Tecate. Couldnt remember when I wtote the post but looked it up later with a search on that string.
Was thinking a little about this... people who have stereotypes don't always know that they have them; and sometimes people are reacting to stereotypes they have run into in the past. For example, I dislike being called "honey" or "sweetie" except perhaps by octagenarians. It's often a put-down and generally is a unnecessary reference to gender. Nor am I particularly sweet in nature. On the other hand, to tell a story on myself, I was once accused of racism because, as editorial page editor of a college newspaper, I printed a cartoon portraying a black teenager. I was most taken aback; I thought I had broken a race barrier and hired a black cartoonist! Ah but see, the wolves were already howling for my head, and, I was told, blacks had their "own" newspaper (though it was weekly not daily). On reflection though, I was ignorant of a racial context on campus where I perhaps should not have been. And the cartoonist tried to tell me :) If the "white" campus paper has a cartoon of a black then it must be racially intended; whereas the same cartoon in the "black" paper would have been all in good fun. I should have printed the ones lampooning the administration first -- the administration is always fair game -- and *then* worked some black faces into the cartoons. My bad, really. So to those that say that calling a woman Aunt Jemima or Betty Crocker isn't racist or sexist, actually, yes, it could be. I would not like to be likened to Betty Crocker unless it was in the context, perhaps, of baking. Which is really not my thing. It's like the Hispanic guy on the west side of San Antonio that glanced at me and said, "you're down from the north side, huh?" San Antonio is a pretty segregated town and the north side is the "white" side. You might say, well, I am white. But there was more to this. A lot of the north side is *very* affluent, gated communities and limousines affluent. So the remark was more to the effect that hey, you're white, you shop at Northrop's, and you must be slumming, maybe out of your depth. Or maybe looking for a Mexican :) See my point? As it happened, I was eating dinner and I was driving the taxi parked outside. And I didn't bother trying to educate him, but yeah, that was a stereotype there :) ::shrug:: Dana Dana On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:36:16 -0800, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What was the name of the beer company? > > > "Finally, a cold Latina." > > -- > -- > > will > > "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; > and that would just be unacceptable." > - Carrie Fisher > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:137318 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
