Ah yes, calling attention to a typo. Last bastion of those who really don't have anything else to say.

Andrew Hacker? Already read it. Typical white apologist dribble. Am I supposed to listen to him on the basis of his whiteness? Hack, indeed :rolleyes:

That's the beauty of being able to pass for either when the mood strikes. And there are no doubt still books that could be written on what you don't know as a menopausal shrew.

Paula Deen, ya'llllllllllll:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/di...anted=all&_r=0

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...rther-crumbles

And since I can't think of another place to announce this on GC, the documentary "Dark Girls" is re-airing on OWN at 10:00pm EST. I am about to watch it in 15 minutes. These are not sob stories, these are true stories.

http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3478913.html

I am going to give you a very good piece of advice. I would strongly suggest you dial back the insults - as a pnm who has already posted identifying information on this site you really don't want to run the risk of insulting long-time GreekChatters who 1.) have mad detective skills and 2.) have contacts like you wouldn't believe. You would not be the first pnm to think she was unidentifiable and "bulletproof" to be left wondering why her recruitment came to a crashing halt on the day she was dropped by all the chapters.

No. The last bastion of those who don't really have anything to say is actually name-calling. You know, like

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Originally Posted by UVA17 (Post 2222571) Oh Phil, Phil, Phil. You are such a closed-minded dolt.

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Originally Posted by UVA17 (Post 2222600) And there are no doubt still books that could be written on what you don't know as a menopausal shrew.

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Not to mention the very real possibility that sorority members from the school she'll be attending could well be reading this thread and forming opinions based on the insults.

How did I miss the part about pornography in the kitchen? :confused: What was THAT about?

SN: I've been meaning to see "Dark Girls" for awhile now. I tried to see it a showing at a conference but it was sold out both nights. However, I could do without the "Darker is better" and "I hope my children are dark like pharaohs and queens because you can't look like royalty being light as hell" comments. Um we all descended from the same royalty so back up off my lite brite. But that's for another thread entirely.

Have you read Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential"?!

It is a really good, but tremendously sad, documentary. It makes me think of things from my childhood and things from my adulthood.

The documentary is not about "darker is better" (but of course humans tend to operate on extremes and have a difficult time balancing. Of course, people will think it makes sense to combat "black is ugly" with "black is beautiful" and eventually "black is the ONLY beautiful thing."). The documentary is about why most African-Americans have a social-psychological struggle with this. One girl said she used to come home and wash her skin to get the "black off." She used to hate her father because she has his skin complexion. A woman said she used to beg her mother to put bleach in the bath tub so she could whiten her skin everyday. Unfortunately, there are people around the world who bleach their skin, including Reggae artist Vybz Kartel and Sammy Sosa.

This documentary also speaks to why various races, ethnicities, and cultures around the world have struggled with issues of skin complexion, hair texture, and body features. Some European ethnicities have also struggled with this.

ETA: StealthMode, they just showed the part of the documentary in which two Black men said they preferred darker Black women. One man said he wants his children to be darker like pharoahs and queens. Then he said "I'm being real ignorant right now" so he knew he was talking crazy. LOL.


Random: I love Bourdain's CNN show.

A FB friend "shared" an Asian Interpretation meme the other day. I wouldn't be surprised to see that from an 11 year old middle schooler. I was surprised to see it from a 33 year old woman. I just commented "Really?" She replied "Lighten up! It's a joke." SMDH.

Are they getting published? I want to buy an autographed copy, please. :)

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

ETA: Kitchen porn? Oh.

Oh I don't think she really has to worry about this meanness not being shared already. It's very nice when PNMs show people who they really are before recruitment!

Not at all but still saddened.

You are on a roll.

I'm just wondering if she's attempting to insult members of every sorority on UVA's campus? She's gotten KD and Theta down...14 more to go! She can see what it's like to "tow" that line when recruitment comes round.

I do want to see it because it is a subject that I want to incorporate into my research. It's incredibly intriguing and incredibly heartbreaking.
Unfortunately, a young man I once dated had a similar complex. His father (who abandoned him) was light skinned with gray eyes. He simultaneously was attracted to light skin (both in the women he dated and wishing he had it himself) and made borderline insulting comments about it, too. Of course, his resentment against light-skin had little to do with the skin and signified a deeper issue with his dad, but he came to associate dark skin with not being worth anything or worth keeping around. :( This was the same young man who said one of the things he loved best about me was my "good hair." :rolleyes: I'm almost laughing remembering the look on his face. I'm sure he was expecting me to say "Thank you" rather than the...er....passionate...reaction I had.


So thaaaaaat's where the FB status originated.