I wasn’t worried or concerned. I was just wondering if my observation was correct, which is why I posted this minor observation in MPSIMS instead of Great Debates. As far as to what you think I should concern myself about, perhaps you could post a list (numbered as to their importance, of course) and I will give it due diligence.
An interesting question. Looking at the nearest big box o’ gloves, the model’s skin does not look especially dark (though it is hard to tell with unknown studio lighting), if that is what you are talking about, but honestly you cannot see much of her and the print is not of particularly high quality. Why do you not assume it is just a random person from whatever Chinese factory town? Though who knows what type of bizarre marketing may be at play.
I looked at the box of disposable gloves in my (UK) kitchen and the picture on the front shows a pair of unambiguously caucasian, female hands, She is using her right hand to pull a glove onto the other.
I’m in rehab. The nurses, CNAs and other workers of all races are all gloved and masked.
I’ve never ever even remotely thought of this… Now I certainly will.
The box hanging in my room are beige. The box has no pictures just words in Chinese or some other language. Hmm?
I used to sew for the Li’l Wrekkers dance teacher. One year the 12yos had a beautiful Tutu and a purchased white leotard. The girls were racially diverse. Came time for dress rehearsal, you know that’s like 5 or 6 days before performance.
The darker girls didn’t look good in the white leotards. I had to line them all. I was still doing it the night before performance…they also had nude stockings. I made an executive decision back stage and made them remove them. Looked horrible on them.
Miss Connie was about to rebuke me and I told her I made them take off white eyeshadow too.
She fumed about it for a couple of days til she saw the photographs.
So… I don’t know maybe some peon on the cutting room floor got brave enough and said it didn’t look as good. To an higher up.
That’s my take.
Another observation…. The hands shown on glove boxes are all hands with five digits, even though the average human hand has fewer.
Umm, are the gloves in box seven just for digital exams?!
Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, finger up your ass, cough, baby!
I’m tired of everything being racist. They’re just disposable gloves. In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter?
Sorry in advance if this offends someone.
Yes, why can’t people just accept that White is the default race, amIright?
Also there are people with extra digits as well as people with congenital absence or amputation. These gloves are ablest as well as racist!
My proctologist is so stingy…
I think that’s exactly the point; and exactly the problem.
I doubt that either most of the purchasers, or any of whoever decided on the pictures, even noticed. And that’s exactly the point; and exactly the problem.
And that is exactly the point; and the beginnings of removing the problem.
So, believe me, is everybody complaining about it. How do you expect it to stop, if nobody’s supposed to mention it?
Oh, so the black guy gets stuck with the clean-up?
Out of curiosity, I went to Shutterstock and looked at stock photos of rubber gloves. Ignoring photos that didn’t show any skin, I counted 51 images before I reached one of an obviously Black man. There were two other images in between that might be someone of color or might be a white dude with more shadowy lighting.
I then counted another 210 photos without seeing another Black person before moving on with my life. I might have seen a couple Latino people in there but don’t feel confident guessing.
Acknowledging that other races exist is not a political statement.
You can draw a direct line from bias in nursing school admissions and patient care to the baseline assumption that the default race is white. Pictures of hands might seem trivial, but it all contributes to the unconscious attitude that white is the default.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that caught that.
You’re tired? How do you think Blacks feel?
How long did you have to search to find that example?
Oh - About three minutes. Dumb luck.
(But the way things are going lately, it will turn out that the skin color on the website is an artifact and the skin color on the actual box is different…)
I looked on the McMaster-Carr website (they sell all the things) and it appears that all of the gloves they sell are modeled by Caucasian wrists. However, it’s hard to be definitive as they cleverly have almost all of their images in black & white. So you can’t really tell if the skin is peach or tan or olive or even mocha. You just can tell that there’s no wrists that would be considered “dark” Black skin.