Reply #53: Blame High School [View All]

I think most the negative vibes emanating from this thread can be traced back to high school.

The lack of sympathy (real or not) attractive white women seem to garner is probably just a leftover feeling of acrimony from the days when those of us who were NOT attractive white women had to put up with attractive white women getting all the breaks in high school.

It was the attractive white women who refused to date the non-jocks or non-preps in high school.

It was the attractive white women who treated the ugly or plain girls in high school so shabbily.

It was the attractive white women who got break after break in high school, flouting the rules, while the ugly or plain boys and girls were punished for minor offenses.

So now, whenever the media seems to dwell overlong on any tragedy surrounding an attractive white woman, many of us (dare I say, most of us?) who were neither the attractive white women or those they dated flash back to our high school days when such attractive white women had the run of the school. We think how nice, how JUST, it would have been back then for these attractive white women to suffer some cruel fate, if only to bring a little bit of harmony back into an unjust universe.

Not that I am bitter.*

Evil Kumquat
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*Bitter? Not at all. Even though the contents of this post could be used as a thumb-sucking repellent for toddlers.

All kidding aside, I was pretty pragmatic in high school. I realized early on that a geek like me (I had brains and was shorter than most girls) had ZERO chance at scoring with the attractive white girls, so I never felt a need to treat them any better or worse than anyone else in the school.

I still stared at their chests, though. I was pragmatic and geeky, not gay.