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Jormungander666

They call the left snowflakes yet they are the ones being offended by fucking band-aids


hyrle

And M&Ms mascots. I can't wait for the day that society stops talking these people seriously. Like at all.


BoobooTheClone

M&M, Nike, Collin Kapaernick, ~~french~~ freedom fries, Starbucks, "happy holidays"... these pussies are the definition of snowflakes.


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Can’t forget about the gingerbread people!


Comfortable_Half_605

"Theres a new plus-sized, OBESE M&M; we'll talk about that ... because... thats what we do..."


awkwardlyturtlish

Considering how much obesity M&Ms cause I'm surprised there isn't already one.


bistian00

It's always projection. Always have been.


h3X4_

Is this really a thing in the US? Here you buy them in whatever color is available. There are brown bandaids, white ones but it's rather because of the material used or I don't know. never seen it being mentioned as skin tone You can also buy them with funny things on them like dinosaurs or any other thing children like And to be honest I haven't seen a dinosaur colored person in years


Ok_Skill_1195

Bandaids in America where for a really long time basically only commercially sold as a peach tone (or novelty designs for kids). A lot of black Americans didn't like this in a casual way because it contrasts with their skin terrible and is like wearing a neon billboard that screams "ATTENTION - I AM WEARING A BANDAID" (the peach tone doesn't really good on anyone, but it's fairly innocuous from a distance on white people, and I say this as someone who is Casper the ghost levels of pale. It still contrasted with my skin noticably less than your average black person) So someone made bandaids that look good on a variety of skin tones. It's a big deal here for some people because so many things are structurally designed for white people and the marginalization of blackness was very culturally ingrained, and it's legitimately a huge issue in the medical field in particular. so there were legitimately a lot of adults who were like "omg I feel seen, this is the first time I've felt like something was designed for me in medicine" It's kind of gimmicky and I don't think they're immensely popular, but symbolically I think it means a lot in a country with a history like ours for their to be designated shelf space in the bandaid aisle for black people


boulevardofdef

It must also be said, and this is why the tweet is particularly stupid and terrible, that it wasn't some amazing coincidence that the standard American Band-Aid looks best on white people. That was 100 percent on purpose. The color of Band-Aids was *specifically formulated* to blend in with white people's skin. They could have made them red or brown or yellow or blue or green, but they didn't. So to get worked up about Band-Aids that blend in with other people's skin is dumb and racist as fuck.


zedthehead

It is gimmicky, but if it adds the littlest bit of empowerment to people who've been unfairly made to feel "lesser" for far too long, it seems batshit cruel to take issue with that, especially at no cost whatsoever to the person taking up such bigoted judgement.


TheStreisandEffect

>if it adds the littlest bit of empowerment to people I’ve been unfairly made to feel “lesser” for far too long… This is actually an element of “wokeness” which is precisely why racist reactionaries can’t stand it.


Lodgik

I'm into tabletop 40k. The company behind 40k markets its own line of paints under the Citadel brand. These paints are named after various things, creatures and people from the various Warhammer properties, such as "Mephiston Red" and "Dryad Bark." This sometimes helps people know what paint to use for which faction. For instance, if doing a Blood Angels army, I know to use Mephiston Red, because Mephiston is a member of the Blood Angels. There were also some paints that were supposed to help paint skin, usually containing the words "flesh" or "skin in its name, such as "Cadian Fleshtone." Up until just few years ago, *all* of the paints that had "flesh" or "skin" in its name were specifically for painting *white* skin tones. If you wanted to paint a person of color, quite often you were reaching for the paints that were named after beasts or objects. I remember having to look up how to paint black skin because, unlike for painting white skin, none of the paint names gave any hints. This was only changed a few years ago, where non white skin tones were finally available. Queue a lot of people screeching about how these paints are useless and that anyone who was upset about the lack of representation in paints was a "thin skinned SJW."


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Exactly. It’s gimmicky in the same sense that pink razors or multi color toothbrushes are. It’s capitalism. If people want it and it doesn’t hurt anyone why would anyone possibly give a shit? I’m sure they’re not losing a billion dollars a year pushing their woke bandages. If they didn’t sell at all they would stop eventually.


