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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-06-10 09:04 AM
Response to Reply #142
147. It's too late to edit, but I also thought of two more things.
1. Since I grew up in the 80s, I can think of a media example using a white 80s band:

If you look at Duran Duran's video "Rio," the white woman is the lofty, desirable one, being pursued to the point of men willingly looking like idiots. But in "Hungry Like the Wolf," the black woman is to be hunted down and conquered (and supposedly she will put up a wild fight doing so). White woman = unattainable goddess, black woman = animal to be hunted down and subdued.

(Of course I won't go into the misogyny of black rap groups and how they treat black women; that's another discussion for another time, but that imagery doesn't help, either.)

2. I was friends with my husband for 5-6 years before I married him. So that's how I knew he was interested in me as a person, and not as a booty call, curiosity or freak of nature.
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