When washing your clothes, you should never mix your white and dark colors.great bear said:Whites are banned when washing them in hot water with dark coloured clothes.
They could all end up grey
When washing your clothes, you should never mix your white and dark colors.great bear said:Whites are banned when washing them in hot water with dark coloured clothes.
Back Burner said:Johnwayne you seem to now be making sense. No one here should believe a SP should be pressured to see someone she doesn't want to. But your above post makes a lot of sense and separates preference and bigotry. I know girls that only date black guys. But if Brad Pitt came knocking they would spread quicker then peanut butter. (Preference) I know guys who only white girls. But if Halle Berry came knocking, they would drink her bath water. (Preference). IMO this is what preference is. Saying someone only dates blonde's or redheads and comparing that to race is silly.
"The question that you have to ask yourself (honestly)... if the person who raped you was the same color as you, would you {avoid} every man of your color as a partner??? If the answer is no, then you are still a bit of a racist, justifiably"slowandeasy said:Sorry to hear about your bad experience.. that really sucks.... I admire your courage to even associate with black people in that case...
The fact that you might avoid black people is understandable, and it does not make you a bad person... but it does make you a bit of a racist... not the KKK, cross burning, back of the bus, kill people's babies type of racist... The question that you have to ask yourself (honestly)... if the person who raped you was the same color as you, would you every man of your color as a partner??? If the answer is no, then you are still a bit of a racist, justifiably
Just looking around town it appears to me that selecting a partner based on race is the *normal* thing for people to do....fuji said:In fact, although they are quite common now, inter-racial relationships are still a small minority versus same race relationships--including among blacks, natives, and all the other groups you might ordinarily think of as the victims of racism. Just looking around town it appears to me that selecting a partner based on race is the *normal* thing for people to do in that inter-racial relationships are still far less common than same-race relationships. People certainly are not matching up with some random race. So are all those people therefore racist? Maybe in some pedantic academic philosophical sense, but not in the sense that the word is ordinarily used!
Swingdancer said:....thatMLAM said:"The question that you have to ask yourself (honestly)... if the person who raped you was the same color as you, would you {avoid} every man of your color as a partner??? If the answer is no, then you are still a bit of a racist, justifiably"
.Thats ok.. think what you like. I am not racist just not attracted to dark colors. Maybe you would prefer not to have sex with fat woman or I know lots of guys that dont like short hair on a woman.
I happen to not find some features ect of some other races not attractive. I do not think of them differently as people or friends, But I dont want to have sex with them.
I cant believe this is an issue.
a) You have appearance preferences, as we all do...
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b) You didn't answer "Slowandeasy"s question.
I'm not saying what I did or what you did, just that the preponderance of evidence is that *most* people use race as a factor in selecting their partner. If we personalize this into what you and I did first off that's just anecdotal, and secondly it'll get someone's emotions going, because you're essentially inviting me to criticize your personal choices, and nobody takes kindly to that. So let's step back and just look at the people on the street--what I see is that the vast majority of them chose a partner from the same race.MLAM said:...these people selected their partner based on race? I didn't....did you?
No doubt that is one of the primary reasons why people screen based on race. As you just said yourself they may be more likely to be compatible with someone from their own race. So, an SP who screens based on race is increasing the odds that she'll have sessions with people she clicks with, no?it is VERY easy how thinking that this would be more likely the case with someone of the same race versus someone of a different race
This has never been the issue.Swingdancer said:I happen to not find some features ect of some other races not attractive. I do not think of them differently as people or friends, But I dont want to have sex with them.
I cant believe this is an issue.
"I'm not saying what I did or what you did, just that the preponderance of evidence is that *most* people use race as a factor in selecting their partner."fuji said:My wife happens not to be of the same race or cultural background than I am, but that is also not to say that I am equally attracted to women of all races. I am equally attracted to women with a similar _look_, but if you're honest, you'll admit that women of different races are more or less likely to have that look.
ruck said:This has never been the issue.
Indeed I think the problem with this thread is that people are having a hard time comprehending what some of us are trying to point out.
Hey MLAM, do you ever tired of doing this? I sometimes do.
...but since you asked, I guess I will now.Swingdancer said:How many different races have you slept with?
I've slept with black women from Jamaica, trinidad and Africa except one can argue that all black people originate from Africa. I have slept with venezuelan, brazilian, argentinan, mexican, chinese, japanese, korean, cambodian, philipina, vietnamese, Eastern Euro, Brits, canadians, east indian, pakistani, sri lankin, and probably a couple of other races that I have not even bothered to think about.Swingdancer said:How many different races have you slept with?
