Any other mummy's of mixed race babies/ children get annoyed by constant ignorant comments
How do you deal with them? And any classics? I get the old "at least she's got a permanent tan" quite a lot
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CharIotte · 12/05/2022 17:04
kagerou · 01/06/2022 11:16
I often get asked 'is she yours?' - which i didn't think much of until i realized literally no other mum friends got asked this!
Also people have more bluntly asked if she's adopted, where she's come from and one memorable elderly lady who told me all about her gay son and how he wanted to adopt 'one of those' one day
For context she's half Korean but doesn't really look mixed (she mostly just looks Korean with black hair and dark asian shaped eyes) whereas I am white
Also add to the list people who asked if she will 'lighten up' , people who asked how the Drs would be able to tell if her jaundice had gone when she was 'supposed to be yellow' , people who try to nickname her Mulan or say she looks like an anime character and the mum who sat by and let her kids pull their eyes up at her and 'pretend to be Asian'
There are more, I could go on but seriously just fuck people
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StageRage · 08/06/2022 18:25
A long time ago - but I got 'fancy letting a child that young get a tan'.
And "they're very dark, aren't they?" (reply: no quite light actually, given their heritage)
I am also very unimpressed by the warbling of 'mixed race children are so beautiful'.
What, all of them? All mixes, every time? And why - are babies of either one of the races NOT beautiful? Especially the racist implication that black / Asian etc babies with some white are more beautiful than those people not mixed. It is part of the fetishisation of black people. IMO.
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