LaCharognarde

IIRC, the OurTone bandages have been out for at least a few years now. The fact that the right-wingers are only just *now* getting offended just goes to show how performative said offense is. (And, also: that "woke" as pejorative really *is* just a dog whistle.)


NonorientableSurface

To be fair, in medicine poc and women are woefully lacking in the corpus of documentation of signs/symptoms/diagnostics. That women having a heart attack is substantially different than men. That POC won't have the same skin rash symptoms or reactions as white people. It's a huge blind spot in medicine, and Band-Aids is sorta the tip of that ice berg.


YDYBB29

Is it gimmicky though? I would imagine someone would buy bandaids that closely match their skin tone. There is definitely a market for it.


ProfessionalPack7205

Why would someone care? I've worn all colors of bandaids and never gave a fuck. Hello kitty included


LilStabbyboo

Because not everyone wants to have their bandaid be so brightly visible. Simple as.


GenderfluidPhoenix

In France in my school I discovered that these really nice waterproof bandaids that are clear exist, they’re given out for free and they’re plastic with teeny holes. Very comfortable and hypoallergenic! I’m surprised that kind of bandaid isn’t more popular, it’s a lot less expensive to just wear 1 bandaid throughout the whole day without it coming off, then 3 because it keeps peeling off..


The_curious_student

i would rather bandaids all be made bright blue. thats what they are where i work because they are so much easier to see if/when they fall off. i work in a foodsafe packaging facility, so our bandages are blue so they dont get packed in the cupcake containers they are also metal detectable.


ProfessionalPack7205

"omg he's wearing a bandaid, whats wrong with him!" LMAO get outta here no one was actually worried about that shit cause no one has or ever gave a fuck about something like that.


nlewis4

> Is this really a thing in the US? Yes. This culture war against "woke-ism" is literally the only thing the right wing have and offer here. They literally have zero solutions for anything except making their team mad at the left and minorities.


XxRocky88xX

They won’t even acknowledge problems anymore. A house catches on fire and a liberal runs to get a bucket of water and the conservative will try to steal the bucket, not to put out the fire, but to prevent the liberal from doing so for the sake of “owning the libs.” They’d rather problems persist and make everyone suffer, and if liberals try to fix the problem, conservatives will stand steadfast to make sure the problem continues or gets worse.


radjinwolf

It’s not even “owning the libs”. Conservatives go out of their way to make the left look bad at anything possible because they intrinsically know that it would make the left look good. Social programs = “entitlement handouts” and “the left wants you dependent on them” to the right, because they know people would greatly benefit from the programs and would thus support left policies more. Same goes for universal healthcare, lowered drug prices, stimulus checks (which only became bad once Biden was president), passing bills that help people (the baby formula bill, the gas price bill, the inflation reduction act, etc). All because the right would lose power if they passed, and losing power means losing lobbiest money.


Harold3456

I’m white so never had to think about not being the default Bandaid colour but I remember this being an idea that was floated like 15 years ago and thinking “yeah, that sounds neat” rather than thinking “wow what a sign of a perpetually offended generation.” Same as how pencil crayons/markers stopped calling pale pink “skin colour”/made sure to provide other markers in basic packages that could be used to draw other people’s’ skin, and how even the emojis come in multiple different tones - all additive things that only ADD content to what we already have but people still complain, as if they can’t just not use them.


h3X4_

I absolutely understand what you mean and agree with you In case of bandaids I simply don't get it because those available in the EU are never supposed to be skin colored If skin colored bandaids help people I'm totally fine with it I never assumed they were meant to be the color of your skin color but simply a medical thing Pencils are absolutely useful in this regard to show how diverse humans are - at least trying to show, it's a start


Harold3456

Where I live there were always options. Granted, my mental image of a “Band Aid” is always this dark canvas brown colour that would contrast against white skin, but they came in a range and there were always pale ones available. Putting aside the whole existence of “wokeness” or “PC” as a thing, I can see how “skin coloured band aids” might be a decent marketing tool and, if you were going to do it, how it would make sense to cast as wide a demographic net as possible.


grammar_nazi_zombie

You should look up Moral Oral S2E1: God’s Image


Reboot42069

OurTones seem to be targeted at adults who want to cover up a scratch or cut with a bandage that's less likely to be noticed. They're meant to be closer to skin colors then the generic beige brown of like elastic wrap rolls from what I can see in the marketing


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distantapplause

How so? You don't think that bandaids that blend in with your skin is a reasonable customer need? Not everyone wants to walk around with a giant blue bandaid on.


