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What does Benneton rainbow complex mean?


Does that make a reference to the clothing store, "United Colours of Benneton," meaning that Selma Blair's character is falsely pretending to be all for equal rights and not racist, but really isn't? Or does it mean something else?

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That's it exactly.

She keeps repeating "don't be racist" in the bathroom... at first I thought it meant "do not consider this guy to be some pervert just because he's black" or something like that... but later I gave it a second thought... and I think it actually meant "do not fall for the cliche myth that because he's black he may be a huge penis and be a great lover"... which she finally did. I thought she was going to get the hell out of his apt. after seeing the pictures of the other student, but she actually stayed and did everything he told her.
Or maybe not being racist was too big an issue for her and she preferred to indulge in everything the guy wanted out of the fear that she could be considered racist if the left... I don't know.

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