Of Shampoo and Political Correctness
I ran into a dilemma recently: I went to Wallgreens and purchased shampoo. The shampoo that I bought was on some sort of sale, and the bottle had a paper sale-label that covered most of the front. The bottle on sale was right next to that shampoo that I wanted, and it was the same shape, brand and color as the one that I wanted, so I assumed that they were the same –even though I couldn’t read the bottle because of the label-. When I got home and tore off the label, I read the part of the bottle that had been covered: …“shampoo for women of color”.
Needless to say, I was mortified. This was not the shampoo that I wanted. However, I could not go to Walgreens and tell the clerk that I had bought “shampoo for women of color” and OBVIOUSLY that was a mistake. I haven't the guts.
So I used the shampoo, and I have not noticed a big difference in how it treats my hair.
Morals of this story:
- Americans are too sensitive to “race issues” and this has repercussions in our daily lives, especially concerning hair care.
- Shampoo “for women of color” is a hoax.
- Never buy something without reading what it says first.
- I, apparently, am a woman of "non-color"---?????---
1 comment:
I think *I* should go try and return it, you can walk in a few minutes before and watch from the candy isle while I make a huge scene. Once I pulled something like this at work that mortified my boss. We were talking about a technology called black-listing and white-listing, one of the people in the meeting was black and so I gave him this look and with his nod of non-verbal agreement, I raised my hand and started a rant about race issues and being sick of white this and black that and that my african american friend over here and I have already contacted the NAACP over this and a representative was on the way. You have never seen terror like that in a upper-class rich over 40 male face in your entire life.
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