Package Design of The Day
Package Design of The Day
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- _niko5
Native people have called the imagery racist, and that it goes "hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls.... by depicting Native women as sex objects," according to Rep. Ruth Buffalo, D-Fargo, who is a registered member of the Mandan, Hidatsa Arikara Nation, and is from Fort Berthold Reservation.
don't see how a respectful native American girl in traditional dress = sex trafficking but whatever.
I think the only thing this is doing really is erasing Native Americans from the collective conscious. Erasing their imagery and history. They're already out of sight and out of mind and probably the most under-represented group in all walks of North American life.
- I mean, maybe they could have updated her with a modern Native American girl? Without the feathers and traditional clothes? but i'm sure someone would_niko
- ...have freaked out about that too.
oh well._niko - someone fixed this a while back, _niko:
https://i.imgur.com/…PonyBoy - Hayoth will now boycott butter, fucking Commies ruin everything!utopian
- Haha pony_niko
- what about a pic of an obese all-american gal that LOVES her butter?microkorg
- @_niko: potentially racist and sexist problems aside, I'm really not sure what an indigenous woman has to do with butter at all, from the point of view ...Continuity
- ... of brand narrative. Butter was introduced to the Americas by Europeans, a quick look on Wiki reveals. So yeah, I don't get what her presence on there ...Continuity
- ... said to begin with. And she didn't match up, either, with the brand name. And, actually, the brand name doesn't really speak about butter, either.Continuity
- None-Yank CD's conclusion: this brand sucks on at least three levels.Continuity
- Also, salted. Ugh.Continuity
- It comes in unsalted as well, obviously.monospaced
- You said it. “Erasing THEIR imagery and history...” what’s on that package isn’t their imagery, it’s a Disney interpretation of it.ben_
- When I moved to the US from Canada I was shocked to see this imagery on a brand at the grocer. Not offended, just surprised.nb
- it's a caucasian woman in native costumeBustySaintClaire
- I don't know, it seems like a cop out. there, we removed the native imagery so everyone's happy. Instead, they should have said fuck you, we're keeping_niko
- it since it was painted by a native artist, and we are also donating 5% of our yearly profits to indigenous rights groups and communities and we're also_niko
- hiring a certain amount of native workers in white collar positions including on our board. That would be something. This erasing is a weak gesture._niko
- and i could understand if they removed her and went in a totally different direction, new packaging, branding etc, but all they did was remove her, erasing her_niko
- ...from history like some Stalinesque soviet era photo manipulation. it's just odd._niko
- Well it's weak gesture because they're just caving to pressure and don't really "care" about anything other than the bad press.ben_
- The fact that an indigenous artist painted it doesn't mean it's accurate, either. Times change... pitch them on a new design.ben_
- You guys know the titty trick, right? You can fold her knees up and it looks like bewbzscarabin