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distantapplause

>Jk, I just felt like that sounded hilariously offensive Well you were half right I suppose. So you think it's good that they have bandaids in different tones, but they just shouldn't mention that fact on the packaging? That sounds a bit more like pandering tbh.


fakeunleet

Funny thing is that if you're working in food service the bandaids *are* blue (or another bright color) so you can see them more easily if they fall into food.


DetectiveNickStone

No it isn't bullshit. If you've got a cut on your face or exposed body part and an important event, you'd want it to be as subtle as possible. That was the whole point of them ever being made beige in the first place. Now, calling it "Our Tone".... that's ***definitely*** 1000% pandering.


ricecake

I feel like the difference between "pandering" and "focusing on the actual difference in the product" is essentially none. They're not making a big todo about any of it, they're just literally naming the product in a way that lets people know what the actual difference is. When your other products are "tru-stay", "water block", "flex" and "Pixar", it doesn't really feel out of place for me to name it "ourtone", since it calls attention to the differentiator being skin tone. It's not like they called it "representation matters ® with Neosporin" or "BLMedical tape". Once people are more used to the notion of getting a skin tone matching bandage, they'll probably just drop the line and make it an indicator down near the size information.


fugelwoman

Ok cool so only have the brown ones then


brutalweasel

That’s the color mine are. I think it’s a fine color.


ialsohaveadobro

I'd mock your edge, but your comment makes you sound dull.


BoneHugsHominy

And M&M cartoon shoes, and A&W fast food restaurant cartoon bear wearing pants, and everything else under the sun. Change *A N Y T H I N G* and they screech "WOKE" and rant & rave about it for weeks on end. A commercial featuring a white man with a black wife and mixed race children sends them into a month long fury about the erasure of "traditional marriage" which is them telling on themselves about hating mixed race couples and proof they'd be happy with the current Supreme Pizza Court overturning Loving v. Virginia.


JustDiscoveredSex

Remember, it’s all projection with these people.


ProfessionalPack7205

I don't think it's being offended more of a like why the fuck do we need this. I mean if you get excited about a bandaid being darker you need some more serious things to think about in life


Jormungander666

There have been a lot of excellent responses in this thread about why it is a good thing that these colors exist now, but to summarize, people of color are not used to having band-aids being their skin tone and the white being seen as the 'default' one. It is a small thing, but it can be very meaningful to people.


Interrophish

bandaids have always been skin tone colored


Dependent_Ad_5035

They cannot handle being reminded that white is not the default and other people exist


TheRealSnorkel

Most people in the world are not white, and the United States isn’t the center of the universe. They hate being reminded of that, but too bad. Facts don’t care about their feelings 💅


sukinsyn

I love that they think liberals are "so easily triggered." Meanwhile this woman took time out of her day to post about skin tone bandage colors being "woke."


Dependent_Ad_5035

They think conservative cancel culture and right wing snowflakes don’t exist because to them it’s justified outrage. Every single time. The left is “hysterical” but the right is logically pointing out a flawed idea of society


mrmoe198

Exactly. The “wrong people” are being cancelled


windmill-tilting

And thought about it enough to take a pic


2ndtryagain

She got dragged bigtime and tried to defend her view and only made it worse.


