Reader Michaela spotted this one while christmas shopping online. Called the “Tiger Lily Teapot”, she sports the awesome stereotypes of braids, a headband, a feather, and “indian” designs and colors. The description (via Fred Flare) reads:
This darling lil’ lady is outfitted with a small interior metal steeper and her head becomes the tea cup when you remove her feathered top! Bold colors and a happy face will brighten your kitchen even on the coldest day.
yeah. you drink out of her head:
I’d call that a bit de-humanizing.
Fred Flare: Tiger Lily Teapot
Earlier:
Random Appropriation of the Day (Totem Cups)
(Thanks Michaela!)
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When I drink tea, I prefer to do so without a) decapitating someone b) being a totally obvious racist.
Good lord.
It seems like right around the time the designer was sketching the removable scalp, faint memories of history class should have come back to her.
By the way (I forgot to mention this in the email), Fred Flare also sells the totem cups you mentioned a few months ago.
http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=5579&cat=254
How could you miss the “Disney couture” feather Pocahontas earrings?
http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=6529&cat=283
Is it dehumanizing when lots of novelty teapots are shaped like people, or is it the fact that many peoples’ only experience with a minority is going to be in the form of a teapot?
@Syera:
You scalp them to drink the tea…
Fred Flare used to sell this as well: http://ringoblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screen-shot-2010-06-02-at-7.19.51-AM.png
Absurd.