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)
Raise your hand if you’re a WoC and you’re surprised by this. Don’t worry, I’ll wait.
Dude, no one is that color.
Also, wouldn’t flesh-colored be red? I feel like the word flesh implies cutting into…
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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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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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…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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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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