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Utah Magazine apologizes for "Women of Color" headline
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:46 pm
by _DarkHelmet
Is this an example of cultural insensitivity in Utah Vally, or political correctness run amok?
Original headline:
http://gawker.com/5924561/utah-magazine-celebrates-its-white-women-of-colorApology:
http://blog.uvmag.com/apology/
Re: Utah Magazine apologizes for "Women of Color" headline
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:40 pm
by _angsty
"It was just clever wordplay. It was that women add color, and there's more than one meaning of color."
It wasn't particularly clever, and no one needed to have it explained. There may be more than one meaning for "color," but "women of color" has a clear racial connotation in American English. I'm sure they thought they were being oh-so-cute, but they just come across as oh-so-ignorant. And white. Very white.
Re: Utah Magazine apologizes for "Women of Color" headline
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:03 am
by _3sheets2thewind
"Women of color" gets 4.4million hits on Google and 1.2million pic results, the first of which is for a lesbian website.