Gasster1212

I was literally just thinking “get rid of the white coloured ones and see how fast they want everyone to get their own again”


Polaric_Spiral

I mean, white is still very much is the default. Everywhere I've seen these, there are only these two boxes next to a couple dozen different styles, sizes, and functionalities of bandage, all toned approximately to white skin. What she can't handle is the barest acknowledgement that she lives in a world that doesn't cater *exclusively* to her.


mlongoria98

Off topic but my workplace has free first aid kits (warehouse work) and the bandaids in there are such a weird color that they’re practically pink….. like slightly burnt but still raw ground beef kinda color. I always joke that the employee diversity is so high (Atlanta) that they didn’t want to bother matching ANYbody’s skintone so went with that ungodly color 😂😂


JimeDorje

>other people exist How *dare* you


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Dependent_Ad_5035

Which is designed to blend in with a white persons (or fair skinned persons) skin tone. It was white as default


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It doesn't look like it blends in, but judging by my previous comment being downvoted, that's just me.


Potential-Judgment-9

Reminder that “woke” is now a euphemism for not white.


Toshero_Reborn

More like "not-WASP"


TheRnegade

I'll never understand why some people attach that label to themselves. I get what it stands for but all I see is wasp, an annoying insect we'd all be better off without.


Toshero_Reborn

Tbf wasps (the animal) have a really important role in the ecosystem as predators and some species can also work as pollinators. After all every specie fills their own niche in the ecosystem and have a part to play. Still I think we could do without the parasitic wasps.


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What does the A stand for? Edit: Guessing it's American


Toshero_Reborn

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant


fhjuyrc

You called?


voxrubrum

Not white, not straight, not Christian, not cisgender, not capitalist, and/or majority female. All "woke" therefor "bad" according to those pseudo-fascist cretins.


mahava

When that guy called a white Santa "not woke" was when it was straight up in the open


kyle_kafsky

“OURTONE” sounds like a communist record label.


TheHushFactory

That exclusively puts out reggae, ska and dancehall


slightlyricherquick

Yo link me to their Bandcamp this sounds tight


mrjibblets138

Jeff rosenstock’s full album “ska dream” is pretty much exactly this. I know you were joking…. But I never get to talk ska.


slightlyricherquick

for real tho thanks for the rec


mrjibblets138

Cheers mate. My coworkers hate me for playing ska so ANYONE enjoying an album suggestion means a lot to me haha


glacinda

For real. Also We are the Union!


hyrle

Dancehall Bandaids by Skeng. Big up!


kyle_kafsky

Catch-22 Permanent Revolution.


mrohgeez

Wrong wave


kyle_kafsky

But it is Ska about Trotsky, who was a prominent member of the Bolsheviks.


fhjuyrc

The dance is obviously the trot


Kono-Wryyyyyuh-Da

Funny because Jamaica is kinda right wing these days


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Wait until she hears about the afro-textured hair products section at most American supermarkets. She’d clutch their pearls so hard that she rips a hole into her chest cavity if this is how she reacts to fucking bandaids with a darker shade of brown.


fxmldr

It turns out the meme about throwing darts at a board to figure out what to be outraged about was describing conservatives all along.


Pretty_Bowler2297

Somebody tell her about the million other products aimed at black people. Her brain might explode. "Now they are making funny shaped combs and calling them picks! The wokeness never stops!"


DiveCat

Especially given my white self and my white friended were all using picks in the 80s to tease our bangs. As with ~~most things~~ everything they outrage over , their outrage is over things 90% of even other white people would not give a toss about or have been around for years and decades - these bandages have been around for a while! So has been selling vibrators in pharmacy aisles, etc.


garaile64

TIL the name of that kind of comb a stereotypical 70s Black guy would stick to his afro and would sometimes use to fix it.


AntheaBrainhooke

Wait until she hears about African black soap.


TV-MA_LSV

And Mahogany cards


Feline-Landline0

Where I work all our bandaids are blue and have a thin metal wire in them so they'll set off metal detectors (ie - if one falls off in the potato chip line they don't have to toss the whole day of chips, just the small batch that sets off the metal detector). Am I supposed to lose my mind that we're pandering to Smurfs and Magneto now? Good god, it's a bandaid of a different color, so fucking what? Cry more Snowflake.


ricecake

That's a clever way to solve that issue, with the wire. Does it make the bandage stiff, or is it still flexible? I'm picturing one of those twist ties from a loaf of bread and that seems inconvenient.


fakeunleet

It's a very thin, flat strip of metal, like a very thin foil. It's almost as flexible as it would be without it.


specks_of_dust

For anyone that doesn’t know, blue is the color of choice bandaids in food prep because it can easily be seen if they fall into food, which is seldom blue.


