I hate your swarthy snatch

[Asmodeus]

WARNING: vaginas will be mentioned. All retards please proceed to the logout button

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 motherfucker. 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 fucking 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:

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? I don't think any Youngistani today thinks the British Raj/White man is superior to us Brown folk. That's all 1947 thinking!

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. I found this amazing difference when I directed Kabir Bedi, who is very fair and had to wear dark makeup for Othello, the Black hero of the play. I found I had to have a special spotlight following Kabir around the stage because otherwise the audience could not see his expressions.​

See? It makes perfect sense. We just want our vaginas to reflect more light—is that so wrong? I mean, WHAT IF MY CAR BREAKS DOWN AT NIGHT AND I DON'T HAVE A REFLECTIVE ENOUGH VAGINA? Really, the ultimate one-vagina-to-rule-them-all would glow in the dark like one of those deep-sea fishes. I need my vagina to attract more krill so my husband will fuck me again! (My husband is a whale.)

Basically the idea is to get as far away as possible from any color that vaginas actually come in. Because that's what's at the heart of this type of thinking—the perfect vagina would be something that's not a vagina at all.

 

[Aigilas]

That's infuriating. I think that if someone has a problem with the way women's vaginas look, that someone can just avoid situations where vaginas occur. Most women will probably not find it a great loss to lose such a person from the dating pool.
I also think that goes for any other body parts - whether belonging to male, female or neutral creatures - someone takes it upon oneself to have a problem with. (With the exception of one's own body, which if someone wants to modify, that's his/her/its own right. Right, not obligation. Somebody who can only be pleased by modifying myself isn't worth pleasing, I would think.)

 

[Zen]

This reminds of a family friend who was disappointed with his baby daughter's dark skin.


Horrible fathering skills aside - I can't imagine the health risks by smearing that stuff on your vagina. =/

 

[Ochalla]

Thanks for the morning rage. My coffee wasn't bitter enough.

 

[Asmodeus]

Obviously you need more milk in that coffee, Ocha. The whiter the better.


And at least we have gangsta white kids trying to fight the other corner. God bless them.

 

[Aigilas]

[...]And at least we have gangsta white kids trying to fight the other corner. God bless them.

I'm trying to understand this, but I lack information. Where do gangsta white kids enter the picture?

 

[Ochalla]

The joke being they're trying to be more black, hence the opposite of all this white/fairness racism.

 

[Aigilas]

Ah, I see now. Thank you. (So the information I lacked was cultural, I suppose.)

 

[Sakura]

Wooooowwwwww.

That was midly disturbing and weird!

By the way, I'm curious. Does snatch mean vagina? o-o

 

[October Knight]

Nothing new. Porn stars and sluts have been doing this for years.

I should know.

 

[Kooriryu]

Oh wow, look at all this

OLD NEWS.

edit: teehee

moar edits:

 

[Tegan]

Ironically, even most fair skinned girls have darker colored vaginas. But that's OK, so long as brown guys bleach their cocks, too.

And calling bullshit on the whole lighting thing Mr. McToolbag uses. Even fair skinned people need spotlights for film/photos, it's kind of a given. And then there's the whole MAKEUP ARTISTRY thing, you know, contouring and highlighting faces to make certain features stand out for film and theater.

 

[Kitti]

Porn stars bleach their bums, too! But for different reasons, I think.
Anyway, this is stupid! I disapprove and boo it wholeheartedly and am with Zen in being terrified about what this might do to sensitive lady parts. Even scented soaps can mess up the pH balance there and cause problems, so this is... not promising. Striving toward the "perfect sex toy" ideal means crazy modifications for some, which is sad and can be seen in a lot of procedures and the like that do the body no favors.

