Never knew I was beautiful...until I moved to L.A.

I see where you’re coming from, but it seems as if the OP is saying that the things that (she thinks) black men find attractive about her are the things that she doesn’t find attractive about herself.

… which, written out like that, doesn’t sound like much an improvement, but there it is.

Good post.

You need to take the extra spaces between lines and move them so they’re after your commas.

It’s against the rules to call other people trolls in this forum, don’t do it again.

You don’t happen to be in a wheelchair, do you?

Around here, they’re more likely to inquire about your general welfare.

Ya got a big butt, that’s what.

FWIW, I am white and I am approached on the street by more black men than white. I like that the guys who give compliments feel free to do so as long as they are not making rude comments. Most of them won’t harass you if you are clearly not interested.

Google translate says “le fille” means “the girl” and “la fille” means “daughter”. Is this incorrect?

I do believe this is incorrect.

Never trust a big butt and a smile.

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Now you know.

Seriously OP, if people have never told you that you are “attractive” before you moved to LA then sadly, there’s probably a reason. Southern California has such a high standard for beauty that most of its leading actresses wouldn’t meet it unless they were famous. The standard is so high that most New York “10s” are West Coast “7s.”

They are probably just hitting on you and gassing up your head seems to them the fastest way to get into your pants. Sorry to be crass…but guys know that compliments work; that’s why most of us give them.

If you are attractive , then great. However, that really should be the least important portion of who you are as it is usually the most fleeting.

Maybe you’ve just been hanging around really sarcastic neighborhoods. :smiley:

If she wasn’t before, she is now. :rolleyes:

(See? THIS is where the smirk works. Nowhere else.)

Well this being the interwebs where people can be whoever they want to be, and the OP not having made a reappearance, s/he could look like this or this and nobody would be any the wiser. Or care, actually.

Shit! Gotdammit! Where’s the brain bleach!

Sowwy.

I share everyone’s skepticism about the OP (which is saying something coming from me), but I’ll try to come up with plausible ways the scenario could be true.

The most likely is already given above, the one about the guys just wanting in her pants.

The next I can come up with is that age old idea that the hottest women don’t get told they are beautiful nearly as often as those that are a step down. Everyone just assumes they know. Coming from a small town, there could only a few that would say anything, and she could discount them. However, in LA, she’d just be average pretty, and that’s exactly the point the point when people will comment.

And, of course, she might have started working out or dressing better, or otherwise be more attractive by the time she gets to LA.

Finally, there’s the racism angle. There’s the idea that a small town in the south might be racist and thus she would not be seen as beautiful, being not one but two outside races. There’s also the idea that said town isn’t quite that racist, but still has few black people, and she is only attractive in the stereotypical way that black people way. In that form, the racism comes from the stereotype that black men only like fat white-looking women.

Well, I’m not sure if the stereotype is racist, but I’m assuming so since I’ve only heard black comedians bring it up.

What’s your scenario for the OP not coming back?

Ha!