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Thursday, October 29, 2009

And, You Meant To Say That??

Here are some things that men have said to me that I don’t think any woman wants to hear. I know for sure I don’t want to hear any of these AGAIN because I have heard all of them before.

"You gotta nice ass.” This might be okay if we were going out for a while and I asked how a pair of pants looked on me and even then it’s a MAYBE. But for that to be some random dude’s opening line while both of us are pumping gas at the gas station, it’s not working. Not even a little bit.

“You know, I don’t normally date black girls.” This has been said to me by several black men and I guess it was supposed to make me feel special. It was supposed to make me feel honored that they stepped down off of White Girl Mount Olympus to deal with me. Well damn. I can sleep at night now. WTF? The variation of this is “I don’t normally date dark-skinned sistas.” Whatever! Any man who said that to me wasn’t dating this dark-skinned black sista either.

"Oh, you’re a smart one.” I got this when I was younger and used to occasionally go to the club. It was usually uttered by some thuggish clown who was attracted to the booty but turned off by my command of the English language. In response to that statement, I would say, “Yes, I am.” And then he’d thankfully be off to the next big booty chick.

“I like full-figured women.” Great. But you know what? I don’t like being full-figured. In fact, I think I’m fat and the fact that you like that I’m fat doesn’t make me feel any better. It just makes me feel fatter. Sure this might be my issue, but still “Fuck you, very much!”

“I think you are very pretty in your own way.” Really? And what way is that? In a freakishly handsome, so-ugly-only-a-mother-could-love sort of way? What the hell does that mean? It ranks right up there with other backhanded condescending compliments like “You’re smart for a jock,” or “You’re such a well-spoken black person.” Huh? Either give a compliment or don’t but quit straddling the fence.

Labels: Men, Rant

posted by SDC @ 5:22 PM

1 Comments:

At October 30, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Diva's Thoughts said…

OK this has me cracking up.