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Thumper
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Username: Thumper
Post Number: 19
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 09:21 am: | 
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Hello All,
Now, I done already let you all know that this post is for Yukio and Cynique, mainly because I know I can discuss this with them, just for discussion sake and not worry about them taking it personally. If you can discuss this topic without taking it personally, please join in.
While reading The Big Mango, something fell into place. See, two black female characters are talking about the state of black womanhood. And one of the women said that what is wrong with the upward mobile black femal professional today is that she has traded places with the white woman, and vise versa. For years white women were the ones with the image of chastity and innocence, and today's black professional woman wants to have that image, and now it's tyhe white women who are proudly wearing the sexy, I love sex image. Which is why so many black men are going with white women because white women don't have a problem letting men know that they like to...have sex. And that the black professional women chooses not to recognize the power of the booty. Is there some truth in this? Could this explain the real roots of the U go girl and Tornleisha Tale books? It's something to think about. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 12:17 pm: |
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Thumper:
Well, i'll have disagree with Big Mango's characterization of today's professional women. If anything, black women have tried to be MORE virtuous than white women. One because their religion and class, and two because inorder for them to prosper they had to be representatives of the race.
With that said, there has always been a tension within the black community about black women's sexuality. And i think presently, professional women are more apt to behave like the socalled professional white man...have my cake and eat it too!
In literature we can just look at toni morrison's literature for this conflict and even their eyes were watching god |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 27
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 12:18 pm: |
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sorry, thumper
the first graph pertains to women in the past; while the second women in the present! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 35
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 09:43 pm: |
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What can I say, Thumper. Poor black women. They're damned if they do, and dammed if they don't! Often the type of black women who end up in American boardrooms are relatively new to the corporate game and probably made it there because they were serious, hardworking, tight asses, not the kind who are sexually manipulative. Such women can also be control freaks and the possibility exists that by sleeping with her boss to get ahead, a woman can end up being obligated to him. And you can't discount that with all they've gone through to rise above negative images, these black woman have developed pride and no longer want to be thought of as sex objects. But poor ol sistas just can't win. Ironically, by becoming enslaved to their prudishness, they have traded places with inhibited white woman and liberated these newly-arrived skanks to go out and seduce ol gullible black men. Uh,uh,uh. |
Yukio
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Username: Yukio
Post Number: 29
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 - 01:15 am: |
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hmmmmm....these professional and in the past educators, and in the further past, club woman have always been tight assed!
Check:
Stephanie J. Shaw, What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional WOmen Workers during the Jim Crow Era....there is continuity with these women in the past and the women your book describes. |
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