[video description: a tiktok made by @/callmekellin, responding to a comment that reads âwhat does being black have to do with being a stud âŚâŚ.â
the person in the video is a fem presenting black person in their car. they say âi love that you asked, lemme give you a little history lesson. full disclaimer, no hate to the commenter, iâm just giving everybody a bit of a debrief! now firstly, letâs talk about where the term stud actually comes from.
back in the days of slavery, when people still used to refer to us as animals, black people that were taller were known to be stronger because they could do more work. so down in the south, they started comparing us to horses. that then coined the term[s] studs for men, and stallions for females. like megan thee stallion. it was really big in the south. to compare us to animals.
but enough about the bleach brigade, letâs actually get back into the history. as you know, or if you donât know, black women were not able to enter the working class until well into the 1960s. before then, there was a small populous of women that were still working, even though they technically were not supposed to.
âhow was it possible?â these women would be dressing more masculineâusing binders in order to help put down their chests, dressing more in a male formâand because of the fact that most bleach bandits believed that we, as black women, were already masculine, they got away with it. thus coining the term, in the black community, âstud.â because all the dudes knew, but she was one of the guys. so what did it matter?
any time the chlorine community would come up to black people and be like âhey! is that a female working!?â the guys would just save her and be like ânah, thatâs a stud right there.â it was joke to them because they all knew. but as times changed and slang did too, the black community still keeps it close at heart. and yes, it was rooted in racism, but weâre taking it back for ourselves.
so once again, if youâre not a black, masculine lesbian that wants to be called a stud, youâre not a stud. youâre a masculine lesbian. even a butch if you want to. i hope that explained it!â end video description.]
