In November of 2009, Essence Magazine printed an article entitled, "Date Like A White Girl." The article speaks about rewriting the conservative Black girl dating rules. A snippet follows below:
“Yes, I’m stereotyping White girls as footloose and free based on my first introduction to courtship (Kelly Kapowski on “Saved by the Bell”) and the White women in the cubicle next to me who don’t live in fear of some looming man shortage.”
I decided to stop screening every guy to determine whether he'd be my shot at beating the Black girls odds of getting down the aisle. Under my new rules I went out with a valet. The old me would have turned him down for fear that if "happily ever after" ever came, he wouldn't be able to keep the lights on in our fairy-tale castle. But just hearing his Jamaican accent as he placed his order was worth my time.
In face, most of my dates I went on were worthwhile. None of them was Mr. Right, but I was happy to have a Mr. Right Now to join me at a Yankees game or for brunch. A date is a date. And even when it's a dud, I won't feed into fears that love and marriage and beyond this Black woman's reach.
“Yes, I’m stereotyping White girls as footloose and free based on my first introduction to courtship (Kelly Kapowski on “Saved by the Bell”) and the White women in the cubicle next to me who don’t live in fear of some looming man shortage.”
I decided to stop screening every guy to determine whether he'd be my shot at beating the Black girls odds of getting down the aisle. Under my new rules I went out with a valet. The old me would have turned him down for fear that if "happily ever after" ever came, he wouldn't be able to keep the lights on in our fairy-tale castle. But just hearing his Jamaican accent as he placed his order was worth my time.
In face, most of my dates I went on were worthwhile. None of them was Mr. Right, but I was happy to have a Mr. Right Now to join me at a Yankees game or for brunch. A date is a date. And even when it's a dud, I won't feed into fears that love and marriage and beyond this Black woman's reach.
Do black women need to start "dating like white girls?"
Is this really how white girls date?
Do white women understand the rules of dating better than black women?
Is this really how white girls date?
Do white women understand the rules of dating better than black women?