perilous-realms ha contestado a tu publicación: Is is problematic
I think it’s problematic. and you can always change the nature of tumblr by posting pictures of non-white men you find attractive. sometimes i post bollywood stars
True. But it’s so much work to find pictures of men and post them then just click the reblog post. Basically I’m lazy. I mean, 4/5s of my posts aren’t even mine. But maybe I should start do that. Along with that pile of homework. over there.
perilous-realms ha contestado a tu publicación: Is is problematic
in response to pleasedonttouchthat: Don’t just fop everything off on biology. society plays a huge role in determining who we are and who we fuck. as thinking, rational creatures we owe it to ourselves to think about why we behave the way we do
I actually don’t think he referenced a biological imperative at all. His response could have included societal ones too. That said, I don’t disagree with either of you.
I think one can choose not to blame oneself for preferring one race over another (since, one is never outside of discourse).
More importantly is the teasing out of the definition of “preferring”: I don’t think I actually prefer a specific race as much as I prefer some random collection of physical features. And if we accept that race is a social construction, then it’s possible to argue (and, in my case I tend to believe it true), that I prefer certain aesthetics, regardless of skin colour (which is what I assume we’re taking to be a marker for race, since, whatever this socially constructed ‘race’ is can’t otherwise be perceived). [Inherent in this paragraph, I think, is my personal assumption that we understand the social construction of race]
Saying this, however, doesn’t preclude me from questioning why I do prefer these sets of physical features and if they have somehow been motivated by a historical exposure to definitions of race prior to the scientific understanding that race is very much a spectrum. That is, I blame the media—more specifically, its selection and use of specific individuals to represent specific features of a particular group (not race) of people.
But there’s so much more to this.
