Oh god, these are all terrible.

The Hathaway one is pretty good, actually.

The Pharrell one is the only one that I could ever mistake for the real thing. Maybe the Anne Hathaway one from like, 50+ feet away.

The wax figures can’t hold a candle to the real thing.

This is a trick, isn’t it? They’re all wax figures!

Yeah, someone at Madame Tussaud’s HATES J Lo.

Didn’t Tussauds used to be pretty good at this thing? Nowadays it seems like they hired this lady for their recent projects:

I’m uncomfortable with positive stereotypes. If I say to a class of 3rd graders “boys are good at math,” it’s a positive stereotype for boys. What’s the take-away for a girl in that class? Or for a Hispanic boy in high school to hear “I always hire Mexicans for landscaping because they do a great job”- better not…

Positive and negative stereotypes are both sides of the same coin. The Asians are good at math stereotype is linked to the cold, calculating Asian stereotype.

It might not have been the quality we have now, but she had access to the best and so did others back then and they rocked that shit. Aaliyah (esp. good weave back in the late 90s), Monica, Foxy Brown, Eve, Brandy, Mary J. Blige, TLC, etc. The look was a lot more natural but if they wanted to glam it up they had…

I don’t really understand all the excessive hate for Buzzfeed on here lately. It’s not like they offered $10k to buy untouched Vogue photos of Lena Dunham or as if they took cheap shots at Amy Pascal’s private online purchases. Don’t worry, Jez, no one is muscling in on you.

Be kind to Lil Kim, Makeup and hair products were terrible for black women in the 90’s. All we could do was line our lips with brown eyeliner and hope for the best.

I don't think I appreciated how much of a a fox Mariah was. She had better control of her demons then.

Wait, so if Lil Kim is Nicki, and Ariana is Mariah...

Yeah, maybe drop a few Photoshop articles to make room?

I studied abroad in Nepal in the mid-90's, through an anthropology program. Before participating, we were required to take a course on Nepali culture that featured Nepali voices. (It is an amazingly diverse region). We were warned against trying to impose Western ideas and told to listen, not lecture. It was an…

Really? A.) Your tone in the original post was clearly dismissive of this issue, and vilifying the awful colonialist feminists daring to speak out against it. and B.) Yes, we can criticize traditions that are built around nothing more than "othering" women and perpetuating the view that women are dirty. Traditions…

I feel perfectly okay criticizing female genital mutilation, regardless of which culture happens to practice it.

There are health risks to this whole practice: improper sanitation, not being able to fully clean menstrual cloths in order to avoid later infections, oh, AND BEING FORCED TO CLUMP UP IN TINY SHACKS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND RUN THE RISK OF RAPE AND SNAKE BITE. But you go on, defending "traditions" that are just more…