Someone throw icy cold water on Lancs.LancsLad said:I may not be in the race but I was in heat.
Well, what if you didn't want to have sex with a particular race?CHOOCHOO said:Unfortunatly I had the pleasure of being denied service base on race over the phone. WOW
Mellisa on the redzone does not see other races than white.
Do you think that is racist
Pretty damn close. In other cases using race as *any* factor in a decision, such as a hiring decision, would be deemed racist. No factor is ever "the" factor, any factor can be the deciding factor all other things being equal. In other words, if race is allowed as any factor it logically follows that it's acceptable for it to be given as the deciding reason not to sleep with a particular person."A factor" and "the deciding factor" are not the same thing
Once you accept that race is a good predicter of whether or not, on average, you'll be attracted to someone you've essentially accepted the case. If it's a good predicter, sight unseen, on whether someone fits your likes and dislikes, then it's a good way for people to screen sexual partners they aren't going to meet in advance."what I see is that the vast majority of them chose a partner from the same race."
Agreed - but that doesn't mean that they used race in making that decision.
I agree. And therefore, all other things being equal, using race to select sexual partners increases the probability that the person you hook up with will be compatible.It could be that they chose someone they were most compatible with - and it turns out that person was more likely to be of the same race.
Meeting a partner, especially online, is not like buying a car. You do not get a list of their features. You find those things out later. You generally know very little about someone when you first meet them online, or in the case of an SP, when you first hear their voice on the phone. Of the few bits of demographic information you have available race is a good predicter of whether you're going to get the features that you were looking for.I chose my car based on the features I wanted, both objective (a list) and subjective (things like *prestige").
On the internet or over the phone implementing that segmentation means, in part, setting up your profile or your process so that you screen based on factors such as race.So you are more likely to MEET people of the same race as yourself, especially in certain (relatively) closed cultures (also the ones that tend to discourage inter-racial coupling).
To YOU maybe. To me I enjoy the experience more when I'm with someone that I click with. Now I agree that "clicking" in an hour is different than "clicking" over a year. However it's all the more likely that the factors that race predicts will be the ones that matter for the hour long click...Coming together for an hour with a stated purpose is VASTLY different than choosing a "partner".
No, but if you hang around black women you'll see lots of big tits and lots of big asses. If you hang around asians they're few and far between. There are lots of busty asians and lots of slim black women, but as a *predictor* of what you are going to get, race is a pretty good one."If you like women with big boobs and big asses, there are some races where you'll tend to prefer the women from that race, and other races where you'll tend to be turned off."
I disagree here as well - though I get your point. I don't think big tits and asses are limited to any one race...
Sure, but when I said, jigger the odds, I specifically didn't mean she's be guaranteed to get what she wanted, or never exclude someone she might have liked. Just that a higher percentage of her sessions will be enjoyable for her.Second, an SP has no idea what the guy who comes through the door looks like before he gets there, so how can she "jigger the odds". Yes, if she screen for Blacks and Indians she will have some success for screening for darker skinned people - but she will also be screen some light skinned Black and Indians, and not screening some dark skinned Italians and Greeks.
For women a closer cultural connection might make the conversation smoother and that might make the experience more enjoyable for her. I tend to think women are a bit more about the psychological aspects. In that respect, race isn't the key, culture is, but self reported race is a reasonable predictor of culture. Again, no guarantee, nowhere near a guarantee, but it skews the odds.If she only sees white guys, the only thing she will know is that the guy is white - she will know NOTHING else about him (unless she asks of course) not hair color (or hair at all), not build...nothing. How can you determine in advance if you will find this person attractive or not?
In some academic, pedantic sense of the word it is racist, but not in the ordinary sense in which it is used. "Racism" carries a connotation of improper, unethical, and probably hateful, exclusionary behavior which disadvantages some group and prevents them from participating in society. Screening your sexual partners based on race does none of that.And I of course disagree. Screen for culture if that is important. Screen for appearance of that is important. Screen for race, if that is important. But don't pretend that when you make a decision based on race it isn't racist.
great bear said:Someone throw icy cold water on Lancs.
LancsLad said:That would give me the perfect excuse for my "modest" size. I can then say the water was cold.
Not that theres anything wrong with that.