# Yeah, Ben, America is freaking out because you're boffing a brown girl
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 4, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673 "2003-02-04T08:56:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/1 "2003-02-04T08:56:55Z")
oh PLEASE…
[http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/03/affleck.lopez.reut/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/03/affleck.lopez.reut/index.html)
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> Affleck added that the public fascination with their whirlwind courtship was probably due to “race and class.”
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> “I think it has to do with race and class, the fact that I am white and she is Puerto Rican,” he told interviewer Leslie Bennetts. “That’s what’s underneath, although nobody says it, because it’s not politically correct.”
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What a fucking idiot. Ben, your fascination with her “race” is your own. I feel very sure that the “fascination” has to much more to do with the usual: ludicrous amounts of wealth, ridiculous fame, fabulous good looks all around, and an obscene lifestyle. You are both fucking cartoons.
I’m sorry I can’t flay him more articulately, but his hopeless idiocy (already evidenced by his willingness to marry this moth-brained bimbo) leaves me stunned into stupidity. Apparently it’s communicable.
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### Author:  [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/2 "2003-02-04T09:02:55Z")
He was good in _Dogma_, though.
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/3 "2003-02-04T09:27:12Z")
‘There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us…….’
‘I like to be in Am-er-ic-a…’
Don’t write 'em like that any more…
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### Author:  [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/4 "2003-02-04T10:19:14Z")
Heh, yeah, they always make big deals out of those interracial celebrity marriages. I mean when Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were on every cover for two years that’s what I couldn’t help thinking.
Erek
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/5 "2003-02-04T10:53:49Z")
When they’re divorced after 3 months of marriage (if they last THAT long), I wonder if he’lll say something about race and class then.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/6 "2003-02-04T12:42:54Z")
The reason America is “fascinated” with this couple is because his lovely bride-to-be has sought out every magazine and every photographer in America to tell her “intriguing” story about how “just a girl from the Bronx” landed yet another husband. She’s a media slut. If she’d just stay home and shut up, maybe all the publicity would die down.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/7 "2003-02-04T13:33:22Z")
And so would her career. Say what you want about JLo…she’s not stupid.
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### Author:  [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/8 "2003-02-04T14:11:14Z")
I dunno about that…
[http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=587](http://www.sillygirl.com/pictures.php?PSerial=587)
Not to bright getting photographed picking yer nose and EATING it…
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/9 "2003-02-04T14:21:43Z")
That picture series has been debunked here already, though a search isn’t turning it up at the moment (probably because “JLo” is too short of a term…). If I recall the analysis correctly, various clues show that it’s just photos rearranged out of sequence in an embarrassing fashion.
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/10 "2003-02-04T14:22:23Z")
America wants to see you boffing a brown girl, Ben!
There’s gotta be video _somewhere._
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### Author:  [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/11 "2003-02-04T14:23:59Z")
Well, Ben Affleck was the _bomb_ in “Phantoms”… 😃
Think about it. It’s two extremely vacant movie stars. Neither one has been in touch with the real world (the place, not the tv show) for years. Affleck thinks people are freaked out by his interracial relationship, and Lopez thinks that it’s ok to marry men on a whim and divorce them faster than you can say “Fly Girl”. They have no grip on reality.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/12 "2003-02-04T14:31:19Z")
And her movies suck.
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/13 "2003-02-04T14:43:15Z")
Yeah, he should “stay with his own kind” and go back to Matt Damon . . .
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/14 "2003-02-04T14:46:01Z")
How is a girl named “Jennifer” from a middle class suburb really all that far, ethnically, from Ben Affleck?
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### Author:  [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/15 "2003-02-04T14:48:19Z")
Ole Ben ought to give a call to the last couple of husbands dumped by “Jenny from the Block” when they no longer suited her purpose for them. True love indeed. . .
:rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/16 "2003-02-04T14:51:10Z")
Okay, I could see how somebody might see a certain race issue, but how does class figure into this? Aside from lack of, that is…
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### Author:  [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/17 "2003-02-04T14:54:06Z")
I frequent Fametracker, and I haven’t seen anyone over there even MENTION that they’re an interracial couple. Wow, celebrities really don’t operate in reality at all, do they.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/18 "2003-02-04T15:02:01Z")
Race and _class_
Which one of them is high class and which is low class?
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/19 "2003-02-04T15:26:54Z")
Celebrity class and Non…
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### Author:  [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2003, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yeah-ben-america-is-freaking-out-because-youre-boffing-a-brown-girl/152673/20 "2003-02-04T15:44:35Z")
Puerto Rico is home to it’s own race? Hmmmm. To me it looks like one real-tanned white girl going out with a no tanned white boy.
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