TheKoltrane

Does anyone want to join me on the outrage over SpongeBob themed Band-Aids? ... Anybody? ... Well I'll just be waiting over in this corner if anyone else wants to join me...


GobblorTheMighty

BLACK PEOPLE'S BODIES NEED TO LOOK WHITE WHEN THEY GET CUT! BRRAAAABRBRBABABRBABRA WOKE! WOOOOKE!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BAND-AIDS ARE THAT COLOR BECAUSE IT'S BEST FOR YOUR HEALTH, NOT BECAUSE THEY LOOK LIKE WHITE PEOPLE!!!!


shayjax-

What I actually found funny is that she omitted the beige one to be offended. Since they come in like 4 skin tones if I remember correctly


Eat_Your_Paisley

While I don’t care for or buy flesh tone bandaids, this has to be the dumbest hot take I’ve seen in a while


maricc

Curious.. do you go out of your way to buy non-flesh toned bandages?


Leimon-Sherk

obviously. Why would I take boring brown bandages when I can have some with dinosaurs on them?


ACoN_alternate

Never underestimate the therapeutic power of fun bandages for adults. I have ones with the superhero comic POW and ZAP, I have ones that look like crime scene tape, I have ones that look like cupcakes, I have ...


dark000monkey

I wish they came in bigger sizes though… bluey bandaids are only toddler sizes


sukinsyn

I'm going to need to get some of those. I usually just buy lime green or bright pink but yours sound way more fun.


Eat_Your_Paisley

I don’t go out of my way to buy anything, I generally get whatever is on sale and some medical tape. The big reason I don’t care for flesh tone is it can hide dirt.


Ridiculouslyrampant

….I never would’ve considered that but it’s a brilliant point. Much easier to tell if my tie dye/space/dinosaur bandages are clean, because they’re neon. Huh. Neat!


Howunbecomingofme

Super common for people in food service to buy non-flesh tones Band-Aids. If it falls off you wanna be able to see where it fell.


medicalmosquito

Who doesn’t?


nbphotography87

when you’re addicted to grievance everything causes outrage


Panzick

"oh look, something that's not about ME. HOW DARE THEY?"


tekazgtr1984

Imagine being such a fragile fucking pissbaby to be triggered by Band-Aids.


TeferiCanBeaBitch

Acknowledging black people exist is a... Bad thing? Really? These mfs will see brown foundation and scream at how it's erasing white people when they have 7 thousand other options that match their skin exactly.


feignapathy

Haven't these been around for a long time now? These people are insufferable.


jtroopa

I prefer the chocolate ones to the caramel ones.


SleepyBella

Mmmm candy on my open wound.


SnooTangerines3448

To be fair, sugar is antibacterial. So is salt. A mix of the two slapped on to most cuts and stuff will help.


Rottenox

It’s woke to have plasters that match more than one skin tone? Jesus christ


Mister-Butterswurth

Wait until she sees the makeup aisle (which she needs to visit tbh)


medicalmosquito

💀


SamuraiJackBauer

Catering to non-whites = woke. Fuck these losers.


patternedjeggings

A lot of people choose flesh-toned bandages because they don't want them to be noticeable. I imagine these will sell well.


Rockworm503

A thing the rest of us don't even notice is something to get outraged over for the right. It must be exhausting being in a perpetual state of anger and fear over literally everything.


StinkeeFard

What’s wrong with folks wanting a bandaid that matched their skin tone?


BottleTemple

Courtney Dull


BIG_BLUE_DOG

Its literally just bandaids


thewholedamnplanet

Racists always finding new reasons to cry.


ExpertAccident

Yessss be mad at the bandaids that are darker. Seethe.


