Today, a much less religious subject.
I have noticed a phenomenon. A cultural phenomenon. By the way I am white. That'll become important momentarily... I have been exposed to few very mixed-race situations growing up. I've always been around Mexicans, but it's only lately that I've been informed that they aren't white. Really, this whole racial identification thing is getting beyond what I can keep track of. It was brought to my attention that I can now call myself Euro-American. When I mentioned that I'm also American Indian the ever-politically correct person labeled me American Indian Euro American, redundant? Well why stop there? There are some other fairly distinguishing qualities about me that people might want to base their opinions on me with, better give'em all the info "Functioning Mentally Ill Above Average IQ American Indian Euro American." How's that? Bottom line just tell me what the classifications are when we get them figured out, ok, I do want everyone to get their fair share of words.
Seriously though, we got off track.
My point was that now that I'm in college in a major metropolitan area (those in NYC , LA and Chicago are all laughing right now that I called Denver a major metropolitan area, have your fun) I'm in classrooms with a far more diverse group than before, which I find to be THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!! For many academic an intellectual reasons I find diverse classrooms to be better learning environments. But on a totally selfish shallow level it sometimes means I'm getting checked out more. Black guys seem to like my shape a LOT more than white guys do. On any given tuesday I can walk into a certain classroom of mine where a gorgeous 6'3" wide-smiled, well-dressed man gives me a wink and a good hard look over. His equally attractive white counterpart is busy drooling over the chick who looks like she hasn't eaten in three months. Suddenly his attractiveness skids to a halt. Then Hottie McHottie checks out the girl behind me, a short well-formed Indian girl. And I feel so great, because she looks totally different than me, and yet we both receive that glance.
Are white guys just afraid of other beauty rather than their stick thin white version? I don't get it. But I think there are plenty of girls like me out there who are getting fairly pissed off.
I have noticed a phenomenon. A cultural phenomenon. By the way I am white. That'll become important momentarily... I have been exposed to few very mixed-race situations growing up. I've always been around Mexicans, but it's only lately that I've been informed that they aren't white. Really, this whole racial identification thing is getting beyond what I can keep track of. It was brought to my attention that I can now call myself Euro-American. When I mentioned that I'm also American Indian the ever-politically correct person labeled me American Indian Euro American, redundant? Well why stop there? There are some other fairly distinguishing qualities about me that people might want to base their opinions on me with, better give'em all the info "Functioning Mentally Ill Above Average IQ American Indian Euro American." How's that? Bottom line just tell me what the classifications are when we get them figured out, ok, I do want everyone to get their fair share of words.
Seriously though, we got off track.
My point was that now that I'm in college in a major metropolitan area (those in NYC , LA and Chicago are all laughing right now that I called Denver a major metropolitan area, have your fun) I'm in classrooms with a far more diverse group than before, which I find to be THE BEST THING EVER!!!!!! For many academic an intellectual reasons I find diverse classrooms to be better learning environments. But on a totally selfish shallow level it sometimes means I'm getting checked out more. Black guys seem to like my shape a LOT more than white guys do. On any given tuesday I can walk into a certain classroom of mine where a gorgeous 6'3" wide-smiled, well-dressed man gives me a wink and a good hard look over. His equally attractive white counterpart is busy drooling over the chick who looks like she hasn't eaten in three months. Suddenly his attractiveness skids to a halt. Then Hottie McHottie checks out the girl behind me, a short well-formed Indian girl. And I feel so great, because she looks totally different than me, and yet we both receive that glance.
Are white guys just afraid of other beauty rather than their stick thin white version? I don't get it. But I think there are plenty of girls like me out there who are getting fairly pissed off.
1 Comments:
I think its a big facade - that blokes look at stick thin girls but in the real world nothing beats shape and curves. In my experience Black American guys look at anything with a pulse...a sweeping statement I know - but its just what I noticed.
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