The Allure of Lori Harvey
A Social Analysis of the Modern Black Feminine
For the summer of 2022, Ms. Harvey’s social life is trending, due to her sudden and abrupt ‘ amicable’. break up with Michael B. Jordan, who’s also known as baby Denzel and one of the most eligible black men in the world.
We can speculate that the relationship was fake, real, MBJ was played or trying to rehab is image or Lori just didnt want to settle down and we’ll likely never know the real reason but we can unpack the mysteries of Lori’s femininity, allure and figure out why she is so polarizing, equally admired by black woman & despised by some black men socially. But first ? We need a little background of course!
Lori Harvey is the quintessential black American princess + socialite of the mainstream urban & hood collective. The adoptive stepdaughter of Steve and Majorie ‘Lady Heroin’ Harvey born into one generation of black wealth. Her biological father was a famed drug kingpin from Memphis who managed to snag her mother. Majorie was also a legend in her own right on the streets, known for her beauty, an lavicious and lavish tastes, she courted and married famed drug kings and pimps, in the underworld. Majorie was described as beautiful, intense, ruthless and hypergamous. There was no doubt in Majorie’s mind that she would make it to the top and she didn’t care how she got there. Majorie narrowly avoided going to prison, after being investigated by the FBI and moved on to higher pastures setting her sites on and marrying comedic legend Steve Harvey.
The glamour of a famous stepfather and dangerous mystique of her mother past has rubbed off on Lori, as it appears she intends to follow in her mother’s footsteps by doing the same, marry well.
This lends Lori an incredible amount of curiosity and admiration from the black feminine collective. Her personal style, diet and dating choices are all up for social inspection and which she seems to enjoys and utilize to her benefit. Socially in the black collective, it’s not looked upon favorably for black women to openly date hypergamously or in her own self interest. The black woman is expected to be completely self sacrificing to the detriment of herself, other women, black men and the mental and social health of the community anworld at large. Historically the black body has been seen as hypersexual culturally and unfortunately black women aren’t free from this archaic assumption today. This hyper sexuality when paired with two hundred plus years of systemic racism & psychological terrorism has created a confusing and hostile climate the social and mental health of anything feminine in the black community. Black women are consistently expected to have lower standards in terms of a partners whether it be mentally, spiritually, physically or financially and constantly defeminized or robbed of their individual respect, sense of person and womanhood. These toxic ideologies, have seeped into the blacks social structure and in the mainstream social collective, terrorizing and harming the social health of both black men and women, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
Laurie represents a new breed of Black American women who have grown tired of a horrible status quo, hope for better & who might see fractions themselves in her. She may not know it but Lori actively carries hope of shattering toxic glass ceiling and creating a better example for black female collective and maybe even the mainstream world.
Lori is bold and actively hypergamous, dating some of the wealthiest black men in the community and making a clean break when things don’t work out. For a black woman this is considered to be highly unusual and makes her intensely polarizing and hated by certain groups of black men, women and the community who aren’t used to change and are comfortably brainwashed by status quo.
Lori represents social change and a sense of modern evolution within the mainstream black feminine collective. Change is not easy and this new development is extremely scary to many, for a variety of reasons. For some groups of men, this means having to put in more effort when finding a sexual partner or mate and losing certain benefits they felt previously entitled too, for outsiders this can also mean possibly losing access or the interest wealthy or high status black men financially or sexually that they also feel entitled to, it could even threaten centuries old racist structures which are were intentionally created to keep the community unstable and foster hostility via gender wars. This makes the dating scene within the community obviously toxic. Black women aren’t really given the structure on how to go about dating properly or seek out quality mates, which in turn creates a horribly cycle of toxicity. For some black women this has led to hyper paralyzed state of toxic independence, which has been harmful to both black men and women, something that can be further researched by taking the time to read the Willie Lynch letters. It’s important for black women to break this cycle which has been enforced since the beginning the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, because it will actively promote better social health for both black men and women.
Lori also fits a certain beauty standard, which can be argued to fit Urban or Eurocentric ideals. She’s moderately brown skin, gently relaxes her hair making it wavy/straight, an has a slim nose and full lips. She’s relatively fit partaking in Pilates, a bit of precarious dieting and her shape varies between lightly petite and curvy. Her resources give her access to a variety high quality skin care, plastic surgery and beauty treatments. Despite this, her beauty looks natural and feels more easily accessible. She takes a considerable amount of care in her looks and it’s certainly strategic on her part because she’s hyper aware of the beauty privilege and the visual nature of men, which she works to her benefit. All of these things somewhat work in her favor, but also can lend way to her being ripped apart socially, because beautiful brown skinned black women aren’t often taken seriously or well respected within black collective, without extremely well credentialed educational background or status, and this may still never be enough. She walks a precarious tightrope of gender and colorism. There is no way of knowing for certain if her behavior would be considered less controversial and tolerated slightly better if she was even lighter of skin, like the semi-controversial musican and queen of hip-pop n rnb Doja Cat for example. Colorism can be is fickle and randomized symptom of systemic racism, which is aggravatingly hard to gage.
Lori’s beauty, background and dating style seems to resonate mainstream black feminine collective who desires to find a new way to counter the deliberate defeminization of the black woman socially. This brings her a degree of considerable allure and magnetism and makes her a interesting woman to watch in the future.
How will it all end ? Will Lori finally find the right man for her ? Only time will tell.
In the mean time, let’s keep our eyes peeled n stay tuned. If there is one thing we can count on it’s for Lori to keep tongues wagging, while putting on a great show!
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