mecegirl said:
I don't understand what you are arguing for. All people are equal, there is no default person. You know it, I know it. I'm just stating that fact for emphasis. So if, like that thread, the title is generic, then all types of people should be fair game to post.
Well what I originally got into this thread about was someone saying having a different post for Black women was inherently racist; I took issue with this for 2 reasons
1) If someone prefers black women, they're going to be scrolling past a lot of a generic "Hottest Chicks" thread to find them (as most posters will probably post white women).
2) I see no problem breaking pictures of women (or men, or cats, or dogs, or whatever else) into categories.
mecegirl said:
I think that while we all have our preferences there is something off about not wanting to even look at a woman who does not fit your definition of hot just because of her skin tone or nose shape. But that is just me.
By that logic, it's valid to post pretty much any woman in a hottest chicks thread, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a thread full of women generally agreed to be attracted.
mecegirl said:
They did not suggest making their own "Hottest White Woman" thread. They wanted to kick all other races out. And they had already made enough of a fuss to kick Asian women out. The creator of the "Hottest Asians" thread (which existed before I came to the site) only created it because he got complaints whenever he posted Asians in the "Hottest Chicks" thread.
So maybe they should've just had the original thread renamed "Hottest white chicks" -- which, if we're being honest, on the majority of English speaking internet forums *is* probably what the average male user is thinking about when they think "hottest chicks" in the sense of an ideal (given the majority of internet users that speak English are white men, and white men generally find the ideal to be white women).
Not that I disagree that these people loudly complaining about non-white women in an thread not marked as being for white women were probably at best arseholes and at worst racist arseholes.
mecegirl said:
So my situation wasn't a new one. I just stood my ground, and perhaps because I did stand up for myself, and because I am a non white woman, it worked. After all, its all well and good to talk about how you don't find (insert race here) attractive when you don't feel the need to explain why because a member of (insert race here) is in the vicinity.
Yeah it's generally not worth bothering doing that, all it does is induces whining, insults, or just wordy forum posts.
mecegirl said:
This isn't comparable to having a separate thread just for pierced women. Women are not born with piercings.
Actually, given it just comes down to preference, it is pretty much the same thing; some things are either attractive or not -- really doesn't matter if it's genetic or not (which is why, incidentally, you won't see many women with a shaved head in such topics either).
It's worth considering that a judgement of "not attractive to me" based on race (or piercing, or hair, or tattooing) isn't the same as a negative judgement about a person as a person based on the same.