It starts with 'skin whitening' and ends with breast enlargement and a Brazillian.

i hear they're handing out poor brazilians at the airports in sao paulo.

i use my to keep the house clean, do the gardening, and other menial chores.

much like queenslanders do aboriginals.

I hear you can get a cream for that nowadays

And preferential treatment in Australian cells!

This is explains why Islamist Fundies insist on the Burka then.

I was kept in hospital for a week when I was born, while doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with me. Eventually they just came to the conclusion that, uhhh, I was white.

I hear you can get a cream for that nowadays.

Can't I be pale and pretty?

You look absolutely fine to me Robin. As fine as a 10mm high cartoon woman has ever looked, in fact.

They're selling the same product to the same market, but have to tone down the advertising because they also say:

Throughout the ages, women's bodies have been manipulated to fit the latest fad. We've been trussed up, pumped up, corseted and…

Robyn: a ghostly edge is still…

I'm pale-as, and all around me is this culture that says that I'd look better with golden glowing skin. Fake tan, bronzers, even bloody Natural Glow wants to de-white me.…

I expect some conservative souls would try to settle on a nice light nut brown permanently but I'll certainly be…

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Martin Luther King is the second most admired person of the 20th century, according to a Gallup poll.

Perhaps the US are ready for its first female president then, given that the list is topped by mother Theresa (although I'm sure Christopher Hitchens will demand some sort of recount). And…

but then, if we accept that people are allowed to change their appearance in so many other ways – teeth whitening, implants etc, it's going to be hard to convince people about this being wrong.

I predict the argument will go…