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Shouldn't It Be The Women Who Use This Kind Of Product Be The One's To Face Criticism, Rather Than The Company That Makes It?

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anotheoldgit | 11:49 Thu 27th Nov 2014 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2850927/As-Holland-Barrett-come-fire-selling-controversial-skin-lightening-cream-women-wholl-whiter-skin.html

/// The sale of the product provoked outrage, with some accusing the chain of encouraging racist ideals. ///

/// ‘A skin-lightening regime has been part of my life practically since birth,’ she claims. ‘There are many different types of African skin — from dark charcoal to a lighter version — and you grow up knowing that the lighter ladies are the prettier ones. It’s just a fact.’ ///

/// Her younger sister, Elsa, 27, agrees, explaining how disturbing hierarchies of skin colour are still influencing African girls. ‘Being lighter shows you belong to a different place on the social ladder. All the rich, successful black African men marry either a white or a very light-skinned girl because they too grew up thinking that the lighter is the most pretty. It doesn’t matter how dark a man is, of course — the pressure is all on women.’ ///

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African people look uglier with lightened skin I think -especially when they couple it with blond hair.
It's a bit disturbing. I have no real knowledge of African culture, but I think facial attractiveness is mostly to do with features and how they are spaced. Re the Golden Ratio. If a woman already has this quality but wants to bleach her face, it's a sad thing. I don't think the comany who makes the product is to blaim. It's the society they live in.
Neither should face criticism.
Its like blaming Greggs for obese people and trying to ban pasties. If the product is there and people feel the need to use it and its legal well that's ok.
No it should be the black men who see a white(er) woman as beautiful if you must find someone to blame.

All seems very odd to me, our kids spend all day under cancer inducing sun beds and African kids spend all day trying to get white.

And the liberals spend all day finding offence on behalf all others !

What a topsy turvey world we live in.

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