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Not to make fun of you at all. But just reading your post made me think of that movie The Brothers with Bill Bellamy, Shemar Moore, D.L. Hughley and Morris Chestnut. And Bill's character's mom was like Asian women are just white women that don't speak English, Hispanic women are white women with a taco, etc. I know it's far deeper than that culturally. But I still crack up to this day that to some people if you aren't on the darker/blacker side of the spectrum at times, then you just a white somebody with an "add-on" so to speak. Which is kind of sad as we are all sooo much more than that.
I haven't seen the movie, but yes I see that's exactly what I just did. Thanks for calling me out on that.
>Assail I thought was Arab?
It's funny, there's this thing I notice (white) romance authors tend to do— they always describe white heroes' skin as "tan," "golden," etc. Sometimes even "brown." It can get kind of confusing when you know they mean for the character to to be white, but they're described (repeatedly!) with those words. I take advantage of it whenever possible! :D
It's the converse of the tendency to make heroines super pale unto translucent. I think it's a matter of: tan=masculine/strong, pale=feminine/delicate. Which. :/
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It's funny, there's this thing I notice (white) romance authors tend to do— they always describe white heroes' skin as "tan," "golden," etc. Sometimes even "brown." It can get kind of confusing when you know they mean for the character to to be white, but they're described (repeatedly!) with those words. I take advantage of it whenever possible! :D
It's the converse of the tendency to make heroines super pale unto translucent. I think it's a matter of: tan=masculine/strong, pale=feminine/delicate. Which. :/