To celebrate International Women's Day,Arnold Reyes Archives Snapchat released a series of filters featuring three prominent women from history: Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo and Marie Curie. The problem? Marie Curie's filter is a complete mess. Now, users across Twitter are sharing their outrage.
SEE ALSO: Evan Spiegel has already made $1.5 billion off Snapchat's IPOFor one thing, the lens gives users full eye makeup, including what look like fake eyelashes. Apparently, being a female scientist is all about...looking good?
The lens also shows chemicals combusting—which is a bit of a shame, given that Curie died due to longterm exposure to radiation. In fact, there's a bitter irony in the fact that Snapchat chose to adorn their version of Marie Curie with long fake eyelashes, since radiation often causes hair loss.
In other words, Marie Curie's brave research may have caused her to lose her eyelashes all together. Snapchat chose to give her fancy long ones instead.
Really, if you're working with the kinds of chemicals that Marie Curie did, you should be wearing protective eyewear.
Sure, that might make you look less hot, but that's not what contributing to science is about, regardless of your gender.
If Snapchat wanted to be scientifically accurate, their filter would have featured safety goggles. Instead, it communicated that having your makeup didis apparently more important than protecting your eyeballs.
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To make matters worse, the filter isn't even scientifically accurate. The chemical featured, guanosine, is missing all of its double bonds.
"Not to mention it's all just the same structure over and over, which seems a little lazy to me," sighed Kathryn Wendorf, a friend of Mashablewith a degree in chemistry from Harvard University.
Even more embarrassing, the chemical featured has basically nothing to do with Marie Curie's numerous contributions to science. A simple call to any expert could have prevented this from happening.
Since Snapchat only gifted you with the ability to make yourself look like a glamorous version of Marie Curie, we'll do the due diligence of giving you the facts.
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Marie Curie:
...is Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
Who won not one, but twoNobel Prizes.
Pierre Curie and she were awarded the prize for their research on radiation.
Curie then went on to win another in chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium.
She is the only woman in history to win two Nobel Prizes.
To give Snapchat the benefit of the doubt, unlike Rosa Parks, Marie Curie doesn't, in fact, have her own estate. For its Rosa Parks filter, Snapchat collaborated with the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.
Still, Snapchat had ample opportunity to collaborate on the lens with the world's many, many female scientists.
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After facing backlash for its previous effort in creating lenses, Snapchat created an internal review system for each lens to be approved (TBT to the blackface and yellowface lenses it made last year, which sparked outrage).
This means lenses are not just created and signed off by CEO Evan Spiegel but also passed by a group of members from Snapchat's diversity resource groups.
Snapchat did not elaborate on what these resources groups are and who is in the council.
Snapchat has never released a diversity report, so we don't know how many employees are female, nor do we know how many have scientific backgrounds, or a knowledge of Marie Curie's achievements.
For their part, Snapchat couldn't immediately give an answer to why the lens included makeup and why the scientific structure was inaccurate and not related to radiation. Nor did it immediately make its diversity numbers or the names of its employee resource groups available.
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