The Associated Press, a news service subscribed to by news outlets all over the world, distributed a story about the first Obama Administration State Dinner. In the story, sent in by Elisabeth R., Samantha Critchell describes Michelle Obama’s dress as “flesh-colored.”
(via Sociological Images - Stunning Example of the Neutrality of Whiteness by Lisa Wade)
See, this is how deeply and invidiously whiteness is placed as the superior, the norm. Mrs. Obama’s flesh is not the same color as her dress, but flesh colored is considered the same color as pink people.
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absquesetentia reblogged this from kerishma and added:
Does not compute. How. How could someone write this.
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whatkatiedidntdonext reblogged this from vaguelybritishme and added:
I found this funny.
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vaguelybritishme reblogged this from ataritastic and added:
without looking at the comment i just saw the boxed in words and I was like OOOOOOO. DAT SHIT AWK. Whoops.
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ataritastic reblogged this from kerishma and added:
That’s not flesh-coloured even by white people standards! What the hell.
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It isn’t even ‘flesh coloured’ I don’t know anyone with that skin colouring unless their dying of yellow fever jesus....
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lol what a post. Lovely couple and lovely outfits though.
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accioharo reblogged this from coquifroggy and added:
…What the hell. Ugh, fail. Irrelevantly, that’s not even white people colored. It’s more like beige. That being said,...
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benditlikebolin reblogged this from viva-la-veda and added:
I really wish I was. And if you were to get technical, flesh-colored would be a shade of red because flesh is, y’know,...
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twigsberriesandgin reblogged this from viva-la-veda and added:
*looks down at skin. looks at dress.* and all this time I thought this was flesh on my arm. oh how I’ve been so naive..
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if that’s your natural skin colour, you should see a doctor. or Voldemort, because i think only Snape is that tone.
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what a faux pas omg
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What’s interesting is when the “nude” trend began a few years ago, I was still in school. In one class, I mentioned that...
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Jesus H. Christ. No. Just…. no. Nothing’s been “Flesh colored” since 1962, when Crayola ditched that particular crayon...
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