In all of my life or any other ‘White’ females that I have known, no one has EVER had to show or parade around their Vagina to get a job.Aside from some exotic dancers, nude models or a prostitute is really the only jobs where I think you would have to worry about that. Personaly I wouldn’t want a job if someone asked to see my stuff as a job qualification.
The ad depicts an unsatisfied young wife concerned that her husband is more interested in his daily paper than in her, presumably — as the ad would have you believe — because her vagina is too dark. But after a quick wash with the pH-balanced skin-lightening cleanser, the couple is frolicking on the furniture with renewed lust.
It’s interesting that according to the ads we see on TV, whitening is a problem that is increasingly faced by women who are modern and independent.
Nowadays, the person who needs fair skin is the woman who wants a job, the athlete who wins a tournament, the consummate professional that stands on her own two feet. The woman in a sari, on the other hand, appears in the advertisement for a moisturiser that promises softer skin. It’s almost as though we’re so uncomfortable with the idea of a liberated, independent woman that we feel the need to slip a few insecurities into her psyche.
So it shouldn’t be surprising that the vagina-whitening phenomenon is alive and well in the U.S. too. “The desire to lighten these areas is not limited to Indian women. There’s quite a bit of demand for products like this in the U.S.,” says Dr. Jessica Wu, a Los Angeles dermatologist and assistant clinical professor of dermatology at USC School of Medicine. “Many of my female patients ask me about lightening their private parts.”
Wall Street Journal writer Rupa Subramanya reasoned that the intimate skin-lightening phenomenon in the U.S is simply a corollary of the larger fairer-is-better ethos. Indeed, data show that darker-skinned people do worse in the job market:
To round out this picture, Joni Hersch, a professor at Vanderbilt Law School, documents that the fairest skinned immigrants earn an average of 16-23% more than comparable immigrants with the darkest skin tone. This is over and above any difference due to education, ethnicity, race, or anything else which influences labor market outcomes. Her conclusion is that there’s “persistent skin color discrimination” affecting immigrants in the U.S. labor market.
The Clean and Dry ad director, Alyque Padamsee, thinks the media response is overreaction. He wrote: “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? … 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.”
Beyond exacerbating women’s potential body image insecurities, skin-lightening products can be harmful to health if used in excess in the delicate genital area.Read more:
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