This is not a debate or a discussion. There is no room for wiggling/worming around the cold, hard fact(s). Racist policies and racist institutions prop up racist individuals and advance systemic racism. It's beyond disgusting. Do better, Fetlife! (This includes not attempting to censor or silence the voices of dissenters, not excluding people of colour from the team of caretakers, nuking the hundreds of groups that encourage, enable and/or shelter bigots and banning the participants from accessing your site!)
Race fetishes cannot be expressed without blatantly disrespecting the people being fetishized. The people with them almost inevitably use racial slurs casually.
In case anyone needs to read this: A large number of people, especially those with racially-charged fetishes (including some Black men), think that it's no harm done or even flattering to Black individuals. It's not at all. The historic fetishisation of enslaved or otherwise oppressed Black people and the myths surrounding Black people's bodies, libidos and sexual desires (even to this day) affect(s) people and puts them in uncomfortable or even dangerous situations (not to mention other fetishised BIPOCs and all the BIPOCs affected by this throughout history). Flipping hell; Black men have been lynched because of the perpetuation of this! Black singers have been murdered for protesting it.
This shit needs to stop, like a decade ago!
Below: Kat Blaque on race play and her being fetishized. I'm sure she's not the only person with a horror story published online.
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"They [Black men's penises] are typically larger, hence their superiority."
Reading that makes me (and others) want to scream.
- You are putting down a large group of Black men (and other men) who have average or even smaller penises.
- Stop putting value on a man by the size of his penis, or even if he can get an erection. Men are not superior to other men because of a body part.
- If you're all about BBC because of the size only, why aren't you all over BWC or any other race? Here's why, whether you admit it or not: You are perpetuating racism by making Black men (and women) into something exotic, wild, or taboo. You don't see them as individual humans.
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