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Bought a print I love, DH is worried it's racist

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NC4T · 31/05/2018 21:12

Saw it on IG and loved it. Purchased it for the laundry room corridor, but it's arrived and DH is a little worried it might be racist. I can't see how. To me, it's a mum finding a few minutes of calm in the chaos and I love her babies little sleeping face.

We are white Jewish, for cultural context.

What do you think?

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MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 15:45

thats not what it means, in context.

Namechangedname · 03/06/2018 15:46

SmileEachDay

Yep, both women, doing 'chores'. The first one looks like it's for an advert though as no one is that fucking happy putting washing in Grin

The one on the right, also looks far too happy to be ironing. Great pins, though!

I see them both as positive pictures.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2018 15:46

It’s what it means, in context.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 15:47

It’s more constructive to say specifically which bits you perceive as racist.Then a conversation can be had and everyone can debate and learn

Did that, repeatedly, right from the start of the thread. We had converstions about it. Perhaps don't rock up at the last minute without reading it all?

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 15:47

It’s what it means, in context

nope. Try again.

Uyulala · 03/06/2018 15:47

I’m white but not neutral or indeed a blank canvas.

In this context I thonk they meant that if someone painted a black person they have their stories "written for them" by the viewers more so than a white subject.
Not that you as an individual are a blank slate.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 15:48

If the woman in the picture was white noone would have assumed she was too poor to have other clothes. or that she had never used a washing machine.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 03/06/2018 15:49

So you can stereotype me as blank canvas, as a white person?

And that’s good?

Uyulala · 03/06/2018 15:51

No, it's not saying white people are blank canvases as people. Wow. Hmm

SmileEachDay · 03/06/2018 15:53

Namechange

Women doing chores, happily! Joyfully almost. The Stepford wife stereotype....

I think there is also a dose of “sexy” or “exotic” in the second photo, in contrast to the “clean cut housewife” in the first.

I don’t know if that’s a racial stereotype or if they’re different sides of he female stereotypes.

Notevilstepmother · 03/06/2018 15:53

If it means you can write your own story and not have people make negative assumptions about you, or treat you as some sort of fragile downtrodden impoverished other, then yes, it’s a good thing.

RoseWhiteTips · 03/06/2018 15:55

Uyulala

Really if I thought I was leaking that badly i'd just wear a small tampon

Gross.

RoseWhiteTips · 03/06/2018 15:58

I happen to be one of the few people on this thread making sense, and not being a racist sexist asshat. You should try and follow my lead instead of trying to run me off....

How arrogant - or ignorant.

QuackPorridgeBacon · 03/06/2018 15:59

Really if I thought I was leaking that badly i'd just wear a small tampon

I don’t have an issue with walking around naked etc but please don’t use a tampon for anything other than an already started period. It’s not good and can dry you out which is harmful. I’m cringing just thinking of pulling out an almost dry tampon.

Battleax · 03/06/2018 16:03

Did that, repeatedly, right from the start of the thread. We had converstions about it. Perhaps don't rock up at the last minute without reading it all?*

I have read it all migg. And I’ve been on it for several pages.

Bluntness100 · 03/06/2018 16:07

Yes I see the exact same stereotype on the laundry one and also would not display that in isolation en route to the laundry room. But as I said, the skin colour is secondary to me in the ops image, I've an issue with proclaiming laundry as "women's work". Laundry and child rearing together.

The teenager/young woman one I think looks like a typical teen/young woman. Doing rhe ironing joyfully not so much as it's not something you associate with that age range loving. As anyone with a teenage daughter will testify.

Uyulala · 03/06/2018 16:09

Gross

Well it's a good thing I wear clothes when I visit other people then, isn't it?

period. It’s not good and can dry you out which is harmful. I’m cringing just thinking of pulling out an almost dry tampon.

Thanks for the advice. I've never had a problem with a dry vagina though. Plus I hate wearing pads etc. And underwear.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 16:09

I have read it all migg. And I’ve been on it for several pages

Clearly not very well then, or you wouldn't have suggested people do as they have already done.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 16:09

I have read it all migg. And I’ve been on it for several pages

Clearly not very well then, or you wouldn't have suggested people do as they have already done.

Battleax · 03/06/2018 16:11

the woman in the picture was white noone would have assumed she was too poor to have other clothes. or that she had never used a washing machine.

Why do you say that?

That’s exactly what I take from a naked person trying to read propped against a washing machine that’s in motion.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 16:11

I've an issue with proclaiming laundry as "women's work". Laundry and child rearing together

Its not proclaiming anything of the sort, you are. Do women do laundry, all over the world? Yes they do. Do women look after babies, all over the world? Yes they do.
So what you want to do is not show any of these women doing what they do. You want to erase them, keep them hidden, tell them they are not worthy of being depicted in Art.
Well fuck that shit.

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 16:12

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Bluntness100 · 03/06/2018 16:12

I've never had a problem with a dry vagina though

Really. There is such a thing as too much information.

Ffs.

Battleax · 03/06/2018 16:12

Clearly not very well then, or you wouldn't have suggested people do as they have already done.

Okay, I’ll try it the other way.

Won’t dont you stop suggesting that almost everyone on the thread bar you is racist?

MiggeldyHiggins · 03/06/2018 16:14

Won’t dont you stop suggesting that almost everyone on the thread bar you is racist?

I think I'll carry on calling the racist posters racist, actually. Why would you have a problem with that?
I've never seen such blatant racism in 12 years on MN.

(BTW, to the several people who PM'd me, I can't reply to you, I don't know why, there is an error message. But yes, I know, and yes, it is unreal!)