there’s a difference between finding something attractive and having a fetish.. i find men with beards more attractive but it’s obviously not a fetish. am i discriminating against men without beards? is this fetishisation of beards?? make it make sense, we all have preferences. people can prefer lighter/darker skin tones, hair colours or literally anything without it being a fetish. just because you find something attractive doesn’t mean you’re ‘making someone the object of sexual desire based on that one aspect of their identity’
using the term “a fetish” is very different to fetishisation esp racial fetishisation and actually quite reductive of this issue and unhelpful in this conv. i beg you spend just 5 minutes reading about this just to broaden your understanding. our good sis
@DietGossip has made some stunning recommendations and there are of course the voices of several Black people/Ppl of color in this thread who are sharing experiences which could aid your learning
the fetishisation of Black people men explicitly in this context goes way beyond “just preferring people with brown skin” and is as always related to centuries of enslavement oppression discrimination of the Black body
there’s a difference between finding something attractive and having a fetish.. i find men with beards more attractive but it’s obviously not a fetish. am i discriminating against men without beards? is this fetishisation of beards?? make it make sense, we all have preferences. people can prefer lighter/darker skin tones, hair colours or literally anything without it being a fetish. just because you find something attractive doesn’t mean you’re ‘making someone the object of sexual desire based on that one aspect of their identity’
using the term “a fetish” is very different to fetishisation esp racial fetishisation and actually quite reductive of this issue and unhelpful in this conv. i beg you spend just 5 minutes reading about this just to broaden your understanding. our good sis
@DietGossip has made some stunning recommendations and there are of course the voices of several Black people/Ppl of color in this thread we are sharing experiences which could aid your learning
the fetishisation of Black people men explicitly in this context goes way beyond “just preferring people with brown skin” and is as always related to centuries of enslavement oppression discrimination of the Black body