Jesus I know I’m gonna have my own weird parental hang ups but for fucks sake like let your kid enjoy the things that they are naturally drawn to. Unless it’s like knives and dirty needles.

Not letting your daughter go to a party because you don’t like the theme seems really petty. You don’t need to prove anything, there’s no feminist jury on the sidelines judging your every decision, and I think you should let go of the pressure you’ve put on yourself because it seems counterproductive. Forcing her to…

I might be a bit unqualified to offer this advice outside the fact that I was a kid once. Anyway, why not take your daughter’s love of all things princess and turn it into a learning experience? Princesses were often very well educated women, and were expected to know multiple languages, and all other sorts of useful…

Trying to deny your kid a thing is the best way to guarantee that they want nothing but that thing.

“...but imagine the criticism she would’ve gotten if she was seen rocking a small fro...”

That’s too much blackness. Look how they wiled out over a fist bump. A fro would have ensured there was no “four more years.”

You know I ageee that her having natural hair could have effected the election. She was always painted as a latter day Angela Davis / angry black women as it was.

She is a bright light of class, intelligence, beauty and warmth. Now our so called Flotus won’t come out of her gilded tower and her official portrait resembles a Glamour Shots airbrushed icicle.

Chimamanda Adichie once went so far as to say... “if Michelle Obama had natural hair when Barack Obama was running for president, he would not have won.”

Whoever did this HAD to know what type of reaction the optics would generate. I mean, there is no way they couldn’t know. You’ve got a lily-white body using its lily-white hands to cup the face of a dark-complexioned black person, while basically declaring “White Power!” If all was innocent and they didn’t consider…

They have probably been using advertising like this in Asia and the Middle East for decades. All the companies do and have always done because it is very effective. Their mistake (from a business perspective) was to allow it to become viral in the West.

Their marketing team is probably all white, lbr.

It really doesn’t help that Nivea is a German company. And Germans, trust me on this, love using it. For everything. Basically, if you have an internal ailment, you drink chamomile tea. For anything topical, you use Nivea.

The last pic is actually from a few years ago, but look at that shit. Look at it!

Reminds me of skin whitening ads I have seen in parts of Asia, particularly those “Fair and Lovely” ads so popular in India.

Yeah, this is kind of a big deal in some countries. Like India and Korea.

Holy cow, just think how many people involved in making this looked at it and didn’t see a problem. HOW??

I love how you can make an ad with the phrase “white is purity” while there’s a white supremacist in the White House and still feel innocent enough to make a non-apology to “anyone who may take offense.”

Sadly, most cosmetic companies have some version of this pitch in international advertisements. Products sold as brighteners in the US are sold as whiteners elsewhere. Nivea just decided to go full racist with this campaign, and you can’t go full racist.