Category: The Taboo — White Women Crossing that Line
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A Fate Worse than Death
Yeah, there were actually two different punishments for breaking that taboo. The guy would get killed, and the girl would get a fate worse than death. Sure, don’t you remember those Westerns? There’d be that lady who gets kidnapped in some battle, and then one day the soldiers bring her back to the Fort, with…
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The Woods of Brezje
A Short Short Story She regarded me with an insolent air of superiority. “You’re really into that, aren’t you?” She stood several inches shorter than me, as if to emphasize her superior femininity, half her height draped in exquisite blond curls, framing a face even more beautiful. “I know what you’re looking for,” she went…
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Transcendence
It’s been fifty, maybe sixty years since a number of American white ladies began being absorbed into the African American population, and despite whatever contributions we’ve made that may be of some relative value (or did you vote for McCain?) we have no voice whatsoever, no standing whatsoever, it’s as if we aren’t even here. …
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What it is
I’m sure I couldn’t recall all the times I’ve been confronted, either directly, or indirectly with disdain over what was imagined to be what was there for me in a mixed relationship. What I wanted. What I saw in ‘them.’ Everybody knows already what a white female like that wants. There isn’t any point saying…
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A White Woman’s Attraction to Black Men
Wow, that feels really ridiculous. Saying that. Why would I want to tell this world what I really think or feel when it already knows EVERYTHING on that subject? There’s no curiosity. Except maybe a prurient interest. Yeah I’m pissed. I’ve had a lifetime to think about what was really going on with me and…