THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

ON THE GAME | 2007-03-25

I was astounded by a poll which showed that 97% of white women prefer white men. I would have thought that, in speaking to a stranger, at least 70% of white women, who spend a major portion of their time in the beauty shop and a major portion of their money on cosmetics, would have said what they always say: Looks are not important.

Some time back a poll showed that the overwhelming majority of women wanted pretty children but did not care what their husbands looked like. As far as I can tell, it is required that one say that Hitler was the only person in history who thought children might care what THEY looked like.

All that is supposed to matter to the next generation is not that they look like a bunch of the mulattoes and browns who go crazy over blonds in Brazil. It's fine with OJ Simpson's daughter that she looks like the type of woman her father wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole as long as Poppa was IN LOVE at the time that that guy in a dress waved his arms over the mixed couple.

All this is as sane as a privet bush in your ear, so I was astounded when 97% of white women actually stated their preference for white men. In an insane world, sanity sounds WEIRD.

But half of the white women did say they would marry a nonwhite if the nonwhite made a LOT more money. The pollster even worked out the trade-off. If he has a million a year, hubby can be a chimpanzee.

Which reminds me of an exchange Bernard Shaw was supposed to have had at a party. A woman was talking abut the glories of being rich, so he said, "So you would do anything for a million pounds, even go to bed with me?"

She replied that of course she would.

Shaw then said, "Will you got o be with me at the going rate on the street, say, ten shillings?"

The woman was shocked, "What do you think I am, a prostitute!?"

Shaw replied, "We've already established what you are. We are now negotiating the price."

COMMENTS (4)

#1 shari | 2007-03-25 12:15

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There is a proverb, which I can't find right now, but it says "as a jewel in a pig's snout, so is a beautiful woman without discretion." Ha! And I think that old Bernard Shaw was an atheist too.

#2 Anonymous | 2007-03-25 16:57

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Benny Hill used to use the "We've already established what you are. We are now negotiating the price." routine as well.

#3 Simmons | 2007-03-25 20:03

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Men's purpose on Earth is to save the species from Feminine Anarchy. I've written before about some morning talk show that had the women on who had at least 20 children by that same anonymous sperm donor. They all wanted his donation because of his "Germanic" looks. What white women want is to be thought of as "nice" and for white men to act like men.

#4 Peter | 2007-03-26 00:05

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While this is an interesting post, I don't think it has a solid point. You seem to dislike it when people marry for love and when people marry for money. You say they should marry solely for aesthetics. But aesthetics is something you get used to -- that's why it's discussed as only as a mere preference. You get used to what your partner looks like -- this is why ugly people look less ugly as you become more familiar with them. The parents don't seem to care what their children look like since they are acquainted with them from birth. And I have never any non-white say, "I wish I were white."

Just for fun, I searched Google: 898 results for "I wish I were white" -- 253 or so results for "I wish I were black" and 248 for Asian to put it in context.

If you grow up looking a certain way, you cannot imagine looking differently, nor would you seriously want to, unless you were a Semite in the Third Reich.

P.S. Are the browns in Brazil really going crazy over the blonds in Brazil because they are blond or because they look "exotic"? (Like the inverse of what we think of exotic here).

--Al Parker