pushback against the beauty industry telling
impressionable teens and youth that their appearance isn't good enough.

I love reading your posts!!! 😊

A friend shared this on Twitter. I think this speech by Lupita Nyong'o is very relevant to this topic.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPCkfARH2eE[/YOUTUBE]

Originally posted by: return_to_hades

A friend shared this on Twitter. I think this speech by Lupita Nyong'o is very relevant to this topic.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPCkfARH2eE[/YOUTUBE]

great video