[rekruler]

(07-21-2014 11:24 PM)Days of Broken Arrows Wrote:  

(07-21-2014 11:10 PM)rekruler Wrote:  

This is Minnesota, 95%+ of dudes engaging in crude, classless catcall game are gonna be black, hence a similar percentage of videos depicting crude, classless catcall game are gonna feature blacks. The only thing more annoying and insufferable than American white girls are people who throw down the fuking race card at every fart, sneeze, and hiccup. Cease and fuking desist with that shit, for the love of god.

IMO race is totally relevant here. It's not "playing the race card" to say that. She made it a point to do this in an urban black area. There's a class issue here too.

As many have noted, this wouldn't have happened as much or at all had she done it in a white area. If she'd done it in Utah or Kansas, she'd have gotten "Good day, ma'am" if that.

Whether she realizes it or not, she went to an area populated by minorities -- and poor ones at that -- in order to shame their culture.

Yes, that culture is crude in the ways men speak to women on the streets. But the other part of that, which she leaves out, is that this way of behaving is an outgrowth of the larger culture, in which people are quicker to hug, pat each other on the butt, flirt intensely, high-five, etc.

That extends to saying "You're pretty" to strangers. And when outsiders hear that, it sets off alarm bells. So this video is a clash of cultures more than it is a commentary on men vs. women.

I'm an Italian-American and we're about halfway between black culture and white culture when it comes to this stuff, so I think I have some perspective on it.

This woman had to go into a majority black city to make her point. She's the one that played the race card by doing this and putting it out. All of us are just observing what she did.

Is there any evidence or even reason to believe that she is recording these incidents while going out of her way to visit heavily minority areas? If so, then yea she is indeed race baiting. But I haven't seen any such evidence and I subscribe to the notion of "innocent until proven guilty," quaint I know.

Btw, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with catcalls or crude game, if I thought so I wouldn't be on this forum. I don't think the black dudes in the videos are doing anything wrong. All I'm saying is that if this woman dislikes a certain behavior-catcalls in this instance-she should not be expected to be cool with it for the sole reason that the majority of the people engaging in that behavior are "people of color."

To wit: I don't like getting smacked on the back of the head, no matter how harmlessly. You can believe that I will cry foul and make a stink about dudes going around smacking people in the back of the head. Even-gasp!- if 100% of the dudes doing it are black or brown or fuking orange for all I care. A behavior should be judged on its own merit, not based on which race is perpetrating it. If the woman hates catcalls, she still has the right to hate catcalls irrespective of the demographics of the "perps."