A Probability of Being

Hey folks! It's Fun with Glow Magazine, again, in which I flip through Glow magazine to identify just how racially representative the media in the magazine is! I get Glow for free since I spend plenty on my Shoppers Optimum. I actually do love this magazine, but hell if I'm going to not make fun of how whitewashed it is. And this month, it's a double-doozy since there's a special issue on Montreal's Fashion Week!! So let's get through the main magazine! COVER: White. Vichy ad: white Pantene stuff: white, white, white, white. Aveeno: White Table of contentts: white Revlon: White. I don't know, she could pass as black. Vichy: White, blue-eyed Marc Anthony: white, white, white Editorial and L'Oreal: white, white Juicy Couture ads: white boy, white woman Aveeno ad: Unsure! Olive skin. Makeup-tip: White, blue-eyed. CoverGirl: white Beauty Talk - Hair update: Black! White, white, white, white white, Asian, white, white, More Beauty talk, on lipsticks: white Co...

Yay! I have a sneaking suspicion that I am not receiving every single issue of glow magazine, which is a shame, because then we could be doing this every month, but that's okay. I still like reading it, and I like the coupons, and it's time to go through the pages again and check out just how multi-racial our media can be! Cover page: white white white white white white white white white white white white Ooooooh, Penelope Cruz! white, white (well, maybe mixed?), white, brown-skinned PoC! white white Asian, white white, white white, oooo Rosario Dawson, and Scarlett Johansson, white, white Plenty of bottles. I like looking at bottles, some of them are really creative and pretty! white, PoC, white, white, brown?, whitewhite, white Ooooooh, I love this: a bunch of silhouettes. I think that's very nice, since I can imagine any ethnicity in them but no natural black hair! white product product product! white, white, whitewhite, white, white, white, possibly brown? white, white,...

So, along with my Shoppers Optimum Card (oh yes, I love this thing), I also subscribed to Glow magazine. It's a lot more consumerist than the Malaysian Cleo magazine which I used to read when I was younger, top-heavy with stuff to buy, but I like knowing what's on the market for makeup. The other thing I like to do with this? Is count how many PoC are in it. Oh yes. In a country that purports to be racially-diverse, and there are many promotional material actually feature people of colour? Just the other day I was struck by a pamphlet which had an Asian family right in the front. This was striking not because I'm also Asian, but because it's not exactly commonplace in fashion magazines. I cut Canada slack, but not too much. Along the way, I'll also judge the articles and the images accompanying them and so on so forth. It'll be fun! Front cover: white girl. White White White White White (but possibly mixed) White White LIPSTICK! Yeah, because we so want free li...