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.)

@1066vegan great minds!

Colourless and transparent plasters have been around for decades. Yes, they have a white square of gauze but that's so you can see strike through/when they need changing. From a medical point of view I'd like a dressing to be obvious so I know there's a wound there. I wonder if medical
Suppliers to hospitals/medical centres will start making different colour dressings? I imagine not.

Can people please STOP saying that skin coloured plasters don't match their 'milk bottle' legs. If you can't see why that isn't the fucking point then I truly despair.

@Bercows dressings are usually white so you can see when they need changing aren't they? So different shades of medical dressing would be pointless. I don't think anyone has bright white skin.

@Bercows hospitals tend to dress serious wounds with pure white gauze / dressings, which are nothing to do with skin colour and more to do with visibility. That is not the same as little Mo cutting his knee in the playground and getting a plaster for his skin tone rather than one made only with his white peers in mind.

Anything that increases inclusion and stops the assumption that "white is the norm" in its tracks is great.

Well this turned depressing quickly, didn’t it.

As @CommunistLegoBloc said Incredible that people would actually find a reason to pick apart this important and significant step

If you don’t get it, that’s ok. Just don’t wade in and start doing some weird white person version of mansplaining. Shut up and learn.

I am mortified that I never considered it. Obvious in retrospect. I hate finding examples of white privilege because I like to think I'm more aware than I am. The nude conversation is also mortifying. I had thought that about tights, and I think make up appears to have come on leaps and bounds although I assume it's not there yet?

Has anyone here lived in a country where the majority of people have brown or black skin? Some of these countries mainly sell pale coloured plasters which makes me feel really sad too.
I'm really shocked at some of the awful comments on this thread, I thought in 2020 people would have been more kind and understanding even if they hadnt experienced something themselves.

The point is that when you want a plaster to be unobtrusive, the blister on your ankle when wearing posh dress at a summer wedding, for example, it is the degree of contrast that counts. And the difference between v pale white skin and a (formerly) standard ‘flesh’ or ‘nude’ plaster is much less than between that plaster and, say, Naomi Campbell’s skin.

Now, although these plasters won’t fit many people’s tone exactly, the contrast or difference will be much less.

And really. Not enough eye rolls for anyone who thinks that the colour dubbed ‘nude’ does not beg the question ‘whose’nude’?’.

When the craze for those peachy beige heeled shoes came in I refused to call them ‘nude’.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/01/pointe-shoes-black-ballet-ballerinas-dancers

It took until just now for ballet pointe shoes — which are supposed to match your skin tone so that it looks as if you’re dancing barefoot — to start being made in a range of skin tones. Incredibly, black ballerinas were ‘pancaking’ their shoes with makeup to make them look less obtrusive before going on stage.

African American ballerinas were having to hand-dye all their tights so they didn’t have dark arms and strangely pink legs under a tutu.

Ah so I’m the only one who whatever the plaster colour is, it looks manky and grey within minutes of wearing it, or it rolls up and makes a break for anywhere put on the cut I want it to actually cover...... hmmmm

Nude is a colour. yes, from a middling tone of caucasion skin.
How is that different to eg. cornflower blue?

I remember hearing this argument in the early 1990s from a woman who insisted that N-word brown was an actual colour of wool/carpet. It wasn't a legitimate, actual colour 30 years ago and it isn't one now. Just like nude isn't an actual colour.

Well this turned depressing quickly, didn’t it.

It sure did

*I remember hearing this argument in the early 1990s from a woman who insisted that N-word brown was an actual colour of wool/carpet. It wasn't a legitimate, actual colour 30 years ago and it isn't one now. Just like nude isn't an actual colour.hmm.

Unbelievable. There is no way anyone cannot see the issue when they say things like that. It’s completely deliberate.

I heard a woman use the term ‘n*** brown’ in the John Lewis haberdashery department in Leicester within the last year or so.

What reaction did she get @boudoirpink ?

In my memory, the entire place ground to a halt and you could have heard a pin drop, but tbh, that could just have been me.

Personally I couldn't give a fig what colour my plasters either whether spotted or sky blue pink but that's my choice. Everybody should have that choice and now finally they can

In my memory, the entire place ground to a halt and you could have heard a pin drop, but tbh, that could just have been me.

You’d hope so. That and security coming to escort her out.

And a ban from the store too hopefully

This is amazing. I can't wait to get some.

Unfortunately, as is ever the case on Mumsnet, white privilege is rife.
I just can't understand how some people cannot fathom that racism exists.
If I go to my corner shop, what colour tights will they have? Not mine, that's for sure. The same way they wouldn't sell a piano. Convenience store, they call it. Not convenient for me

It’s astounding reading this thread. How are people still so ignorant in 2020?!

@TeddyIsaHe As a brown person it doesn’t shock me at all, casual (and blatant) racism are an almost daily occurrence.

People’s minds are blown that band aids are meant to be skin tone?

I couldn’t believe anyone was that oblivious so googled some popular brands. Literally says ‘skin tone’, ‘flesh tone’ or ‘nude’ on dozens and dozens of packets.

These people are either desperately stupid or liars.