
receiving unwanted male attention isn’t the opposite of “having a hard time dating”. I used to be fat in a way that made me conventionally unattractive and I still received too much male attention—that was Part Of my difficulty in dating: men didn’t respect me, they just saw me as an easy target
OP acknowledged herself in her post that conventional attractiveness was part of what the other woman in question was complaining about. the conventional beauty standard in the US objectively does favor whiteness, that’s not just a generalization and it definitely doesn’t mean she thinks all black women are ugly or something
every black woman experiences racism in some form. oftentimes part of how this manifests is that even an otherwise conventionally beautiful black woman is not valued to the same extent as a conventionally beautiful white woman. it's just difficult to express that fact in a way that gets reliably interpreted correctly because English doesn't afford us a lot of vocabulary for clearly distinguishing between "being good-looking" vs "meeting the conventional beauty standard" [reposted to fix a typo]