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Old 08-20-2014, 10:09 AM
 
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That's the truth. Online you can have criteria and then begin to dwindle it down. Also, you have a higher number of people available in front of you. Out in public it doesn't always equate to a high number of availability. Race is one of those things I notice first. If there's 10 women available, there's a good chance 5 aren't going to be interested in dating a black male. Of the 5 remaining, 2 I'm already likely not interested in. The remaining 3 is just a toss up. If I was a white male in my area I would have a better success rate. Even what I've heard from my white female friends is that I accept you just fine, but there's members of my family that would have a hard time. They've even admitted that not only is dating their own race easier, but it's widely available for them. Family is big in my area and no one wants to tick off the distant cousin twice removed!
Yeah, with race there's not much you can do about it, but becoming rich and famous always seems to work!
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:11 AM
 
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All those guys look decent to me except for the balding one.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:23 AM
 
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Yeah, with race there's not much you can do about it, but becoming rich and famous always seems to work!
Public notoriety definitely changes the situation.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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All those guys look decent to me except for the balding one.
Exactly.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:45 AM
 
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Exactly.
"Decent" as in above average, so if you're telling me that the Average Spanish Joe looks like Gerard Pique, you're confirming that their "average" is more attractive than America's.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:55 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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"Decent" as in above average, so if you're telling me that the Average Spanish Joe looks like Gerard Pique, you're confirming that their "average" is more attractive than America's.
OMG I show you a pic of 10 guys to give you example and you pic the best looking one to argue about.
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Old 08-20-2014, 10:58 AM
 
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OMG I show you a pic of 10 guys to give you example and you pic the best looking one to argue about.
It's hard to tell from just the photo, but I think the two on the left (front row and back row) are more attractive than him. I just singled him out because he was the only one I knew by name.
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Old 08-20-2014, 11:01 AM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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You do realize you're using a photo of professional athletes which are, of course, more attractive than the norm almost by definition, right?

It is as silly as using celebrities for any type of relationship comparison.
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Old 08-20-2014, 11:40 AM
 
Location: New England
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That's the truth. Online you can have criteria and then begin to dwindle it down. Also, you have a higher number of people available in front of you. Out in public it doesn't always equate to a high number of availability. Race is one of those things I notice first. If there's 10 women available, there's a good chance 5 aren't going to be interested in dating a black male. Of the 5 remaining, 2 I'm already likely not interested in. The remaining 3 is just a toss up. If I was a white male in my area I would have a better success rate. Even what I've heard from my white female friends is that I accept you just fine, but there's members of my family that would have a hard time. They've even admitted that not only is dating their own race easier, but it's widely available for them. Family is big in my area and no one wants to tick off the distant cousin twice removed!
But statistically, it's well known that there are hugely more single black women than single black men. In this day & age there's no reason to tell people that they can't date someone of another race, but at the same time, being in a minority group certainly gives people something in common. But then maybe the issue is that black women aren't as likely to be doing online dating as black men are?

Besides, it's not as if the white guys are saying the women are rushing into their arms, either.
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Old 08-20-2014, 01:04 PM
 
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But statistically, it's well known that there are hugely more single black women than single black men. In this day & age there's no reason to tell people that they can't date someone of another race, but at the same time, being in a minority group certainly gives people something in common. But then maybe the issue is that black women aren't as likely to be doing online dating as black men are?

Besides, it's not as if the white guys are saying the women are rushing into their arms, either.
In my area, there's a very small amount of black women. I'd say for every 50 white women, there's maybe 2-3 black women. Very true that most black women don't do online dating. Way more black men dabble in online dating.
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