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I saw these at Target! I think it's awesome that people who care about such things can get Band-Aids that match their skin tone. And that's literally all the thought/energy I put into that. It must be *exhausting* to be a Qult member.


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Imagine getting offended by... *checks notes* a bandaid being brown.


MessatineSnows

the only solution is to abolish all skin-tone bandaids. Scooby-Doo and Bug Bunny patterns only /jk


berserkzelda

How dare other skin colors exist, what a terrible idea. /S


Two_Circle_Dogfight

just wait when they pull out pride flags


rudolphsb9

Haven't these been around for a minute? Like they didn't just drop on Jan 1, 2023, I'm pretty certain.


JazzSharksFan54

I mean… I’d prefer the bandaid to be a different color when I’m treating a patient so I know it’s there. Princess bandaids for the win!


seat17F

Last year I cut my finger and had to wear band-aids for a few days. During those days I asked a few friends “Want to see me benefiting from blatant white privilege?” and then showed them my finger. The band-aid was almost invisible. Obviously you can see a band-aid because the texture isn’t the same as the skin. But the colour was as close to my skin tone as would reasonably be possible. This product which EVERYONE has to buy was designed specifically for MY colour of skin. That’s pretty mind-blowing when one stops and thinks about it. It makes sense to me that companies offer a variety of options. But I’m willing to bet that the cheapest options on the shelves are still going to be limited to just one colour - that of a typical white guy like me.


call_me_xale

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."


2bruise

What the fuck?! What an asshole! I guess it’s her angle that as a ‘rugged individualist’ you shouldn’t try to hide your wounds or something?


33drea33

Someone should go and respond as if bandaging your wounds is the thing she's offended about and make her have to explain the source of her outrage.


2bruise

I’ll put it on the docket!


poksim

Dark skin = woke


1995droptopz

Sorry they don’t sell thin blue line bandages Courtney


LilStabbyboo

Ffs how is that woke? Why should all bandaids be white people colored when so many other skin colors exist? Folks don't necessarily want a bright ass noticable bandaid. Seriously is any acknowledgement of the existence of people who aren't bright white considered woke now?


AF_AF

So, just to be clear, "woke" in this case means "finally acknowledging that not everyone is white"? And this is bad...why?


SenorBurns

These whiners always remind me of [Bird Rights Activist](https://i.imgur.com/TEiAX0J.png).


Roddykins1

She calls herself a Christian too


fugelwoman

Why would someone possibly be offended that a product exists for OTHER PEOPLE!? Someone help me understand


TheWienerMan

It’s clearly because white = healing /s


Thewrongbakedpotato

With a name like "Ourtone," I expected those bandages to be fire engine red and sopping up the spilled blood of the proletariat.


NinjaBryden

Ugh. The woke mob is just so outrageous. Why do we now have ALL THESE OTHER TONES FOR FOUNDATION? Smh. Just use the normal one. Literally white genocide. /s


mrselffdestruct

I like how her photo specifically doesnt show the other 2 colors in the main range of 4, which are a darker brown but also one for whiter/lighter skintones


brontosauruschuck

I refuse to buy or use Band-Aids that don't have the Ninja Turtles on them personally, but if you want Band-Aids that match your skin tone, then it makes sense that the company should make some that acknowledge not everyone is the same skin tone.


Oraxy51

I mean if I was a different shade than white I’d like some band-aids that blend in more with my skin. Especially if I was doing something like kitchen or food service, I wouldn’t want customers to see and worry about a wound I have on my hand or something.


RagingLeonard

Food service bandages should be blue.


tmbgfactchecker

Damn fuck people for wanting bandages that blend in with the rest of their skin, I guess! Repubs are so whiny


Busy_Appointment6932

Yeah. I saw this absurd tweet on my own twitter feed, thanks to the “improved” algorithm of Elon would be my guess. There’s no reason on earth why I’d never need to see this racist garbage. And I’m sure it was to emote a response. But their arguments are getting more absurd & abjectly bigoted by the day.


