Anwar White warns against dating lighter-skinned men, describing how she was drawn to them for their looks and education but suffered emotional and physical abuse. She argues they've been treated as prizes and react badly when denied special treatment.
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So I would stay away from them. And this is as someone. Girl, that was my type. Girl, I thought that I was. This is, this is my tea. I thought that I was going to get with someone that looked like Jesse Williams. He was going to be 6:2. He was also going to have in a grad degree from an Ivy League institution and he. Girl, he was going to be.
Red.
No, not even yellow. Orange girl, he was going to be orange. Girl. A little bit of red bone and a little bit of yellow tail. Girl.
I suffered. I suffered. And if you have ever been engaged with any sort of man that was lighter in the comments, let me know how much you suffered.
Let me know how much you suffered.
Someone said black and abstinent. Any advice?
No advice girl. You don't want the advice that I have to give you.
Honey. Going back to these lighter skinned men, half the girls are saying that they, they, they needed therapy. I'm not surprised.
And this is a thing that a lot of people don't talk about but it's very important.
Because they have been told that they are the prize. They expect that from the women that they're with and when you don't give that to them they can get abusive physically and or emotionally.