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I think a lot of people have a misconception of this, or think it's a simplistic way of explaining away one's person flaws, or if you're IT, you think that the person stating "JBW" is some white Neo-Nazi who thinks whites are better than everyone else. Well I'm a brown guy living in Canada, and JBW is, for the most part, a very valid explanation for the kind of couples you see on the street, but people really do not do it justice when describing it or why it's a potent theory.
At its core, being white affords you neutrality. You are a blank slate, a tabula rasa. Socially, you are the normal, even a woman who grew up being told white people are bad and to accept diversity, at the end of the day visualizes herself with a white man, even if the society she is taught to accept is full of different coloured pets. And that's what we are, even to those women, different coloured skin people that make her feel morally superior, because she has accepted them into society.
The following consequence to this neutrality is that non-white women will forego some of their standards for white men, or they would expect less from a white man than they would from a man of their own race. And that is because that social neutrality is the currency that enables that exchange.
This social neutrality is an incredibly powerful thing that I do not think people realize. People will make snap decisions on others just based on their physical appearance, so if you're not a perfect, tall ethnic with European-centric facial features, you automatically open yourself up to be seen as your race first, then yourself second.
We can ask why that is. Is it media driven? Is it because European features are objectively attractive? Sure. Regardless, there are people in the World who happened to be born with them, and people who were not born with them, and had no choice in the matter so its a moot point.
What I found funny is that Canadian women experience such a cognitive dissonance between their desire to date white men and the "Equality and diversity" indoctrination they face, that they'll try to make it seemingly less about race and more about hobbies. "I like hockey guys" "I like guys who go camping". This straight up just means white guys, because believe me she's not suddenly going to start dating an Indian guy who plays hockey.
The point that stands is that as simple as JBW theory might mean, it is far deeper and more complex than that.
At its core, being white affords you neutrality. You are a blank slate, a tabula rasa. Socially, you are the normal, even a woman who grew up being told white people are bad and to accept diversity, at the end of the day visualizes herself with a white man, even if the society she is taught to accept is full of different coloured pets. And that's what we are, even to those women, different coloured skin people that make her feel morally superior, because she has accepted them into society.
The following consequence to this neutrality is that non-white women will forego some of their standards for white men, or they would expect less from a white man than they would from a man of their own race. And that is because that social neutrality is the currency that enables that exchange.
This social neutrality is an incredibly powerful thing that I do not think people realize. People will make snap decisions on others just based on their physical appearance, so if you're not a perfect, tall ethnic with European-centric facial features, you automatically open yourself up to be seen as your race first, then yourself second.
We can ask why that is. Is it media driven? Is it because European features are objectively attractive? Sure. Regardless, there are people in the World who happened to be born with them, and people who were not born with them, and had no choice in the matter so its a moot point.
What I found funny is that Canadian women experience such a cognitive dissonance between their desire to date white men and the "Equality and diversity" indoctrination they face, that they'll try to make it seemingly less about race and more about hobbies. "I like hockey guys" "I like guys who go camping". This straight up just means white guys, because believe me she's not suddenly going to start dating an Indian guy who plays hockey.
The point that stands is that as simple as JBW theory might mean, it is far deeper and more complex than that.
