depending on the POV.... it was racist before I even posted. Its Ok to not like a person,or not be attracted, that thread went to dogging Serena badly with racially charged adjectives.

Calling a sista "gross"...or "shaved yeti" and other VERY disrespectful shit was just going to a different level. I'm sure you didn't see it that way though... many forget black people read what you post here. Ya know? Think of orgers that look like Serena that would take offense to what was said, ( like Sammi, Sweet, shit even Ivy). It was just too raw. Shit if I said stuff like in reference to a white woman's body hell, I would expect somemone to call me on that too.

So I agree with all you're saying, but people do say this kinda mean shit about white celebs on here all the damn time as well.

Paris Hilton, anyone?

Shit seems to go both ways on here.

It sure does... but when its a black women getting dogged by only white orgers, it makes those orgers look bad.

Calling Serena a skank/ugly is different than saying her ass is gross because its out of proportion and she looks like a wookie of some sort.

That's the same as calling Paris "cracker this-and that" by only black orgers...it just looked bad.
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Saying someone looks like a yeti is a racist thing? I had no idea. I jokingly call myself that all the time.

When white folks refer to a black person as an animal/non-human thing, yes.

when a person jokes about themself is an entirely different matter.

Different people have different sensitivities, its never OK to be offensive to others just because you think it'll get you a laugh.

Is it also racist when non-whites compare a white person to an animal/non human thing?

let me bring y'all back before it gets ugly... this child is making me more hungry everytime i look at her

Maybe... not nearly as hurtful most likely because of its an ugly historical thing to compare blacks with animals, because whites were seen as superior. Black people were often thought of as ape-like, and look at all the lovely references to OBAMA and Curious George.

Many white Americans, in this day and age, get that. So its frowned upon in my neck of the woods. People only say those sorts of things to be hurtful.

what thread am i in? i coulda sworn it said "super skinny model".

Maybe... not nearly as hurtful most likely because of its an ugly historical thing to compare blacks with animals, because whites were seen as superior. Black people were often thought of as ape-like, and look at all the lovely references to OBAMA and Curious George.

Many white Americans, in this day and age, get that. So its frowned upon in my neck of the woods. People only say those sorts of things to be hurtful.

what thread am i in? i coulda sworn it said "super skinny model".

Its all related, because of hurtful comments made about women in general. Erin and I are on a tangent, but it still speaks to the issue of others who can't relate to a situation, to become more tactful when speaking of others.

i don't think she meant it with racist overtones when she said it boo. you can most definitely tell when b$tches are trying to come for you. i didnt get that from her.

& just a side note not everybody is aware of how far back and how deeply regretably ugly and rampant racism was back in the day.

it's not their fault for not knowing

Its all related, because of hurtful comments made about women in general. Erin and I are on a tangent, but it still speaks to the issue of others who can't relate to a situation, to become more tactful when speaking of others.

yes boo but you can't take all that out on somebody who wasnt even going there because other folks have made racist comments before her

my friend calls herself a brown dog all the time and she's indian and that's just a funny thing between us. i guess it's something from back in her home town.

you gotta seperate the two boo. it's too hard on the heart not too!

what thread am i in? i coulda sworn it said "super skinny model".

The modelling world is changing I think..... I've noticed they don't use skinny models.

i don't think she meant it with racist overtones when she said it boo. you can most definitely tell when b$tches are trying to come for you. i didnt get that from her.

& just a side note not everybody is aware of how far back and how deeply regretably ugly and rampant racism was back in the day.

it's not their fault for not knowing

Its all related, because of hurtful comments made about women in general. Erin and I are on a tangent, but it still speaks to the issue of others who can't relate to a situation, to become more tactful when speaking of others.

I'm not American, and I know. I just don't know about all the terms and how 'this apparently really means this' or 'that apparently really means that' kinda stuff and I suspect others don't as well and say things that are taken as racist when really they didn't mean anything racist by saying it.

Oh no... this was about calling Serena (a black woman gross), just like its wrong to call Stephanie "gross" because of her thinnes.
Its insensitive and wrong to speak of women so poorly, just like an insensitive remark about a naturally big-bootayed woman... a previous thread is also being discussed.

thank you for pointing that out Eringirl

PL, folks outside the USA DO NOT come from this incredibly hateful society we do here. when they speak they are NOT using words in the same context we do alot of the times.

these are OUR USA issues. not theirs child.

i forgot this was one of those worldly sites!

where you art miss erin if you don't mind me asking?