Reposted comment from another thread.
Has anyone else noticed that the black women who push for black lgbt representation, always seem to try to package it as homosexual black men/boys and force feed it to the black male collective, but always seem to forget the "L" part of that that acronym. Where are they to push for non-heterosexual black female protagonist in any major movie or TV production? Because as far as I can tell there are none. They always seem to want more homosexual black male representation, but never seem to push for black lesbian representation, yet at the same time are so gung ho & celebratory about having heterosexual black women represented in interracial relations?
For instance, did you know that BW/WM couples are more than twice as represented in movies as BM/WW couples despite being outnumbered more than 2:1 in real life? This comes straight from a website that complied all of the interracial couples in TV/movies up to 2015. If that's not a sign of the deliberate systematic propagandized attempt to celebrate and embellish white males as the ideal man then I don't know what is.
BW/WM in movies
Interracial Romance in the Movies
BM/WW in movies
Interracial Romance in the Movies
Another data set from 1967-2005
http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0013821/ramoutar_n.pdf
Can any black woman on this forum address these things for me:
It would seem to me that black women have a serious problem with being okay with white cis male patriarchal hegemony(so long as they're included in it via BW/WM IR relationships) and black lesbophobia. And it may just be a hunch, but I suspect they only push so hard for black MALE homosexuality, which is already over represented in terms of their mere +/-%2 population size in the entertainment media, simply for the sake of propagandizing the emasculation of black men.
EDIT: Another thing I don't understand is black women's eagerness to discredit our concerns about propagandized emasculation of black men and attacks on our masculinity, when they themselves are the FIRST to rail on about how black women are masculinized and defeminized in the media.
So, it's okay for them to want to protect & preserve their femininity, yet it's not okay for us to do the same with our masculinity?
EDIT: It seems I'm not the only one who notices the interracial disparity in film either.
Why is it that films and TV shows depict interracial relationships where it's a white male and other (black, Latina, Middle Eastern, Asian), but rarely the other way around?
Why You're Seeing Women of Color/White Men Pairings On TV
The Last Taboo: Will Smith, “Focus,” And Hollywood’s Interracial Couples Problem
Why aren't there as many black men with white women on TV as there are white men with black women?
Is it true that Hollywood is against black men being romantically involved with white women?
Has anyone else noticed that the black women who push for black lgbt representation, always seem to try to package it as homosexual black men/boys and force feed it to the black male collective, but always seem to forget the "L" part of that that acronym. Where are they to push for non-heterosexual black female protagonist in any major movie or TV production? Because as far as I can tell there are none. They always seem to want more homosexual black male representation, but never seem to push for black lesbian representation, yet at the same time are so gung ho & celebratory about having heterosexual black women represented in interracial relations?
For instance, did you know that BW/WM couples are more than twice as represented in movies as BM/WW couples despite being outnumbered more than 2:1 in real life? This comes straight from a website that complied all of the interracial couples in TV/movies up to 2015. If that's not a sign of the deliberate systematic propagandized attempt to celebrate and embellish white males as the ideal man then I don't know what is.
BW/WM in movies
Interracial Romance in the Movies
BM/WW in movies
Interracial Romance in the Movies
Another data set from 1967-2005
http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0013821/ramoutar_n.pdf
Can any black woman on this forum address these things for me:
1. Will you push for more of your sisters to be represented in lesbian relations in the media?
2. Will you push against the overrepresentation of black women in heterosexual interracial relationships in the media, which reinforces white male patriarchal hegemony for the reasons stated above?
3. Will you push for an increase in the underrepresented heterosexual black men in interracial relations in the media?
It would seem to me that black women have a serious problem with being okay with white cis male patriarchal hegemony(so long as they're included in it via BW/WM IR relationships) and black lesbophobia. And it may just be a hunch, but I suspect they only push so hard for black MALE homosexuality, which is already over represented in terms of their mere +/-%2 population size in the entertainment media, simply for the sake of propagandizing the emasculation of black men.
EDIT: Another thing I don't understand is black women's eagerness to discredit our concerns about propagandized emasculation of black men and attacks on our masculinity, when they themselves are the FIRST to rail on about how black women are masculinized and defeminized in the media.
So, it's okay for them to want to protect & preserve their femininity, yet it's not okay for us to do the same with our masculinity?
EDIT: It seems I'm not the only one who notices the interracial disparity in film either.
Why is it that films and TV shows depict interracial relationships where it's a white male and other (black, Latina, Middle Eastern, Asian), but rarely the other way around?
Why You're Seeing Women of Color/White Men Pairings On TV
The Last Taboo: Will Smith, “Focus,” And Hollywood’s Interracial Couples Problem
Why aren't there as many black men with white women on TV as there are white men with black women?
Is it true that Hollywood is against black men being romantically involved with white women?
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