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"strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male." Yeah, that… really doesn't sound as common a theme as you imply
by orbat 7y ago
"strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male."
Yeah, that… really doesn't sound as common a theme as you imply
- Simon_says 7y agoIt must be common in 2Ccltvcm's feed. Maybe the algorithm knows him a little too well.
- YUMad 7y agoIt is not common IRL, black male + white female is the 2nd least common interracial coupling. However, without going into who's pushing it, it is significantly more common in media than IRL.
- trophycase 7y agoMaybe not the black male part. But the "competent woman" and "bumbling helpless male" is an extremely common TV commercial trope once you're paying attention.
- krapp 7y agoIt's not really a commercial trope so much as a TV sitcom trope, going back at least as far as the Honeymooners. It's also not as common as it used to be, as far as I can tell. Edit: I've been thinking about it, and I don't think I can recall ever actually seeing "black male rescuing a white woman from a white male" being used in an advertisement, anywhere. Typically such a motif is used to present the black male as a threat, not as somehow heroically superior to his white counterpart. Even then I can only recall its use in political advertisements (such as the infamous "Willie Horton" ad) and maybe very old movies.