Damn still screwed! Mid sized feet, not a nobleman, and am "Italian" American.
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I've seen several dating profiles where they express their racial preferences so not much has changed here.
No French, Italians, Spaniards or Hebrews need apply.
It's jarring not because racism is gone, but because of how blatant it used to be.
In my opinion, it's perfectly fine to have a preference for age, weight, height, facial features, personality, income, religion, intelligence, humor, etc. Racism is ignoring all of that and rejecting someone before you know a single thing about them just because of their ethnicity.
I wonder if this worked for her. Surely thereβs a record somewhere.
Likely if you care to search local archives that are probably not online.
There are plenty of people who did find someone via newspaper ads. Though I don't think it was ever common.
According to a comment by editorgrrl in this r/TheWayWeWere reddit post, it is a joke.
Life magazine (sometimes called βold Lifeβ) was a parody published by graduates of the Harvard Lampoon.
[The] image is one of ten fake personal ads from volume 27, number 679. Transcription of the two which appear on page 121 at the link...
https://archive.org/details/life2728mitc/page/n9/mode/1up
Another version they gave:
She could have said "no darkies, even if you are European". Then again, French certainly doesn't count. π€·π»
Nothing wrong with having a skin tone preference, but I think it's dumb to put it in a dating profile. One, you'll turn people off thinking you're a racist even if you're not. Two, you never know. I've always dated super pale girls. Ended up with a dark Filipino. Who knows?
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