Discussion Main / BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Not Tropeworthy, started by AlleyOop on Jun 26th 2017 at 12:43:31 AM

I'm so sorry, I'm about to go into one of my oversensitive rant modes again, and I do apologize in advance... but, I think the title of this trope should perhaps be changed. Like the newly changed Asian Gal with White Guy Drama (used to be called "Love You Long Time"), I think the title is racially insensitive for this reason. Use of the word "On". When I think of a something-on-something interaction, I think of violence! (I.e. "black on black crime"). For me, this draws the stereotypical Unfortunate Implications about black women: overly aggressive, loud, animalistic, throwing themselves at white men like they're going out of style. And also, the title indicates that it's black women going after white men, not the other way around. Whereas in the Black men/white women article, it indicates that it's black men going after white women. This makes it seem like the black person, male or female, is always chasing after the white person. More Unfortunate Implications. The Asian woman/white man article uses "with" instead of "on". That's far better in my view.

I don't think real life examples should be allowed if they're not reflecting on the racial dynamics behind issues with white man/black women interracial relationships. This might be something that has enough problematic issues attached that it might need to exclude real life examples (to some people, being in an interracial relationship is "drama" and see fit to throw any example of one of these relationships here)

I also feel that if an example is not about racial drama that happens BECAUSE people from these two groups have a relationship it shouldn't be included. It is offensive to just throw any black woman white man relationship here whether it fits the description or not.

Unless Lenny Kravitz's parents suffered prejudice as a result of their interracial relationship, I think their inclusion under the "Real Life" header is inappropriate. Otherwise, under the "No notability standard" standard, ANY white guy/black woman couple would go here. Suggest deletion, and maybe a note to this effect in the intro text.