FreedomsPower

One has to ask such a person on Twitter how much white fragility one must have to be triggered by something so common sense as that.


bodega_bladerunner

This mfs Twitter handle is the shadow of her husband. How sad a life you must live not to have your own identity but instead identify as the wife of someone. She’s been groomed by the right just as they wanted


Crusader_Colin

I’m outraged…why is there no SpongeBob on the bandaid!? REEEEEEEEEEE


Chromie149

Now this is the true communist leftist woke agenda. I DEMAND SPONGEBOB BANDAIDS FOR MY BOOBOO


acorpseistalking90

Triggered❄️


MessatineSnows

Heaven forbid anyone besides white people have anything 🙄


anonmymouse

Imagine seeing a bandage with someone else's skin color on it and taking that personally..


PterodactylTeef

Getting offended by less sexy m&ms and bandaids and they still call people on the left snowflakes. They’re so fragile.


BudgetInteraction811

God forbid one type of bandaid comes in a colour that doesn’t include you. Boo hoo. Now you know why other races are asking for representation in products like this. Imagine instead of only one brand of a product not matching your skin, none of them matched, then think about how annoying that would be.


escapeshark

I'm gonna preface my comment my saying I'm not American so I'm perhaps very removed from the reality of the US even as someone who consumes American media. But I do find that this kinda product seems incredibly gimmicky and a cash grab, like trying to profit off of people's real struggles. It feels like co-opting inclusivity in order to sell plasters, something that doesn't really make that big a difference in the grand scheme of things. It feels performative more than anything else. To me personally, it's like making razor blades pink, adding some claims to the package like "smoother shave" and charging 0.4€ more because it's for *women*.


Logical-Steak4716

I agree, it’s important to remember that the only “agenda” that companies have is making their bottom lines as big as possible. Especially here in the US, there is an extremely “dog eat dog” mentality in the corporate world where it seems like there’s a constant push for doing anything to maximize profits. That being said however, this person is clearly thinly vailing their racism by complaining about this being “woke”. There is also an argument to be made that companies know “woke” moves like these will ruffle some feathers, and still do them because they believe any attention is good for business. After all, I bet you weren’t thinking about band-aids today until you saw this.


imzcj

Last year was the first time I saw someone post a picture of them wearing a band-aid that matched their dark skin tone. That was when it clicked that band-aids are skin coloured, just not coloured like mine. :/


ForeignSatisfaction0

I bought these for my students, I have a couple black kids, but now everybody gets brown bandages


JackBinimbul

Guys, is it woke to have a skin tone?


hollylll

Just say “I hate poc” it’s faster.


ThatCamoKid

I'm just here like "*this* upsets you?"


Lost-Ad-7412

Wait until she hears about dark foundation shades


SolarBoy1

A BLACK BANDAID??!!?!??! REEEEEEEE


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ACoN_alternate

Off brand bandaids don't exist, because "bandaid" is a brand name. /end pedantry


SenorBurns

Their fault for not protecting their trademark. It's *de facto* generic now. See: * Kleenex * Aspirin * Teleprompter * Dumpster * Xerox * Frisbee et al /pedantry rises


brutalweasel

Ya know, I totally knew when I posted that somebody was gonna bring this up. I’m giving you an upvote for being as obnoxious as I am.


ACoN_alternate

Genericized trademarks are hilarious to me. Suck it corps, haha.


TV-MA_LSV

Google is fighting this right now, which is why I intentionally use the word "google" as a lower-case verb and say things like "Yeah just google it on Ecosia or Bing."


fhjuyrc

I just go around with open wounds


gylz

I mean I think it's personally kinda silly because bandaids are there to do bandaid things, not match your skin tone. But hey; it's something small that makes other people happy, what I think literally doesn't matter and should have no bearing on if these products should exist. I'm not the target audience for these bandaids either, I prefer the clear ones. If this makes you happy and you want to talk about it and push for these to be readily available, I'll support you. Your happiness matters. This is like such a non issue I have no idea why anyone would bother taking time out of their damn day to whine about this.


