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If you ever get tired of dating apps, there's another option. (media.piefed.world)
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[–] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen several dating profiles where they express their racial preferences so not much has changed here.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I've seen that stuff on dating apps. Usually either excluding black or looking for black specifically.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

"can dance all night"

She DTF.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn still screwed! Mid sized feet, not a nobleman, and am "Italian" American.

[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the last sentence was describing her, not what she’s looking for.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well I am not even mentioned on the list so you might have better chances then me.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if this worked for her. Surely there’s a record somewhere.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

I just want the drama, not to do the work to find it.

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to a comment by editorgrrl in this r/TheWayWeWere reddit post, it is a joke.

Life magazine (sometimes called β€œold Life”) 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:

https://archive.org/embed/life2728mitc

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 year ago

small feet

Fuck off, vile jezebel.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Can "dance" all night....

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

She could have said "no darkies, even if you are European". Then again, French certainly doesn't count. 🀷🏻

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?