The ad was in a women’s magazine and if I remember correctly, was for a perfume. It featured a white woman lying in bed with a black man. The man’s shirtless back was to the viewer, making only his taut, muscular form and powerful-looking arms and shoulders visible. He was faceless, unidentified. The woman looked sultrily at us from over his mysterious form, satisfaction writ large over her features. She had partaken of whatever delights this man had to offer and was smugly, luxuriantly basking in the afterglow.
The ad copy was, “Take a walk on the wild side.”
My teacher used the ad as an example of how marketers can use certain words and images to convey large amounts of information subtly and effectively. A white woman having sex with a black man? How risqué. The implication: be a little like that woman. Spray on that perfume and feel like the kind of girl who has sex with faceless, muscular black men in ritzy hotel rooms because it’s an adventure, a thrill, a risk, something illicitly pleasurable.
These are the semiotics of race. This is why columnists will trip over themselves not to call Lupita Nyong’o or Angela Basset “beautiful”, choosing instead to use terms that call to mind a kind of savage, animalistic magnetism: fierce, striking, edgy, eye-catching. Words like “pretty” and “beautiful” and “cute” are for white women whose bodies and sexualities are not seen as wild, animal, or untamed. Black men are hulking, threatening, thuggish; white men are charming, sexy heartthrobs with hearts of gold. Brown women are exotic, with their “honey-coloured” skin and their “mystical”, “enchanting” beauty, unlike their white counterparts, who are held up as not only ideal, but knowable and safe. White people are beautiful; non-white people are dangerous.
by Aaminah Khan (via Black Girl Dangerous)
Meet Iwanko, and is a Rock-type Pokémon. It’s ability is ability is Keen Eye or Vital Spirit. It is the Deep Eye Pokémon.
This new pokemon was introduced in today’s corocoro leaks and i must say, I AM IN LOVE WITH IT. The fact that it’s a Rock type makes it seem so cool and cute all at the same time. (´ω｀*)
We’ve also have Nekkoala, the Contagious Dream Pokémon which is Normal-type with the ability Definite Sleep which prevents it being afflicted with a status other than sleep.
it seems Corocoro has also shown us the first game-play footage of Magearna!
I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL E3 SHOWS US MORE INFO ABOUT THESE POKEMON!!
Source: corsolanite
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#ThankYouBernie for putting a huge effort into making a change. You’re a hero.
#ThankYouBernie You/We still have more work to do!
Photography Yolanda Benintendi
Sabi Sand, South Africa
“ Spring Is Doubly Sweet at Highland Wildlife Park ” ☛ http://bit.ly/1H4qgBK Photography from the Zooborn!
. Whale of a Tail. Photography by @ (Jamie Benson). Whale Watch, Provincetown, Sept 19, 2015. #ocean_life #dive #whale #splash #waves #tail #ocean #animals #beautiful #nature #Tail
