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ethiopienne:

cimness:

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…

…face, palm, I believe you have met

(but seriously what the hell that’s taupe or eggshell or something)

wOW

Maybe “champagne” would’ve been a good choice, Samantha Critchell. In the meantime, I’ll be introducing my palm to my face.


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  4. absquesetentia reblogged this from kerishma and added:
    Does not compute. How. How could someone write this.
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  6. whatkatiedidntdonext reblogged this from vaguelybritishme and added:
    I found this funny.
  7. 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.
  8. ataritastic reblogged this from kerishma and added:
    That’s not flesh-coloured even by white people standards! What the hell.
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  11. yappapaa reblogged this from yanxxx and added:
    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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  17. hada-da-demon reblogged this from accioharo and added:
    lol what a post. Lovely couple and lovely outfits though.
  18. 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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  22. 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,...
  23. 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..
  24. viva-la-veda reblogged this from ethiopienne
  25. sleeps-with-books reblogged this from bookishbutcorruptible and added:
    if that’s your natural skin colour, you should see a doctor. or Voldemort, because i think only Snape is that tone.
  26. chinchillaghosts reblogged this from jackpowerx and added:
    what a faux pas omg
  27. undeadsidekick reblogged this from ragnell and added:
    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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  29. redkiteslongnights reblogged this from cimness and added:
    Jesus H. Christ. No. Just…. no. Nothing’s been “Flesh colored” since 1962, when Crayola ditched that particular crayon...
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