 

[Ms.Wrong]

SCREW YOUR VAJAYJAY BLEACHING?
IF ANYTHING ID BE TURNED OFF FROM THAT!
e ___ e
LIKE IM GONNA PUT THAT ON MY COOCHIE, AND COME OUT WITH A WHITE GIRLS VAG???
YEA.... THATS GONNA LOOK SEXY AGAINST MAH COCOA SKIN. :I
THIS IS WHY WHEN I GET A WHITE MAN WHO LOVES CHOCOLATE IM NOT GONNA DO SHIIIIIIIIIT TO MY COMPLEXION
Enjoy! :D

 

[Zorilla]

so long as it's not diseased it's fine the way it is!

 

[Lady Sabine]

As much as I hate to be the voice against the crowd I'm actually not all that horrified by this.
That having been said, my ability to be horrified by fashion trends is pretty numb after I realized there were people who literally wanted to become Barbie dolls. :c

Compared to drastic surgery to become prettier, a little bit of bleach doesn't seem that horrifying. Boobs, butts, waists, and especially faces have been fair game for serious, sometimes harmful modification since the dawn of civilization. I don't find the fact that we've taken our obsession with aesthetics to our ladybits at all surprising.
I'd also like to express doubt at this being a practice started or particularly encouraged by males. Generally speaking they seem pretty thrilled to just see a vagina- it's women that tear other women down most of the time. I have a tiny chest and I've never been told by any dude that I ough to have bigger tits- but if I had a dollar for every time another girl has suggested I get bigger boobs or be forever ugly, I'd have enough to pay for college by now. While I'm not saying that it's not misogynistic, I think that one of the saddest things about these products is that the pressure to use them will be coming from your own sex. Much like implants & facelifts...

 

[Asmodeus]

Amen to that. I think a HUUUGE part of modern capitalism is constructed upon female peer pressure. The competition to be the "correct" kind of mother, protector, homemaker and sexual object is enabled, if not downright perpetuated, by women themselves.

And I have it on good authority that many men prefer variety in their vaginas.

<_<

I think it's partly a distorted attempt by women to achieve empowerment. If they are the ones criticizing and amending themselves, then they are the ones in charge of the zeitgeist.

And I'll stop talking now before Koori attacks.

 

[Ms.Wrong]

KOORI ATTACK!
VAGINAS ATTACK!

 

[Kitti]

I agree with several points and I do think that there is a lot of pressure on women from women to be attractive.
However, while other procedures been around longer and are far more invasive, I think that this vagina bleaching is a special type of awful.

Mumbling and complaining

There are some compounds designed to inhibit melanin that are not actually bleaching. These are likely culprits in skin-lightening creams. One compound has produced leukemia in mice and the compound I'm referring to is banned by the European Union. Another common substance is a carcinogen. The list goes on. They're advocating putting these things on sensitive skin. For the purpose of looking whiter, which goes right into dabbling with self-esteem associated with racism, etc. in addition to the usual self-esteem and beauty involved in nose jobs and the like. Plus, it's common enough to have entire commercials. Sure, there are adverts and the like for cosmetic surgery, but there aren't any for those women who remove ribs to emulate dolls.

Tl;dr - vagina whitening vexes me.

It's not as if there's any real way to end it though. Vanity is part of the human psyche and whenever we discover something that might make us look more like some ideal, there are always plenty of people willing to shoot for it, even if it was an unintended side effect of something else. Discovering how botulinum toxin works as a neurotoxin that paralyzes muscles? Botox. Compounds that inhibit melanin? Skin whitening.

 

[Zen]

^^^

Agreed with the women on women pressure. My mother's probably the best example of that to be honest. She's gotten a tattoo on a birth mark because she felt like it was ugly. In the car she glanced at my breasts and then made a comment about how she wanted to get breast surgery to make them bigger. She has also questioned why I got the bigger breasts and not her. >_____>


But anyways...


On the bright side I'm glad there are people - not just women or men - who are advocating to love yourself. I understand that insecurities will always be there concerning our physical bodies but I can at least be happy to know that in my life time there is a vast majority of people who don't buy into the media and make a stand against it.