Really? Remove "whitening", "lightening" and More Words From Beauty Products?

[Mike]

The world has lost its collective mind!

Industry-leading French cosmetics company L'Oreal announced they will be removing words like "whitening" and "lightening" from their products after a number of beauty brands received backlash for their skin-lightening products amidst ongoing protests for racial equality.
"The L'Oreal Group has decided to remove the words white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightening from all its skin evening products," the company said in a statement.

(en)LIGHTEN HERE

[Truckman]

I read that this morning...Overreaction everywhere......Ben

[Truckman]

So how will the black community react when they are told by the gay population that their hair "straightening" products must be renamed because it's insensitive toward the LBGTQU movement?......Ben

[wacojoe]

Drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS Health have announced that they will stop locking up beauty and hair care products aimed at black women and other women of color, joining Walmart in ending a practice at some stores that has drawn the ire of customers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-st...t-black-women/

I wonder why all these mass retailers came to the same prior conclusion that products aimed at black customers were more susceptible to theft and needed discriminatory protections? It could not possibly be as a result of experience in loss control and must be...wait for it...racism!

[Phillbo]

So how will the black community react when they are told by the gay population that their hair "straightening" products must be renamed because it's insensitive toward the LBGTQU movement?.

LGBTQU ? When did the U get added and what does it stand for?

[Truckman]

LGBTQU ? When did the U get added and what does it stand for?

Undecided......Ben

[Honda]

Michael Jackson has to be turning over in his grave.

[Truckman]

...I think the Irish should overreact because it has green colors on the box...

[mgrist]

George Carlin must be turning in his grave at this!

Amen sister!

[wacojoe]

I've got to replace my Blazing Saddles disk... It's messed up beyond repair! Thank you Ben! I'd forgotten how hilarious it is! And so true! This should be required watching in today's BS climate... Seems we were getting along better in '74 than we are now. The youth/internet/cell phone generation might wanna bone up on some common sense...

But since I'm not interested in educating the uneducatable, I present my gift to you, the fabulous film, "The Guide For the Married Man."

I think anyone reading this will love love this movie. It's from '67 (the year I was born...) It's about how to cheat on your wife, how to do it properly, with respect and class, and without getting caught. It Stars Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, and a huge laundry-list of top celebrities we all know. Politically incorrect satire at its finest! I've watched this movie a hundred times and I'm still not tired of it! Not one second of it is serious.

..."What we need in the world today..." (A quote from the movie's theme song by the Turtles...)

One of my favorite scenes in any movie is the one in the above film illustrating the rule “Deny, Deny, Deny,” which is the standard in American politics, as can be seen in abundance as Obama on down deny, deny, deny their invention and prosecution of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax —

https://youtu.be/yN2gU0XU5FU

Whatever you do and no matter how red-handed you are caught, deny it!

[Truckman]

Whatever you do and no matter how red-handed you are caught, deny it!

It wasn't me...I didn't do it...I wasn't even there...It was three other guys who look just like me......Ben

[wacojoe]

^^^
From the same era and in the same vein — with Jack Lemon/Terry-Thomas/Verna Lisi, How To Murder Your Wife and starring the “globada globada machine.”