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ratcreature) wrote2010-09-17 01:30 pm
ratcreature) wrote2010-09-17 01:30 pm
has anyone ever seen a non-faily before/after ad?
One involving humans, I mean, not some sparkly clean bathroom. They seem to be disproportionally racist, sexist and of course fat-phobic. Like the poster advertising some kind of beauty parlor near my father's place. It has before/after images, one worse than the next, but the one that never fails to make me go WTF? is the photo of a black woman, who somehow in the "after" picture does not just have make-up and a new hair cut with straightened hair instead of curly, but is also at least two shades lighter, thanks to Photoshop, one assumes rather than them really offering some kind of toxic skin bleaching.
Of course I'm mostly desensitized to racist advertising due to its ubiquity -- though I'd really like to know what the producers of some convenience foods are thinking when they advertise their disgusting powdered sauce product with literally yellow, slit-eyed cartoon Chinese that should have gone out of style many decades ago and not be on products in 2010, and that company afaik doesn't even have the flimsy excuse that their racist cartoon is some kind of traditional mascot for them like Sarotti chocolate -- but some things still manage to stand out.
Of course I'm mostly desensitized to racist advertising due to its ubiquity -- though I'd really like to know what the producers of some convenience foods are thinking when they advertise their disgusting powdered sauce product with literally yellow, slit-eyed cartoon Chinese that should have gone out of style many decades ago and not be on products in 2010, and that company afaik doesn't even have the flimsy excuse that their racist cartoon is some kind of traditional mascot for them like Sarotti chocolate -- but some things still manage to stand out.
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Like a few years ago I fairly suddenly lost a lot of weight (like 15 kg) in a short period of time for no clear reason (I mean, I had dental problems my dentist didn't seem to be able to fix, but I was still eating), was feeling awful and considering whether I ought to brave the doctor about this, because my mental hypochondria conjured all kinds of horrible scenarios. Yet even after I explained to people that I was in fact not dieting and concerned about my weight suddenly being unstable, I was constantly complimented about how much better I looked and asked what diet I was doing. WTF. I'm sure if I ever have some sort of terminal wasting disease I'll get congratulations to my weight loss on my death bed.
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I gained a lot of weight in a hurry because my metabolism went screwy. It was nothing I did to myself, but a virus. But people started to call me lazy, commention how I should diet/exercise have some discipline and not eat the mcdonald's etc... even though I could eat nothing but veggies and water all day (and I did htat a lot), people still treated me like I was disgusting