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Creole GAL
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 Posted: Sat 12 Sep 2009 18:20 Post subject: India-skin bleaching is in |
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I saw this report on CNN this week.
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/india.skin/index.html
It is not like someone getting a tan.Tans are temporary.
Tans happen , just happen, in the summer to anybody enjoying summertime.
Skin bleaching is different. |
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Shinynewthings
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| Posted: Sun 13 Sep 2009 02:32 Post subject: |
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| That's interesting. I never knew that skin bleaching was marketed toward men. I wonder how pervasive skin bleaching is amongst men around the world? |
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anonymouse
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fwsweet
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| Posted: Sun 13 Sep 2009 04:04 Post subject: |
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| anonymouse wrote: | | beat you to it |
Beat you both. <grin>
Sexual Selection and the Color Line the last section, "Do Current Fashions Prefer Paler Skin?".
| Quote: | | Nevertheless, the world-wide skin-lightening market is orders of magnitude larger than that for skin darkeners. According to Amina Mire, “Pigmentation and Empire: The Emerging Skin-Whitening Industry”, Counterpunch July 28, 2005, in Japan and China alone (the only nations for which data are published) skin-lightening cosmetics amount to a $7 billion per year industry. Europe, Africa, and the Americas together probably sum to ten times that figure. Google “skin lighteners” and you get 105,000 hits. Hydroquinone medications (the kind that Michael Jackson used) are widely sold throughout Africa as cosmetics to women who want to become paler. Women in both Nigeria and Mexico have been hospitalized for poisoning because they applied skin lighteners that contained mercury. Dangerous or not, misused or not, skin lighteners are a multi-billion dollar worldwide industry fueled by the desire to look paler in order to attract a mate. |
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anonymouse
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fwsweet
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| anonymouse wrote: | |
Actually, I wrote about women's use of skin lighteners. I too was surprised at the ads targeting men. Who would have thought?
In high school during my period of insecurity, which I guess all kids go through, I became sensitive about taunts that I was so pale-skinned. (I was the lightest kid in my class.) So I tried a cosmetic named "Man-Tan," which promised to make me look darker. It turned me bright yellow! Even the palms of my hands were yellow! That was my last experiment with skin-tone cosmetics for men. |
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