This has been going on for many years.
White guys and white boys are not in ad pics. On purpose.
The war on whites is being subtley broadcast, and in particular, white men. This crap is their way of covert/overt showing it. If you point it out then they can jump on you for being sensitive or paranoid.
And if anyone disagrees I seriously do not care at all to hear from you.
I agree with you.
When you make comparisons of total numbers of any particular group compared to the total of people in the US you will find the blacks are present in the teen digits (I think I remember 13%) yet when you count the total number of ads with people in them, you will find the blacks and other minorities combined far exceed the percentage number of whites no matter how you make the comparisons.
I made this type of comparison for older women v older men in terms of their representation in the total population of the US, then in terms of their representation in the ads in consumer magazines (Walmart check out mags)). I was looking for models with at least one wrinkle on their face. Less than 1% of all models of either sex in all “family” magazines were 60 yo or older. YET, who spends the money?
This type of marginalization is becoming critical for Elders in the US as that very marginalization is substantially increasing the total cost of medical care, for example, of people who are supporting medical care costs (no matter how they are doing it). The Elderly tend to be warehoused in substandard facilities overseen by substandardly trained caregivers of every variety.
I am not sure what the solution is but beginning with the expectation that many elderly are cared about by their kids and family members, perhaps having small group homes near some family might be better than warehousing.
Or do our kids really not like us as we age? I have some thoughts on that, too. I’d like to see a study done on how kids see their inheritance of the parents goods and money influences the kids decision to assist the elderly. It might be a shocker .
Agree, this is happening everywhere in the magazine field.
One big reason,apparently, is that women are reading magazines. When Time, Fortune, and many other mainstream pubs were bought Meredith Publishing, Meredith, a powerhouse in women’s magazines began putting also sorts of woman- and virtue-signaling-stories in Time and Fortune.
Sickening to read many of the stories in Fortune because they are purposely make it look like women are leading American business.
When I read Fortune now, I am immediately looking for this bias in every story I read. It’s sickening.
A friend of mine was in HR at a large company. She said the way the company got around interviewing white men for job openings was to advertise “Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.” So, they didn’t come right out and say “No white men need apply,” but the intent was the same.