Wonder if he’s gona talk about breh from “The Bachelor”
The real conversation is why some women only appreciate a caricature of a particular type of black man and shun black men who have something going for themselves.
I heard a few women curve dude because he was “corny” when in reality he’s not something they’re used to.
I think this comes down to dealing with Black women who are class straddlers or "85 Octanes", who want a man who has a
working-class/poor "edge". They often want a dude with an edge that also has the ability to navigate professional spaces, essentially a Black male straddler.
But the problem is most Black male straddlers will smash an "85 octane" but will marry or aspires to marry a multigenerational upper-middle-class Black woman--essentially engaging in
their own form of hypergamy. I've personally seen this happen with my Black male straddler friends who are attorneys, they come from places like Compton, West Philly, and Bed-Stuy, and while they'll smash an "85 octane" they either married up or aspire to marry up.
A lot of dudes' source of frustration on here is
not being able to differentiate between a Black woman who is a class straddler and one who is multigenerational upper-middle-class, a lot of that "he's corny" ish is nowhere near as prevalent in the latter. They give
somewhat neurotic and highly disagreeable men more leeway than female straddlers do.
Thus, dudes on this site would be better off
avoiding Black female straddlers altogether (at least in relation to marriage), as they are attempting to fight an uphill battle that has too many layers. And I'm from the South Bronx and as an attorney been around a wide range of Black folks, so I'm not trying to be on some classist/elitist tip. But you gotta play the odds.