Bondage among other things

Yeah its pretty late right now...but never late than never right? Gotta wear that saying out ya know.

I read Bondage during class while trying to keep focus on what everyone was saying around me. It was awkward, but somehow I knew that I should have read it, especially to be able to put the other plays in perspective. It was a great read. In fact it raised a lot of questions about racial relations that I have wanted to see explored for quite sometime.

Interracial relationships are my "thing" because I am in one and have been in others. I don't seek them out nor do I think I have a fetish, but they happen and it hasn't become an issue until I've come to school. Strangely it is an internal conflict. Now that I think about it, in reality its pretentious of me to think that other people really give a fuck about who I'm...ya know...But the difficulties are real, if they weren't i wouldn't be obsessing over them.

Bondage put my "issue" in perspective because both of the characters were playing out fantasies in a way that didn't reveal their own ethnicities even though the action of the roleplay concerned the specific races of their personas. The scene where Mark? (I don't have the play in front of me) is a white man picking up a black woman played by Terri? or Tara (I'll just have to change this when I get my hands on that book.) surprised me because I could totally relate, not that I try to pick up black women by being offensive or anything. Liberalism is killing our equality.

Coming from my previous posts, its definitely an issue to become too "equal". The liberal white mans manual on how to pick up black woman instructs them to fuck their mind first then their body instead of treating them like real women and just go for the gold like any self respecting man would looking for satiation in a women requiring the same fix. But instead he must compliment her intelligence or that she appears intelligent. We should not otherwise just because of her race? She seems to think so and is offended...playfully...flirtfully. Instead of directly addressing the issue we still see the woman use this subversive "insult" to better position herself for what she's after in her man. Is this "technique" of picking up black women really an insult or is it an over reaction on her part?

That is the question to answer and quite frankly from his point of view he might honestly be thinking, hey I want this woman to know that I set her apart from these stereotypes while I'm trying to get into her pants because if she thinks I see her as a woman instead of a black woman she get down to business like we both want...etc. Its all about positioning! Sadly in this case there is no right answer (or never...). Both parties are EQUALLY offensive. HA!

Kinda lackluster but I had to put down in writing eventually