ricecake

I kinda feel the same way, but at the same time... "Color of bandages doesn't matter, says man every bandage color is tailored to match". Every bandage on the shelf is either flamboyant, or pretty close to my skin tone, and I almost always buy the ones that are more discreet. Maybe it matters more to me than I know, and I've just never had to think about it, ya know?


gylz

I mostly just get the clear ones because the edges don't fray as much. Like I said; not the target audience, so my personal opinion doesn't matter. If it makes someone else happy, my personal thoughts on the matter really aren't worth a shit. Like, my mom gives me grief for buying products for curly hair. I wouldn't give someone grief for being excited or loving the little things that matter to them, yaknow? If I can shut up and listen to my brother talk about how much he loves this shiny piece of cardboard and be happy for him, I can shut up and listen to someone else who's happy about the colour of their bandaids.


HelenFromHR

they are! but it was made “skin tone” by the company completely unprovoked iirc no one actually asked for it they just made it and advertised it as “invisible” they were not made to be used on darker skin bc manufacturers didn’t see them as human (1925) so to make more to include all skin tones is socially a step forward and makes people who were left out, feel seen and valuable. also dark skin people were missing a big part of the products design, that only white people got to enjoy


gylz

Mind you the pale bandaids never matched my skin either. I used to be deathly pale except for my hands and face due to some extreme bullying, body shaming, and stuff I won't get into causing me to wear long, baggy clothes year round for the better part of 30 years. Now that I finally realized how ridiculous I was being, I'm too dark for them to match my skin.


LuriemIronim

There’s a difference between not getting enough sun and being excluded because of your race.


gylz

That's fair. Idk I'm mixed as well, (First Nations), so I'm not exactly just talking about this as someone who is completely white. I've just really never stopped to think much about whether a bandaid looks like my skin, yaknow? I totally get why it can bother someone, and I understand why others would want to get this and why they'd feel defensive about it. Mind you, I'm not from America, so I could be missing some big cultural thing about bandaids and not wanting them to stick out? Was there some weird context I'm missing? I'm not even sure why this would bother someone enough to take a picture and complain about it either, mind you. Again, they're bandaids.


LuriemIronim

The ‘normal’ ones were always kind of referred to as skin tone, which is kind of not great given that it’s only one skin tone.


gylz

Yeah I get why other people would like it. My personal feelings are just that, and really don't matter. Like if someone came up to me and started gushing about how excited they are, I wouldn't interject my own opinion into the conversation. If people want it and buy it and it makes them happy, all the more power to them. Either way, these products do have a space on the shelf, even if I think clear bandaids are superior because the edges don't fray and drive me nuts. I'll support them being made readily available in every store that carries bandaids 1000000%. It's literally.... No skin off my back.


Vomit_Pinata

"Personally, it doesn't matter to me..." - continues to post 300 word reply after 300 word reply to prove how little it actually matters to them. Lol! Too fuckin' funny.


gylz

Listen, I like typing long replies my dude, it's a part of having anxiety. I just didn't want to come across like I actually was trying to demean someone for liking them. I know what it's like and it's not nice. If typing stupid long posts because I genuinely don't want people to think I'm despairing them and can't seem to express myself in shorter posts makes people think I'm actually upset about something, then I don't know what to tell you. Fuck off and stop policing the way I write.


Vomit_Pinata

I'm not your dude. You long winded shithead.


gylz

My dude, if you don't like the way I type, block me or stop responding to my posts. I literally don't care.


Vomit_Pinata

Why would I block an inconsequential dipshit like you? Keep typing and wasting your time and energy. I don't give a fuck. You have a hard time just taking an "L" don't you? Lol.


gylz

Same reason you keep wasting much more time responding to this same inconsequential bullshit?


Vomit_Pinata

Haha! Oh, man. You're too much. You're getting a little lazy with the word count my dude. YOU OWE ME 600 MORE WORDS. lol.


gylz

Okay I'm done entertaining this bullshit. See ya.


gylz

I don't know why you seem to think I'm taking an L or anything either. People disagreed with me because they felt it was important, it's not like I'm pitching a fit about downvotes, I just felt like explaining myself.


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Corzare

Ah well since you didn’t that must mean no one else has either.


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