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my brother sent me a link to this slideshow about the movie the help.

set in mississippi in 1963 The Help tackles heavy issues and stays true to the look and feel of the era in every way. while the movie made us cry, the clothes and furnishings made us swoon. here’s how to bring a little southern charm into your home and wardrobe.

yep, nothing like that good ol’ racist 1960’s southern charm. it’s based on the book and it’s about being a black maid working in a white household, but all this slideshow does is go, “yeah,all that stuff was bad, but hey, those mean white ladies wore some nice dresses right? and weren’t the kitchens they never used pretty awesome looking? why not try and capture that look for yourself?”

look at that last caption, “at your service”? oh my god, i mean it’s just like, “hey maybe it was pretty cool when civil rights weren’t a thing, you know? i mean white and black people came out of it alright. why not put on this nice dress and pretend you’re back there? throw a garden party with your gal pals, life was pretty sweet.” it’s like that banana republic mad men thing, only this is all about race.

Everything about this is terrible. Who was the editor who was like, “this is a great idea and not racist at all, why have we not already published this?”

Disgusted with everything. Going back to studying math.

Where does one purchase the unassuming Black woman in the maids uniform?  Bloomingdales?  Nordstroms?

You can see the black women in their maid outfits in every picture but one…

The fact that no one so much as paused before doing this layout & said “Hmm this idea is a bad idea” says so much about American media.

This is like that African Colonial Wedding shit

Yeah, this is in pretty bad fucking taste. I mean I understand doing “get the look” for Mad Men or Hairspray or something but how is this article even real? It’s flabbergasting, it really is. The header down next to one of the pictures says “At Your Service”. HOW could that plus the pictures with the black women in the background not be looked at by an editor with any sort of brain at all and not be scrutinized for turning a movie that is at least slightly about racism into a sugar coated fashion spread? That last line underneath the main title should read: “Here’s how to bring a little Southern flaming racism and brutal ignorance into your home and wardrobe…wait, were there black women in this movie?”