http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png http://jezebel.com/tag/color wars http://jezebel.com/tag/color wars

Someone believes Julian Assange is not creepy enough in his natural state, and invites us to take artistic license. It's a metaphor about the wildly dissonant representations of him! Or something. Your best versions in the comments. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5730859&view=rss&microfeed=true

Are those pernicious skin-lightening creams sold in India just capitalizing on deeply-ingrained, subconscious beliefs about skin color, good and evil? Well researchers at the University of Toronto think so. They analyzed over 2,000 photographs of men and women from advertisements and concluded that men are subconsciously attracted to women with lighter skin because they equate whiteness with "purity, innocence, modesty and goodness," according to the Press Trust Of India. Women, on the other hand, are attracted to swarthier men because "darker complexions are associated with sex, virility and danger." (Related: didn't Carl Jung come up with these archetypes like a hundred years ago?) More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368746&view=rss&microfeed=true

Now that fashion week is over, today's WWD poses a question: Where were the black models? "Everyone is always talking about the weight issue," photographer and America's Next Top Model judge Nigel Barker says. "I think they should be talking about race." Barker says that the celebrity designers — not the ready-to-wear or couture ones — are willing to use a wider range of models. And, in our experience, it was the "outsider" shows, not held in the tents — Baby Phat/KLS, Heatherette — in which we saw black (and Asian) women walking the runway. Last Friday, at a panel discussion called "The Lack of the Black Image in Fashion Today," WWD reports that Bethann Hardison, a former model and founder of casting company Bethann Management, says "In the United States of America, this is the one industry that still has the freedom to refer to people by their color and reject them in their work. I came up in the Sixties. I feel it's the worst it's ever been." More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=300452&view=rss&microfeed=true

• Is smoking weed a guy thing? Charlize Theron and her homemade apple bong beg to differ! While we can think of plenty of female stoners we know personally, we're not too big on the ganj ourselves. The munchies are a brutal affront to bikini season. [The Stranger]

More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=292235&view=rss&microfeed=true