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New "Beauty Product" Marketed In India Allows Women To Bleach Their Vag... WTF?

9:48 pm - 04/16/2012

Your Vagina Isn’t Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too
Hairy—It’s Also Too Brown

By Lindy WestApr 11, 2012 12:40 PM


Good news, ladies! Society has discovered another new thing that's wrong with you, which means another opportunity for you to make yourself more attractive for your man. Score! Turns out, the color of your vagina is gross and everyone hates it. So bleach that motherfucker. Bleach it right now!

In this commercial for an Indian product called Clean and Dry Intimate Wash, a (very light-skinned) couple sits down for what would have been a peaceful cup of morning coffee—if the woman's disgusting brown vagina hadn't ruined everything! The dude can't even bring himself look at her. He can't look at his coffee either, because it only reminds him of his wife's dripping, coffee-brown hole! Fortunately, the quick-thinking woman takes a shower, scrubbing her swarthy snatch with Clean and Dry Intimate Wash ("Freshness + Fairness"). And poof! Her vadge comes out blinding white like a downy baby lamb (and NOT THE GROSS BLACK KIND) and her husband—whose penis, I can only assume, is literally a light saber—is all, "Hey, lady! Cancel them divorce papers and LET'S BONE."

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Needless to say, certain citizens are troubled by this product—which, in addition to just being fucking insane, brings up painful issues about the hierarchy of skin tone within the Indian community. As if it isn't bad enough that darker-skinned people are encouraged to stay out of the sun and invest in skin-bleaching products like Fair & Lovely, and that white actresses are being imported to play Indian people in Bollywood movies, now everyone has to be insecure about the fact that their vaginas happen to be the color that vaginas are??? Splendid! God, I was just saying the other day that my misogyny didn't have enough racism in it. So what are the pro-vadge-bleaching people thinking? Here's a hilarious explanation from a male ad exec:

It is hard to deny that fairness creams often get social commentators and activists all worked up. What they should do is take a deep breath and think again. Lipstick is used to make your lips redder, fairness cream is used to make you fairer-so what's the problem? I don't think any Youngistani today thinks the British Raj/White man is superior to us Brown folk. That's all 1947 thinking!

The only reason I can offer for why people like fairness, is this: if you have two beautiful girls, one of them fair and the other dark, you see the fair girl's features more clearly. This is because her complexion reflects more light. I found this amazing difference when I directed Kabir Bedi, who is very fair and had to wear dark makeup for Othello, the Black hero of the play. I found I had to have a special spotlight following Kabir around the stage because otherwise the audience could not see his expressions.


See? It makes perfect sense. We just want our vaginas to reflect more light—is that so wrong? I mean, WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA? Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (My husband is a whale.)

Basically the idea is to get as far away as possible from any color that vaginas actually come in. Because that's what's at the heart of this type of thinking—the perfect vagina would be something that's not a vagina at all.
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Article is satirical, but the subject matter it is commenting on is very real. This is not a "The Onion" style made-up piece.
shukivengeance 17th-Apr-2012 03:19 am (UTC)
Oh i see, you're trolling. Lol ok then.
nekokonneko 17th-Apr-2012 03:21 am (UTC)
No, I'm being completely serious. White people are not persecuted for being white. You are delusional (and racist) if you think otherwise.
shukivengeance 17th-Apr-2012 03:40 am (UTC)
lol oh my god. I made one obviously facetious comment and you decide to get all up my ass with your straw-manning which is your prerogative I guess, but don't you think it would be better to engage someone with a 'problematic opinion' with reasonable and educative discourse instead of the tired and predictable tumblr reaction gif du jour?
nekokonneko 17th-Apr-2012 03:45 am (UTC)
1. Tone argument

2. Did that one tame ass gif offend you so much?
shukivengeance 17th-Apr-2012 04:28 am (UTC)
Yes and I am emotionally wounded forever.

Edited at 2012-04-17 04:28 am (UTC)
lickety_split 17th-Apr-2012 07:00 am (UTC)
Stop. Your original comment was ridiculous, condescending and completely inappropriate for this post. Please reflect.
shukivengeance 17th-Apr-2012 04:16 pm (UTC)
Stop what? The comment thread had died before you even posted.
lickety_split 17th-Apr-2012 04:22 pm (UTC)
And you are focusing on the wrong thing. What you said was very inappropriate and not condoned in this comm. Whether you've stopped replying is irrelevant, you need to know this so you won't leave insensitive comments like that in the future.
shukivengeance 17th-Apr-2012 04:44 pm (UTC)
You said "stop" when the discussion was already over, how is that not relevant?

I just checked the comm rules and there's nothing against jokes listed, the closest thing is the mention of "unpopular opinions" not being a bannable offense so apparently this is an issue of unspoken etiquette.

So how about, like I stated in the comment which you ironically responded to with no explanation and just started attacking me, educate me instead of jumping straight to the berating. I'd appreciate it because I joined here just a few days ago and clearly haven't gotten a good feel for the atmosphere yet.
lickety_split 17th-Apr-2012 04:49 pm (UTC)
Please Google "white privilege" and "colorism" and maybe you'll get a clearer picture as to why your joke was tasteless in this particular circumstance (not ALL circumstances). Cornel West and Tim Wise also have great essays and lectures you can look into if you're interested. I'd recommend West's book Race Matters if you can find a copy somewhere. It's a short but very informative read.
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