About Black Dating Experiment
Black dating experiment is a blog run by two sisters, one black and one white. My name is Maria and I was brought up in a multiracial household here in London, UK. My mother and father are both white but since I was 5 I have lived with my father and his black wife, who I call my mother. My sister Claire is fully black and theoretically my step sister but we consider ourselves sisters having been raised together from a young age. We have 3 younger mixed siblings who are the product of our parents marriage.
My sister is beautiful, smart, cultured and eloquent. One day she joined up on a dating site. She expressed her disappointment at how very few black men were interested in dating her. The ones that she messaged first would very often ignore her and the ones that did express interest were not that interested, seemingly expecting her to ask them out on dates. She said that she got the feeling that a lot of black men held great disdain for black women. I found it hard to believe that what Claire was saying could be true so we set about (albeit in a deceptive manner) discovering the truth.
I set up a profile myself (as a chick called Lauren) making it very similar to her own profile. We are both the same age (30) so I left the age the same. The results were astounding. I started off messaging the men that had ignored her to see if they would bite, and bite they did. We then set about wooing them and then throwing stereotypes at them and cussing black women to see if any of them would stand up for black women or themselves. I was very disappointed to see that virtually all of them did not (JUST ONE DID so KUDOS to him). They were so desperate to bag a blonde beauty that they laughed off any insults and begged Lauren to meet, even when she would pull out her gold digger card. A few of the guys Claire even spoke to on the telephone pretending to be our blonde beauty. She continued in the same vein on the phone and still NONE said a thing. It is truly shocking.
See the results below and thank you for reading. Please note: Each post must be read from the BOTTOM - UP.
Sunday 18 December 2011
Africans Have HIV She Told Him
This was a Nigerian guy who was keen to meet our blonde beauty no matter what she said about not wanting to have a nappy headed baby girl or telling him that most Africans have HIV. SMH!
2 comments:
This is a great social experiment. One that is very beneficial to black girls and women. The one thing that is bothersome is the repeated, overused phrase of 'blond beauty.' It reinforces the myth that white women, especially blond ones, are the most beautiful, when in reality, beauty comes in all shades and racial backgrounds. The fact that black women are not mentioned as beautiful at all throughout this blog, yet the tiresome repeated phrasing of blond beauty, reinforces white supremacy at the expense of black women.
This blog is genius.
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