The fact that racist people really think physical attraction is void of social power structures is beyond me.
No, science and biology didn’t make you not attracted to an entire race of people. Racism did that.
It’s called a preference???
Did you not read the post? You can’t have a preference that excludes an entire race of people without being racist. Where do you think those preferences come from?
Especially preferences that exclude people of color. We learn what race/ethnicity/phenotype are attractive by the social power structures we are surrounded by.
There’s absolutely no possible way for a person to find every single black, or every single Asian or every single (Insert race) person unattractive because there is so much physical, phenotypical and internal diversity within each race.
So, as an example, folks who say “I’m not attracted to black people, that’s just my preference” what they are really saying is “I don’t want to be with black people because I have been taught to think they are ugly, undesirable, and I know nothing about how diverse black people are”
Tl;dr preferences are not void of social power structures 🙂
Remember today when you see 100+ articles about how ‘civil’ and ‘noble’ H.W. Bush was that today is World AIDS Day. That 100,000 people, many LGBT+ individuals, especially gay men, died under his and Reagan’s watch. That he banned HIV+ people from entering the US, reduced research funding, and prevented educators from speaking about safe sex in favor of abstinence only education.
i still can’t believe sherlock declared his love for john in front of a room full people and no one said anything
me going to my coworker’s wedding for the free food and watching everybody cry at how beautiful the best man’s speech is when it was literally the dude saying how much he wishes he was marrying the groom instead:
when a sweaterboy says “no one has ever loved me the way i want to be loved” they mean that people love them (the sb) for the things the they do (acts of service etc) rather than who they are. when an absolute nightmare says “no one has ever loved me the way i want to be loved” they mean that people love them (the an) for who they are (larger than life) rather than what they do
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