I can't find the right page but I remember calling out moolarkey and I only saw pandora89 calling her out then. I wish more people had spoken out. I don't think you answered my question about what exactly they did that offended you, Moolarkey.
People make disgusting statements about Indian food all the time. It's like many people think that if food has a smell, flavor and a distinct profile, it must immediately be branded as "ethnic" or "exotic". Since it's unfamiliar to them, they react with disgust.
It's attitudes like this that's making our children erase their culture and pretend to be white. Refusing to take anything but PB&J or Mac and cheese because they'd be mocked at school. I'm SMH that adults have the same amount of sense as teenagers.
PS: Also - WTF is curry smell? There's like 1000 types of curry.
I can't find the right page but I remember calling out moolarkey and I only saw pandora89 calling her out then. I wish more people had spoken out. I don't think you answered my question about what exactly they did that offended you, Moolarkey.
People make disgusting statements about Indian food all the time. It's like many people think that if food has a smell, flavor and a distinct profile, it must immediately be branded as "ethnic" or "exotic". Since it's unfamiliar to them, they react with disgust.
It's attitudes like this that's making our children erase their culture and pretend to be white. Refusing to take anything but PB&J or Mac and cheese because they'd be mocked at school. I'm SMH that adults have the same amount of sense as teenagers.
PS: Also - WTF is curry smell? There's like 1000 types of curry.
I got into it with moolarkey about her Indian food bullshit, but my post history has been deleted. I grew up in an affluent suburb in the 80's. My neighbours on either side were Indian and Pakistani. People said all kinds of horrible things about the smell of their houses and clothes, with racial undertones alluding to why they were in the neighborhood at all. My Dad used to love to tell people that his neighbours thought our house smelled like butter and beef. Sequins, it's just a shitty white person thing, I can't even explain it. White people apparently want things to not only be homogenous, but to smell that way too.
Post by TamiTaylor on May 27, 2017 11:55:24 GMT -5
@natariru, even though I'm white I don't get the pride (can't think of a better word) in not bathing themselves or their children everyday. Like I didn't see that until being on these boards. It is apparently it's a widespread thing. Shit Eric showers at least twice a day if not three times and J refuses to go to sleep without a bath. I am guilty of not washing my hair everyday though.
@natariru, even though I'm white I don't get the pride (can't think of a better word) in not bathing themselves or their children everyday. Like didn't see that until being on these boards. It apparently it's a widespread thing. Shit Eric showers at least twice a day if not three times and J refuses to go to sleep without a bath. I am guilty of not washing my hair everyday though.
Hair washing is different!
J's daycare teacher told me she loves holding him bc he is the "best smelling kid she has ever cared for". She asked me what I used on him and I was like "he just gets a bath every day" & laughed.
My family had foster kids growing up, and I still remember the first time a kid looked at the bathtub like 'you soak in a pool of your own filth?' and my mom having to wrap her head around some kids taking several quick showers a day.
My pasty white baby always smells like wet dog right out of the bath. Its true But then once his hair is dry he smells good, AND he gets a bath every night. No neck cheese allowed.
@natariru , even though I'm white I don't get the pride (can't think of a better word) in not bathing themselves or their children everyday. Like I didn't see that until being on these boards. It is apparently it's a widespread thing. Shit Eric showers at least twice a day if not three times and J refuses to go to sleep without a bath. I am guilty of not washing my hair everyday though.
We do baths or showers every day, not always hair, but in the winter I sometimes let K skip a day due to her eczema. I bath every day, but wash hair every couple of days.
Don't understand wanting to be stinky. C gets stress sweat now, in first grade! I had to buy her deodorant.
My pasty white baby always smells like wet dog right out of the bath. Its true But then once his hair is dry he smells good, AND he gets a bath every night. No neck cheese allowed.
K had to be on soy formula when she was a baby and it did not react well with her. She would sweat a fair amount and it stank!
I can't find the right page but I remember calling out moolarkey and I only saw pandora89 calling her out then. I wish more people had spoken out. I don't think you answered my question about what exactly they did that offended you, Moolarkey.
People make disgusting statements about Indian food all the time. It's like many people think that if food has a smell, flavor and a distinct profile, it must immediately be branded as "ethnic" or "exotic". Since it's unfamiliar to them, they react with disgust.
It's attitudes like this that's making our children erase their culture and pretend to be white. Refusing to take anything but PB&J or Mac and cheese because they'd be mocked at school. I'm SMH that adults have the same amount of sense as teenagers.
PS: Also - WTF is curry smell? There's like 1000 types of curry.
I got into it with moolarkey about her Indian food bullshit, but my post history has been deleted. I grew up in an affluent suburb in the 80's. My neighbours on either side were Indian and Pakistani. People said all kinds of horrible things about the smell of their houses and clothes, with racial undertones alluding to why they were in the neighborhood at all. My Dad used to love to tell people that his neighbours thought our house smelled like butter and beef. Sequins, it's just a shitty white person thing, I can't even explain it. White people apparently want things to not only be homogenous, but to smell that way too.
