We've all done a great job collectively refuting the merit of this article even though I doubt any of us are blerds. The sentiments many of us have expressed were attributed to blerds, thus “
if this sounds like you” by extension you are blerd (a neat trick to get non blerds to defend themselves against being blerds). There have been some generalizations or lack of qualifiers on our part (I didn't care to mention them because of the personal nature of what was said and every word has been insightful, I was cosigning much of it.) I have to think over the statement below however, my thought process (and probably more generalizations) follow below.
i wondered that too, if you were a good man with a job or career, education, healthy, cultured, and no baby mommas and kids all over, why is it that black women think the worst of you?
i dont know where it comes from? what do they mean by a good man then? i have been asking this question for 25 years.
The Black women who think the worst of you, the "baby mama" (or shall we say the female social equivalent of the imprisoned thug) has many grievances. Her situation is her station, she can not move out of the stratified class that she believes she's in, which she might consciously or unconsciously attribute solely to being Black.
i wondered that too, if you were a good man with a job or career, education, healthy, cultured, and no baby mommas and kids all over, why is it that black women think the worst of you?
They don't think any better of the thug they are with, they either think you are inherently on his level (a nigga) or they have recognized your ability within the social dynamic, but instead of thinking you the equal of a White man, they merely think you are trying to be like him. There is no such thing as a good man to these women who unfortunately probably see little good in their lives.
For the Black women not in this dynamic, those with relative, equal, or greater status, the ones from
whence the
There are no good Black men argument likely originates, well I don't attribute the same sentiments to them that the baby mamas have of Black men being no good. Their negative sentiments likely come from not finding their pedestal, to having a skewed perception of self-worth being equated with net-worth, to a competitive feeling towards BM for a host of unhealthy reasons .....
I'm sure for some positive Black women, who are only attracted to Black men, finding a single good BM that wants them can be rather hard. Dating is not easy for most women. So what about the Black woman who has her shit together? What about the Black woman with a career, who's educated, healthy, cultured, and has no baby momma drama.
This is the profile I see when I hear of all the Black women that are single. . They don't want Black thugs or White men, they seemingly want the Black male equivalent of themselves and cant find it because....well,
we have heard the many reasons why.....
So questions abound about
Why these women can't find good BM? and then tuckerreed's question,
what do they mean by a good man then? The whole issue to me now appears a
RED HERRING. I never hear about BW that actually have a good Black man (I don't get out much, but I know several Black women with great Black men). How do these Black women get these "good Black men" Surely, no one is suggesting every Black women is single. The question should be in the vain of:
What's wrong with the Black women who can't find a good man? Not
What's wrong with Black men that a Black woman can't find a good one.
The issue of Black women supposedly not being able to find a man, or a good one, is only the concern of Black women who can't,
no one else. I'm tired of seeing this issue in the media as if Black women and by extension the "Black community" are somehow going extinct because BW can't find good Black men.
Their station is not our station; meaning, the realities of being Black in America only extend into the sociopolitical realm up to a point, then the issues become a matter of personal responsibility--it's only so long some can hold their deficiencies over us as a collective issue. A Black woman not being able to find a man is her problem and not indicative of a larger societal issue that has to be addressed.
Black marriages/couples failing is more indicative of a societal issue; those women being capable to have found a man should not be included in the women who say they can't find a good man, because presumably the man you chose to share your life with and have kids with is/was
GOOD. Black women who say they can't find a good Black man, and yet took a knowingly
BAD one instead she be disregarded from the discussion. They are no more good or single than the Black men they shack up with. If Black women, Asian men and Blerds.....etc.... can not find mates then they will be “assed out” of the future gene pool, as simple as that. No one is giving you a shot; it's survival of the fittest.
i dont know where it comes from? .
Of course you don't know where it comes from. You would never blame your inability to get a Black woman on Black women, you are not a blerd. Unlike a blerd, you're a socially functional person more than capable of engaging a Black woman, who are like any other women in that they require a basic level of social skills to interact with. The blogger concedes that blerds can get White women. Why would a blerd have trouble getting a Black woman, but not a White one?
This whole false argument that a segment of the Black male population (blerds) are complaining about not finding Black women is akin to the false argument that Black men get angry when they see Black women with White men. There is no BM counterpart to the bs of some these BW.
The few real Black nerds are hooking up with the White and Asian women they lusted after in the first place, and Black men who have no trouble getting women anywhere on this planet are not thinking about Black women with White men, we are more interested in that White dudes
real sister.