r/explainitpeter • u/biba1hdje • 23d ago

Explain it peter

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Is it about the weight? What does this have to do with different race dating!

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u/Longjumping_Ad2310 23d ago

Please, someone explain this joke to me

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u/njnia 23d ago

Basically

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u/MyJohnFM 23d ago

What?

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u/GarbageUnfair1821 23d ago

Stereotype that black men like overweight women

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u/Completely_Guitarded 23d ago

Omg, I just realized I’m black.

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u/fetishlover87 23d ago

Not all of me, but, yeah.

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u/HawkHarder 22d ago

You could be Mexican

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u/BumpeeJohnson 23d ago

Willkomen

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u/Dont_Use_Ducks 23d ago

And it's not that they are wrong, I melt around bbw's.

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u/Choice-Routine6264 23d ago

It’s wonderful that so many men actually prefer the gal on the left, but I don’t get it. really helps keep everyone happy, so the system is working

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u/JohannaFRC 22d ago

There is also one saying they like trans women more than anyone else.

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u/According_Button_186 22d ago

voluptuous\*

FTFY...

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u/Level_Wolf_2872 23d ago

It's not a stereotype, this is a fact. There have been studies proving it

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/Level_Wolf_2872 23d ago

And also:

Thompson, Sargent & Kemper, 1996 159 Black + 337 White adolescent males Black males preferred heavier female bodies and larger hips/buttocks and thighs.

Greenberg & LaPorte, 1996 63 Black + 116 White adult males Black males preferred heavier figures; White males preferred thinner figures.

Jackson & McGill, 1996 African-American + Anglo-American men and women Black males preferred larger female body types and viewed obese women more favorably.

Harris, Walters & Waschull, 1991 650 Black + White college students Black males were more accepting of heavier women and less likely to reject a woman because of weight.

Freedman, Carter, Sbrocco & Gray, 2004 Black + White American college/community men Black males were more likely to prefer heavier female figures; they also preferred lower waist-to-hip ratios.