(PCM) At least according to the editorial board of a college newspaper in Oklahoma, who recently made the claim that bras are racist because they happen to come in colors called “nude”. The newspaper went on to say that since non-white people’s skin isn’t that particular color when they are nude, then of course the bras must be racist.
Some of the questions asked by the staff published editorial in the Oklahoma Daily were “How would it make you feel that the fashion industry and society at large has based its ideal of nude on Caucasian people? That the color of your skin doesn’t count as ‘nude’?”
The editorial also went on to use the same logic to explain that “nude” make-up, “flesh-colored clothing, and Band-Aids were also racist products.
We have to take a moment to point a few key arguments that we discovered when checking out this editorial. First off, so-called “nude” make-up definitely comes in a variety of different shades to match multiple skin tones and ethnicity’s, it is not strictly Caucasian. Also, the overall purpose of a nude bra was never to match a particular skin tone. It was created in that color so that it would not show through a lightly colored shirt. If you where a white, black, or multi-colored bra it will most certainly show through a white shirt, however a “nude” bra will not…it’s that simple! The overall purpose to be sure that a woman’s bra does not show through her clothing.