ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
I was watching Judge Mathis the other day (yeah, I know) and there was a case that I found to be interesting and I thought I would bring it up in this thread, as it pertains to what we are talking about.
The plantiff, who was a racist white woman, was suing the defendant because she had tried to push her in front of a moving train. The defendant, a white woman, was dating a black man. The plantiff, defendant and her boyfriend had all been at a train stop at the time of this event. To save all the meaningless details, the plantiff had called the defendants boyfriend a ******, right to his face. The defendant started to fight with the plantiff and that is how they ended up in court.
Anyway, during the court session, the defendant handed Judge Mathis a copy of the police report that was filed that day. The plantiff had stated on the police report that the defendant "didn't like her because her boyfriend is black".
Judge Mathis acknowledged this by asking the plantiff what the boyfriend's skin color had anything to do with the defendant not liking her. He then said, and I quote, "Just because she (the defendant) and her boyfriend are an in INTERRACIAL relationship, it doesn't give you the right to say those things (referring to her racist slurs)".
Judge Mathis, a black man, used the term interracial. He didn't use it in a negative way and he didn't use it with any racist connotation. No one in the court room, including the white defendant and her black boyfriend, was upset by the use of the word.
I'm bringing this up because I think it perfectly illustrates that everyone views the word differently. Some people, like Judge Mathis, view it as a descriptive word. Some people view it as a racist label. Who is right? Who is wrong? Neither. To each their own.
I can see how someone could look at the word interracial to be a racist label, I just don't believe that it is.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interracial
Personally, I think that certain words/phrases/labels get so scrutinized that people start to over analyze their meaning and end up getting offended over nothing. There are a lot of people who want to be mad about something, so they look for something to get mad about. It's just like when certain women get pissy because you say "mailMAN" or "repairMAN" instead of "mailPERSON" or "repairPERSON". It's honestly getting ridiculous.
My job, as a human being, isn't to cater to everyone's individual feelings. That is a fucking impossible task to accomplish. I would have to spend the rest of my life walking around on eggshells just so I wouldn't offend somebody. Fuck that.
No matter what phrase or term is used to describe an interracial couple (or porn scene, as this thread pertains to), there is always going to be people that aren't happy with it.
I just really don't understand why we (as a society) are expected to use/avoid certain words just to cater to everyone elses feelings. Are we that *****ish of a society now, where we all get offended over everything? Pretty soon, I'm not going to be able to say **** to anybody without them calling me a racist, sexist or homophobe.
The plantiff, who was a racist white woman, was suing the defendant because she had tried to push her in front of a moving train. The defendant, a white woman, was dating a black man. The plantiff, defendant and her boyfriend had all been at a train stop at the time of this event. To save all the meaningless details, the plantiff had called the defendants boyfriend a ******, right to his face. The defendant started to fight with the plantiff and that is how they ended up in court.
Anyway, during the court session, the defendant handed Judge Mathis a copy of the police report that was filed that day. The plantiff had stated on the police report that the defendant "didn't like her because her boyfriend is black".
Judge Mathis acknowledged this by asking the plantiff what the boyfriend's skin color had anything to do with the defendant not liking her. He then said, and I quote, "Just because she (the defendant) and her boyfriend are an in INTERRACIAL relationship, it doesn't give you the right to say those things (referring to her racist slurs)".
Judge Mathis, a black man, used the term interracial. He didn't use it in a negative way and he didn't use it with any racist connotation. No one in the court room, including the white defendant and her black boyfriend, was upset by the use of the word.
I'm bringing this up because I think it perfectly illustrates that everyone views the word differently. Some people, like Judge Mathis, view it as a descriptive word. Some people view it as a racist label. Who is right? Who is wrong? Neither. To each their own.
The fact that you can’t understand how the term “interracial” could be racist in and of itself says otherwise.
I can see how someone could look at the word interracial to be a racist label, I just don't believe that it is.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/interracial
Personally, I think that certain words/phrases/labels get so scrutinized that people start to over analyze their meaning and end up getting offended over nothing. There are a lot of people who want to be mad about something, so they look for something to get mad about. It's just like when certain women get pissy because you say "mailMAN" or "repairMAN" instead of "mailPERSON" or "repairPERSON". It's honestly getting ridiculous.
My job, as a human being, isn't to cater to everyone's individual feelings. That is a fucking impossible task to accomplish. I would have to spend the rest of my life walking around on eggshells just so I wouldn't offend somebody. Fuck that.
No matter what phrase or term is used to describe an interracial couple (or porn scene, as this thread pertains to), there is always going to be people that aren't happy with it.
I just really don't understand why we (as a society) are expected to use/avoid certain words just to cater to everyone elses feelings. Are we that *****ish of a society now, where we all get offended over everything? Pretty soon, I'm not going to be able to say **** to anybody without them calling me a racist, sexist or homophobe.