So it upsets me to no end that some of these newfangled face detection cameras are actually racist! Asian people using them are told by the camera that the subject blinked – when in truth, this is how our eyes are!

I have had it with the inherent racism in so many different types of products. I can’t wear a sleeping mask, even though I must sleep many times during daylight hours because of my work schedule. Almost every kind of sleeping mask I have ever tried pushes my eyes back into my skull. I don’t have deep eye sockets. My eyeballs are seated at the front of my face, which is common in most Asian faces. And so I stay awake all day long when I desperately need sleep. Because of racism! I have never had a pair of glasses fit properly because I don’t have a raised bridge on my nose.

I never realized that's why those masks are so uncomfortable. I thought that's how they were supposed to be.

Keep on telling it like it is, Margaret!

Feministing compares this to Lego's current barfalicious pink girl-targeted advertising. Really a step backward.

via Megan (on Facebook)

Mental illness is feared and has such a stigma because it represents a reversal of what Western humans . . . have come to value as the essence of human nature,” McGruder concludes. “Because our culture so highly values . . . an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems more changeable, less restrained and less controllable, more open to outside influence, than we imagine our own to be.

A must-read about the spread of Western/American conceptions of mental illness. Worth reading if you're at all interested in mental health or cultural studies.

Why did BustedTees discontinue them? It's clever on... at least two levels that I can think of.

(Previously in "No Homo" news)