There are many forms that racism takes and like many aspects of racism they are accepted as “harmless” by anyone unaffected by it. One of these many forms is through racial fetishizing porn categories like “BBC”, “snow bunny”, and “PAWG” that are used mostly by white women and white gay men.
“Phat”
Coined by black people, phat is a variation of “fat” and was created to be a body positive word referring to black bodies, specifically women and femmes. White women started using the term to invade black spaces, overshadowing those it meant to uplift.
PAWG
A term coined by white women, PAWG stands for “phat ass white girl”. Again, phat is being used here by white women in order to invade spaces that was not meant for them. Black people have every right to want their own spaces because we, as white people, take up the most space as it is.
BBC
Standing for “Big Black Cock”, BBC is a widely known “porn category” (in the United States, at least) that fetishes black dicks1. Fetishization is a form of dehumanization and dates back to the initial racist thoughts of our -white people- colonizing ancestors.
Snow Bunny
Similar to BBC, Snow Bunny2 refers to a white woman who fetishizes black dicks.
- Black dick fetishizers have been seen using the spade emoji (♠️) to label themselves on social media. ↩︎
- If you know “Snow Bunny” (❄️🐰 or 🐇) to be a woman who wears ski gear but doesn’t ski, you can blame white women who fetishize black dicks for ruining it. Ski Bunny is the new term for such- if you weren’t already aware. ↩︎
Recommended Reading
- Back on the Auction Block: A Discussion of Black Women and Pornography
- Black former gay porn star calls out systemic racism in sex work and pleads with studios to cut ties with racist performers
- “I’m Not Your Fantasy”: Sexual Racism, Racial Fetishization, and the Exploitation of Racialized Men Who Have Sex with Men
- The Colonial Roots of the Racial Fetishization of Black Women
- The Racial Stereotype, Colonial Discourse, Fetishism, and Racism (you have to pay to read the full article, however- the first page you can read for free is informative on its own)
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