What kills me though is this - turmeric has been used in Indian and Asian cuisine for like a 1000 years. Some blogger decided to turn it into twee movement. Voila - golden milk is all the rage. Golden ice cream, golden macarons and all that jazz. So now suddenly turmeric is ok? It stains your tupperware and fingers when it's in my "ethnic" food but tee hee look at that fancy golden milk with a unicorn toast!
Same goes for coconut oil.
Everything needs to be prettily packaged and white-washed for acceptance.
Anyway, I don't want to sound like I'm complaining too much because then people will tell me to just go back to my country (it has happened before).
I'm late to comment, but mainly because I wrote this bitch off years ago. Elsa made an ignorant anti-Semitic comment in an Israel post and then doubled down when I called her on it, saying people from CEP said the same (pretty sure it was under her old name and the posters she was quoting were TTT and bunnybean, who can GFT). I generally expect someone who is hateful to one minority group isn't picking and choosing. She is beyond basic and uneducated, so anything she says is pretty worthless to me.
I can't find the right page but I remember calling out moolarkey and I only saw pandora89 calling her out then. I wish more people had spoken out. I don't think you answered my question about what exactly they did that offended you, Moolarkey.
People make disgusting statements about Indian food all the time. It's like many people think that if food has a smell, flavor and a distinct profile, it must immediately be branded as "ethnic" or "exotic". Since it's unfamiliar to them, they react with disgust.
It's attitudes like this that's making our children erase their culture and pretend to be white. Refusing to take anything but PB&J or Mac and cheese because they'd be mocked at school. I'm SMH that adults have the same amount of sense as teenagers.
PS: Also - WTF is curry smell? There's like 1000 types of curry.
Exactly.
I know we've moved on but you bet your ass I remembered every single detail of moolarkey's vile, disgusting, racist comments. As a kid I was ashamed to be caught dead eating "brown people food" at school because "it smelt bad" and "looked gross". I'd hide it in my lunch bag and try sneak bites when people weren't looking. Then I just stopped bringing it in and begged my mom to pack me "normal people food".
My dad, to this day, leaves all the doors and windows at my parents house open every time he cooks. Whether it is in the middle of a heat wave in the summer or freezing cold in the winter (keep in mind I live in canada). Why? Because he is worried that his clothes will smell like the food he eats and people at work would judge. This is a man who is almost 60 and has had a very successful career.
So yes, I remember every single detail when someone comes on here and states that the food I eat smells so fucking disgusting that it makes her and her colleagues almost throw up.
I can't find the right page but I remember calling out moolarkey and I only saw pandora89 calling her out then. I wish more people had spoken out. I don't think you answered my question about what exactly they did that offended you, Moolarkey.
People make disgusting statements about Indian food all the time. It's like many people think that if food has a smell, flavor and a distinct profile, it must immediately be branded as "ethnic" or "exotic". Since it's unfamiliar to them, they react with disgust.
It's attitudes like this that's making our children erase their culture and pretend to be white. Refusing to take anything but PB&J or Mac and cheese because they'd be mocked at school. I'm SMH that adults have the same amount of sense as teenagers.
PS: Also - WTF is curry smell? There's like 1000 types of curry.
Exactly.
I know we've moved on but you bet your ass I remembered every single detail of moolarkey 's vile, disgusting, racist comments. As a kid I was ashamed to be caught dead eating "brown people food" at school because "it smelt bad" and "looked gross". I'd hide it in my lunch bag and try sneak bites when people weren't looking. Then I just stopped bringing it in and begged my mom to pack me "normal people food".
My dad, to this day, leaves all the doors and windows at my parents house open every time he cooks. Whether it is in the middle of a heat wear in the summer or freezing cold in the winter (keep in mind I live in canada). Why? Because he is worried that his clothes will smell like the food he eats and people at work would judge. This is a man who is almost 60 and has had a very successful career.
So yes, I remember every single detail when someone comes on here and states that the food I eat smells so fucking disgusting that it makes her and her colleagues almost throw up.
I'm sorry that happened to you pandora89. That's really terrible. I used to love walking into my friends' apartments in NYC, all the different food smells were so welcoming. Russian, Korean, Jewish, Italian, Jamaican and Indian. I was lucky that I got to experience all of my friends different cultures via food without leaving my neighborhood.
White or Black and every shade of skin in between..some of you are just fucking cruel. If it brings you pleasure to cost someone else pain then I pray for you.
Indeed. It is depressing to see in retrospect how the Jewish posters on the board have been treated and how I/we had to keep saying the same obvious shit. I suppose it's part of why there aren't so many of us around, either. It also was deja vu because I've seen you and other WOC do the same as I did in being patient before we just gave up.
Becky and her limp sad played-out hairstyle can go elsewhere with the other idiots in that thread. Seriously. Fuck you. I have a pretty great life and I do work that matters to me because I want to do it while you can't book a plane ticket ffs.
I go back (to that post 5 years ago and to posts from last week) and see what I missed and what I said and I see constantly how much more work I have to do. It makes sense to me why people say forget this and move on.
And so many posts have been deleted, so I know that there are thing we can't read anymore that used to be there that were worse (that I should have said something about).