Wow. I suppose women with low self-esteem need makeup that coordinates with their "cum dumpster" t-shirts, but still....
Pretty much stopped right there. A single product--whether it's in good taste or not to market it--will either succeed or fail. If it fails, the market will have shown the investors how distasteful the idea is. If it succeeds, then there are enough people out there who think it's a good product. Either way, it's not in any way, shape, or form evidence of some eventual demise of capitalism. As Marx was disastrously wrong about the course of history, I'm astounded that anyone would still put any stock in his ideas...
Articles that assume the reader is familiar with the back story are full of fail and AIDS. What you think are some of the best stories you've ever read, miniborg, are mind numbing drivel. I assume I would be compelled by them if I could figure what's going on.But, since I'm not compelled (since I can't figure out what's going on from the articles that open with the assumption I understand)... I'm not compelled. I am reminded of South Park characters smelling their own fart.
There's a spree of murders of factory-working young women in a town in mexico. The very expensive makeup range MAC has created a range based on this, creating ghostly looks, drawing on the idea of massacre. It's the same vein as bringing out a toy gun range called 'columbine', or baby powder called 'paedophiles dream'. People think this is a bit fucked up.
And for the record, I'd never heard of any of this until I read the article I posted. I thought the first few lines were enough.
It is fucked up...but I doubt it will be any more than a glitch for Estee Lauder. Their make-up really is of a superior quality and I doubt very many women who use them regularly will stop over a stupid marketing decision that has already been reversed.
