This made me smile today (race/ethnicity)

[ArriettyJones]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51611514

Little spot of good news

I know in the end it’s a commercial decision but good for Tesco nevertheless.

(I did look and couldn’t see another thread in this. Apologies if I missed one.)

Personally I actually prefer a plaster with a character on. My favourite has always been mr bump.

Why would I, as a white person, think about the colour of plasters? I think it's awesome that the colour range has increased. It's only coming on mumsnet that I am learning about what poc have to go through. I dont get out much and there is not a large population of other ethnicities in my tiny arse end of nowhere town

How can people be this daft? Of course they are "flesh coloured". How on earth can you not have noticed? I'm white and even though plasters aren't my exact shade of white, I was still able to make the connection that they are "supposed" to be flesh coloured.

I can't believe it's taken so long for this to become a thing though. Very pleased that these are now commonly available.

Blue plasters are typically used by people who need to see a plaster if it falls off such as food handlers.

If you google nude tights for darker skin-tones you get nude tights for darker skin-tones. Because in the context of tights, nude means you look nude. Hence the range of nude tights for white people (natural tan, anyone?)

Anyway, thank you for reminding me, and the rest of the BAME people on this thread of our place.

Can't believe how ridiculous I was being.

Also please tell me where these mid size dept stores are, I always have to go online. Obviously my lived experience pales (hurhur) in comparison to your "must have" experience.

Oh you bet do you? Well your betting on that must erase decades of women of colour's experiences! If you BET.

Things are changing, but there are always racist idiots to remind you of why that change is slow.

Nude as an official colour has been subsumed by the idea of a naked skin tone. The universal naked skin tone that was always catered for? White. Stop wilfully misunderstanding.

jesus christ.
I'm off, some people are just after a fight. What the frig has happened to this place.
sayno try john lewis etc.
Personally I have to buy everything online as i live in the back of beyond but many years ago i used to go in real life stores and the racks and racks of tights in every conceivable shade used to fascinate me

communist who's been racist? or are you talking about manufacturors?

"The term nude has expanded not only in fashion, but also in society as it embraces diversity. While the outside world attempts to express its expansion, the use of nude in design continues to follow the original shade"
so in terms of design, ie. tight colour, it is a colour

😂 your own quote disagrees with you!

how?

"The term nude has expanded not only in fashion, but also in society as it embraces diversity"

Vikki - you. You are racist. You refuse to listen to women of colour when they tell you their experience, you argue when people tell you that skin-tone plasters are intended for white people, and you double down on nonsensical arguments. Racism isn't all football chants and offensive slurs, you know.

"the use of nude in design continues to follow the original shade"
note the word while ( at the beginning of the second sentence)
hope it wasn't you who said i was being thick

Oh fgs, and WHY do you think 'nude' (when everyone has nude skin under their clothes, in the truest sense) was chosen to represent a 'caucasian' shade? What do you think that might indicate?

Bye bye!

hope it wasn't you who said i was being thick

😂 we all look alike even when you can't see us!

“I wanted to play with people’s preconceptions,” she says, pointing to a scene where a nought child cuts herself and is forced to use a glaringly obvious brown plaster, because there are no pink ones available (an event which happened to Blackman, in reverse, as a child). “If you’re the majority you don’t necessarily see it because you don’t need to see it and that’s what I wanted to explore by turning the tables.”

From an article about Malorie Blackman who wrote Noughts & Crosses. Admittedly it's a children's book (or young teen probably), I still love it.

www.theguardian.com/books/2008/nov/10/malorie-blackman-double-cross-noughts-crosses

A child in my DS's class was given a plaster for his knee. He spent the rest of lunchtime colouring it with a brown pen to make it match his skin. The school I volunteer at has many coc, the first aid box has brightly coloured plasters with cartoons, they don't match anyone's skin which is great.

Well plasters are normally orange so it’ll be great if they start making a really pale one for my milk bottle legs!