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I have heard that Trini Red Women are usually more expensive and demanding than other Trini women, is that true?

Women Red

It is falsehood but it does have its adherents!

It can be said that 'Red Women' may have a higher degree of social awareness about how others view them and how they adapt to that perceived viewpoint vis a vis unmixed women of African origin, who may be of marginal level of education and of a certain social class.

Based on that concept we are leaving the Trini verson of consciousness to an Afro-Saxon English sense of propriety and projection of social desire into personal acquisition. If you want something, you 'pay' for it in various means per the 'less abundant' more desirable or precious mode of thought.

Red Women Caribbean / Tobago & Trinidad

Yeniseri:

So are you suggesting Trinis perceive "Red Women" as having class and the unmixed ones as not? If so, where that thinking comes from? I have seen many "Red" women with no class or education and many unmixed women with all the opposite.

Why are they more "desirable"? I am not a man but personally, I do not see much difference between a "Red" women and an unmixed one.

Women Red

Exactly!
Beauty is in th eye of the beholder. I personally find the concept of facial structure to be fascinating (as opposed to colour) so facial variety is fascinating to me.
Advertising shows us if we talk about something or show it off enough it becomes desirable so we are imbued with the sense that if the money is burning a hole in your pocket, why not get Red woman, keeping in mind, there will be different levels of what individuals perceive as a 'red woman'.
A red woman is mulata, fine, creamy skin, with some type of spoken fluency, dresses well and knows how to carry herself. Social class is a different matter so at this point I do not care. I actually prefer madrasi (blue/black as I may say) if I have to choose but I hope I can see beauty in all God's creatures!


forever stated

but I have no idea where it comes from. Societal social constructs, perhaps and I wil agree that an educated woman is an educated woman, regardless of social class or other affiliation.

Women Red

Yeniseri:

Like I met all the opposite "red" women. In any case, I wonder if this stereotype about them has anything to do with them being mixed with "white".

Here in the Caribbean (unfortunately) most people continue living in colonial times, therefore anything "close to white" may be perceived as *more* attractive, *more* eloquent, *more* desirable, even if that's not the case.

Red Women

Forever,

Trinidad has changed alot since I left.
Certain people lived in certain places so if somebody say ' she living Long Circular, or Cascade, or Goodwood Park, you generally have a picture in your mind the person to whom you are referring. Now everybody everywhere and that is good.

As a Trini, my definition was always different from the many since my father always looked like a foreigner in T&T (born in Barbados) and they always refered to him as a white man (European), which he does not ascribe to but he does have European ancestry. The colonial mentality, sadly, is still alive and blooming, to say the least!

Red Women

Those red ladies are trouble any way you take it. Yes, they have a stigma here, but of course it has nothing really to do with color, but more about attitude. The same attitude can be found in any 'color' you pick in a Trini woman, the difference may be that a 'redz' might just stand out more and so they get the brunt of tongue lashing, which really is unfortunate.

Red Women Trinidad & Tobago / Caribbean

That is the talk among Trini men? Define red woman because I see people these days pointing to all kinds of woman as red woman.