Pillow Talk: Why I Won't Date White People

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Eileen Kelly

Eileenkelly, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Mentalhealth

4.8 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After experiencing fetishization and other problematic behavior at the hands of white men, Dylan is wary of dating them again. In this episode, Dylan discusses the social and cultural reasons behind his trepidation.

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0:00.0	This is Pillow Talk, brought to you by Killer and A Sweet Thing.
0:05.0	I'm Eileen Kelly and I'm Jacob Safarian.
0:08.0	On this podcast we normalize sexual experiences
0:15.0	not to
0:18.0	by allowing the people who live them to speak for themselves.
0:15.0	On today's episode, we're joined by Dylan,
0:18.0	a young black queer man who chooses not to date white people.
0:22.0	Today's episode was recorded at the Canal Street Market.
0:25.5	Welcome to Pillow Talk.
0:28.0	To begin, could you give our listeners
0:30.4	a little overview of your dating experience.
0:33.0	Okay, so I'm a native New Yorker,
0:36.0	so I've been dating up until a certain point,
0:39.0	only New Yorkers.
0:40.0	I was talking about this with someone last night, actually.
0:42.0	Now I'm mostly dating non-New Yorkers, now that I'm over the age of 18.
0:46.7	I when I was younger I'd say like any Darkest and Black man I've had my internalized
0:50.8	colorism issue so I only was really interested in men that did not
0:53.5	look like me so I really was into like fair skin Latino dudes white guys like skin black
0:58.8	guys for a long time but I don't want to act like a my growth to college, but over that period of time that's when I just started to dissect my own views upon myself and my reasoning for dating how I did and then started really just opening up like really men of color
1:15.0	exclusively.
1:16.7	The transition happened just because of my previous interactions with white gay men,
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