No hang ups; people can like whatever they want. Just don’t immerse yourself in voluntary Whiteness and instead of being real about it, you point your finger at Black women as if it’s our fault we weren’t breaking our necks to convince you our culture is cool, too.

Thanks for giving us another great video, Miss Young.

I like this excuse better when it’s coming from white men about why they can’t write white women characters properly.

Thanks for your perspective. All of the plays I try to write include black women. I could have also told you about the play I’m writing about teenage black girls in the 1970s who decided to form a band, or the play about people waiting in line for a concert and one group which include a group of black women who…

Cool. But if you’re black perspective doesn’t include black women, than it’s just the perspective of a black man which makes it inherently incomplete, and therefore trash.

It’s all offhand jokes that “don’t matter” unless you’re in the group that’s being stereotyped and denigrated.

No. Most of these bros start offering their opinions before anyone even asks then why they’re dating a non-black person. Donald Glover started spouting that stuff about black women in his early standups and mixtapes way before anyone knew (much less cared) he had a white partner.

But then nerdy black girls aren’t blaming nerdy black guys not liking them for why they don’t date black people, period. That is the point. Everyone was probably hurt by someone who they liked that wasn’t reciprocated. Even the popular kids never necessarily got everyone they wanted b/c there is still another popular…

This argument is the “YOU HATE GUN VIOLENCE BUT WHAT ABOUT CHICAGO!” of arguments.

Woooowww, are you in your feelings about this one.

eh. Here’s the thing. The same sort of shit happened when I was a kid. I was different, quiet, and so on. Other nerdy black women also didn’t get dates, regardless of the popularity of the people at school. We also were not always articulate with such things. But like... you move on and realize that HS is weird…

Elliott Rodger? That you? Or are you just a regular old inflammatory troll?

What is more bizarre is that white dudes who the white girls weren’t checking for in high school bc they were nerds don’t decide to forego white girls and date black women as adults. So miss me with this rationalization. They probably wanted the white girls then and still want them now.

Well - and not only that, but it’s not like they did any checking around for the GIRL nerds of color who liked the Cranberries. Or the PMG (even though no less than Morpheus himself has been spotted at their concerts). Tennis. Any sport that was non-NFL or NBA. Or, heaven forbid, Beethoven (though if…

I just plain don’t believe it. It’s a cop out. If a dude says, ‘they don’t like me’, it shuts down the conversation without determining if that person ever had a true attraction to Black women and/or ever truly attempted to connect with us. Similar interests/physical proximity is gigantic in how high schoolers get…

I don’t get the whole “well she didn’t like me” whining. If she doesn’t then find someone who does dumbass. Women aren’t things to own, they aren’t property. You’re not entitled to them. If she doesn’t like you, well guess what, half of the population is female. If you’re a nerd, you should know about math and…

Is this a chicken and egg situation? I have met plenty of dudes who say they hang out with and date White people because they, too,“like” stuff that codes White. But they never seem to realize they like that stuff *because* it affords them access to Whiteness. Can you genuinely love the Cranberries? Sure. Can you…

“black female nerds shared some of their own. Conclusion: Their male counterparts did not want to date them.”

...yet if anyone so much as touches a Roseanne DVD, you’ll clutch your pearls so hard they break.

“Everyone else has to show solidarity, but I’m not standing with black women”. Ok.