I have an extraordinarily handsome brown friend. Arab and Pakistani, I believe. 5'10-5'11, curly haired, dresses well. An all-around pretty handsome friend. It's to the point where other men tell him he's a ten and glaze him at bars. It's very cringe. Other dudes will tell him they want to look like him, which puts into perspective just how handsome he is. I have another friend who's a little shorter, overweight due to his alcohol abuse, schlubby with a patchy beard, slurs most of his words and is balding in college. The thing is, though, he is white. An argument broke out among our friend group, which is quite diverse. Couple white guys, one Chinese guy, two black guys, an indian guy and the two mentioned before. I was arguing that being white was pretty important in dating, and it does more for you than being handsome will. They all disagreed and told me that Friend A gets a ton of girls. I told them being ethnic doesn't mean you can't pull, it just means you're at a disadvantage compared to a dude who is on your level of looks. They started questioning if I watched redpill content like Fresh and Fit and that I sounded like the blackpill TikTok edits that went viral. I decided to turn it into a game. Both Friend A and Friend B would make a Tinder profile at the same time with the name "Paul". We made sure every detail was the same and even used some of the same pictures where we were all hanging out. We made sure the photo quality stayed the same as well. The first night was alright: 11 likes for the less attractive white guy and 8 for the handsome brown friend. Then, in the next few days, to everyone's surprise but my own, the gap began to spread. A 10 like gap on day 1, a 19 like gap on day 3. By the end of the week, the white dude had 6,7 and our brown friend had 33. Keep in mind, we live in a diverse college town with many locals and internationals. It didn't matter how good Friend A looks, all types of women seem to have a preference for the white boy. Obviously all the white country girls preferred him, but the Sudanese model-type exchange students, the brown nerdy girls, and South American travelers all preferred the Friend B. What makes it worse is that more of the white dudes matches reached out to him first, and the brown friend has only a few say hi. My biggest enemy in the group told me he thought I was an idiot until we did this experiment and he saw for himself proof of "the ethnic tax".
Right now the white dude has over 256 likes because he paid for gold. Brown guy is stuck at 50. Brutal.
Right now the white dude has over 256 likes because he paid for gold. Brown guy is stuck at 50. Brutal.
