Thanks Leathebear for adding all those juicy new ~butt tags especially ~smooth-butt. I overlooked that one. :cool2:
I would never call my self to be Caucasian, which IMHO is a pejorative term. I would call me European for which we have already the tag ~euros (if I understood correctly for what that tag shall be used, some more fefinitions to the tags would be good)
Uwe, all ethnic designations IMHO are pejorative in some form. I wonder how a person of color who's lived in France all their life when featured in erotica is billed as interracial feels being highlighted exclusively for their "otherness" Aren't they're ~euro's too? It seems like all ~Hispanic, ~arab, ~asian, ~latino or black men when featured in Euro-American productions has to be listed by one those ethic pejoratives. My collection and what I upload is predominately non-Caucasian. I collect them because they tend to be rarer than works that feature all Caucasian casts. I need a ~tag to for all the types of men in my collection.
So let's all move away from how those terms may have been negatively used in the pass and embrace the diversity of their meanings like we do with ~youngblood ~bear or ~bsdm. ~Caucasians like other tags about cast members attempts to describe someone's physical attributes in a manner in which the can be indexed and recognized by others. I think we all realize history of terms like blacks and Asians as being modern adaptations of terms Negroid and Mongoloid (the Wikipedia link mentioned that too).
I'm not attempting to argue about the validity of any racial tag. However if were going to use ~tags for people of color we need a ~tag that broadly defines members of our humanity which have significantly less color, with a higher probabilities of non-brown hair and eye colors than most.
"Early on in the [anti-racism] workshop there was an exercise which focused on "cultural racism and white cultural identity." Whites in the workshop were asked to talk about white culture. Most couldn't or wouldn't. The expression meant nothing to me. Nevertheless, we all struggled with it. As time went on we discovered that, in a sense, it was a trick question. The facilitators wanted the whites to struggle and to discover that the expression did have little or no content. Racial designations, white and black, are totally social constructs. "What then," they asked, "would you say about your culture? How would you define your culture and your relationship to it?" Though most of the whites had a difficult time talking about her/his culture - some resisted pretty strenuously - the trainers took a clear stand: if whites are to come to the multi-cultural table, they - we - must reclaim our individual cultural backgrounds. In many ways, we were reminded, African Americans are way ahead of European Americans in retaining their cultural identities." How the Irish Became White, A sermon by Art MacDonald, Ph.D. hxxp://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/white13.htm
