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Your Vagina Isn’t Just Too Big, Too Floppy, and Too Hairy—It’s Also Too Brown
By Lindy West
Apr 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 mother****er. 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."
Needless to say, certain citizens are troubled by this product—which, in addition to just being ****ing 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:
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http://jezebel.com/5900928/your-vagina-isnt-just-too-big-too-floppy-and-too-hairyits-also-too-brown
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002573312Sorry. Maybe it's just the Beavis and Butthead in me but I couldn't stop laughing at this new end-of-the-world outrage from the Feminazis of DU. Personally, I don't care what color they are.
aquart
3. Trying to come to terms with "hairy" and "floppy."
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In there?
cali
4. It's pretty awful on that score, but it goes waaay beyond self-hatred
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this is society and corporate culture imposing self-hatred on women.
hlthe2b
5. This has been posted at least three times before. At least two posters were sensitive enough....
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Last edited Tue Apr 17, 2012, 08:03 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
to have re-titled the thread to avoid the disgusting misogynistic hateful connotation and to simply discuss the issue, sans the sensational hateful aspects.
This is an ugly story that deserves discussion, but it hardly needs to be reposted repeatedly under such a derogatory title. Shame.
An "ugly story". I can see that applying to DU womyn.
cali
6. I have no problem with the title and I didn't realize it had been posted before.
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and guess what? That is the title of the article. Don't like it? Your delicate sensibilities deeply offended (seeming far, far more offended by the title than what the article says)? Then go Jezebel and complain.
Ezlivin
7. There's a natural difference between the feral vagina
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and the domesticated vagina.
ehrnst
18. When they offer products that make the penis look less like a fungus growing on a tree
I'll find this crap somewhat less sexist.
OMG! Stop it!
This stuff just writes itself.
Quantess
27. Ooh, something else to feel insulted by! Who cares?!
So what if someone wants to bleach their pubes white? If someone wants to have a green mohawk down there, why would anyone have a problem with that?
Fashion police strike again! Fashion police are the most shallow people in the world.
left coaster
28. Fashion choices? Is this what you think the indignation is about?
NO, it's about using shame to sell crap to women. Worse yet, perpetuating female body shame, and sexist double standards of false beauty.
Scout
29. "Fashion police are the most shallow people in the world. "
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uh huh, right.
don't you think the shallow ones are those who won't accept the natural color of woman's vulva?
and you better read again, 'cuz they ain't talking about the pubes.
Yavin4
40. It's Stuff Like This That Makes One Look At The Planet Mars And Say...
How bad could it be to live there?
Oh, the huge manatee! Millions of sisters worldwide bleaching their pudendums over this Indian commercial! Cats and dogs living together! Can we survive?
Here's the offending ad, BTW:
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