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Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Guillotine

Maybe the name of this could be changed to Mens Black Grooming Kit?? I feel like the name as it is doesn't sound very good

Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
Muerte
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Forevermore

I'm not against the line being changed for all of them... But I need to ask why this particular one and not yellow or red ? Saying "black man/men" isn't racist. Similarly, brown men in the same context isn't racist. Calling an Asian man yellow or a Native American man red, is. So I've gotta know, why that one and not the others ?

Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Guillotine

@ Muerte I didn't know it was a line lol I was just doing quests and saw the item

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But I think the same switch for the entire line would be prudent

Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Precious Angel

I agree that the name should be changed for all of them

Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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White Rabbit

A switch would make no grammatical sense. It's a men's grooming kit that's black, not a black grooming kit that's men's.

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Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Prince

As a black person I'm not offended by this item name, if that's what the issue is?

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Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Ito

Or how about we just remember that colors are, in fact, just colors and not always a derogatory term. Remember to look at the context, kids.

Mar 22, 2016 10 years ago
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Riza

I agree it should be changed to mens -descriptive hair colour name- grooming kit, they'll be easier to find in a group this way, I think, and it sounds better to me too.


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Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
Muerte
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Forevermore

Yep.

Mens Black Grooming Kit is grammatically correct.

(This comment isn't directed at anyone in particular) Again, I am not against this being changed. But I also don't see it as needed. I find it hilarious how this has popped up as an issue. Sugar skull inspired pets were shot down by users for fear of being seen as racist (when it's not, even when I explained to them that it's not)... But yet people argued so profusely that G*psy items shouldn't be changed, or that the war bonnet item shouldn't be changed even though they ARE racist. Ah, people. Don't want to be seen as racist but refuse to acknowledge when something is racist.

Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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White Rabbit

The ones arguing against the changes were probably different people than the ones who objected to the Sugar Skull pets, though?

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Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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Guillotine

It doesn't offend me nor do I see a change as a necessity but I was just suggesting it because I think it has the potential to offend some

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I'm not screaming "WOW this is so offensive take it down!!!" because it's really not but regardless of context the phrasing of the item can be taken the wrong way.

Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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Unkindled

As a Chinese (yellow) person, I can say that I am not at all offended by the name of this item, nor did I think of it in any other context other than the color of the grooming kit. Though I guess I'm in the minority that kept it within context.

Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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Wuf

I don't mind if this gets changed, but I do think it is unnecessary

First rule of the internet is that context is irrelevant, isn't it?

Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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Beau Alex

What "wrong way"?? To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a black men's grooming kit is just a black men's grooming kit....

Mar 23, 2016 10 years ago
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I understand the feeling of not wanting people to be offended, but I feel like if someone were to be offended by an item being described as a color, then, in the words of Ron Weasley:

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