The recent advertisement on television for fairer vaginas has done its bit to engage, enrage and amuse. What more can a little ad do, after all?

Rupa Gulab “shamefully confessed” to not being outraged by the ad, she was so busy rolling on the floor with mirth. In any case, it’s not advisable, she sagely counsels, to look down your nose on fairness cream manufacturers:

“they may notice that your nostrils resemble black holes and cannily invent a specialized fairness cream to lighten them up.”

Lindy West is thrilled:

“Splendid! God, I was just saying the other day that my misogyny didn’t have enough racism in it.”

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