You’d think by now women on Jezebel would have figured out a way to sympathise with oppressed non-western women without wishing for their imperialist filled with western-ideals glory days back.

Huh! Maybe I need to update my History degree. We weren’t taught this shit in the 80's. Mostly we studied theories and papers based on the religious and light linguistic connections between Bantu, Ethiopian tribes and Dravidians, and studies on the Sudriod race as the sources on Proto Dravidian linguistics were still…

The Proto Dravidian theory is highly contested and even then, no historian has been able to pinpoint at the decline of the Harrappan Civilisation and there is no continuity with that decline and the Vedic civilisation. Some consider now that the Munda languages have more to do with IVC and the Proto Dravidians only…

Even in Asia, there are plastic surgeries women are increasingly doing to make their features less “Asian”. Skin bleaching ads are everywhere in South Asia, the Carribean and Latinx as well as African countries. Maybe this has roots in class, but pretending like colonialism is not at all a factor is just flat out…

Can this be about colourism instead of the poor rich female celebrity who is disliked by a few dozen people on internet blogs?

I know! It always tickles me to see white girls so desperate for a tan, when we are here told by everyone that our dark skin is undesirable.

Additionally, the OP also conveniently ignores all the fucked up plastic surgeries that are trending in East Asian to make their eyes bigger, and their noses sharper etc. This shit doesn’t happen in a vacuum. White Supremacy is everywhere.

Yeah. I was lucky that my mother completely forbade me from bleaching my skin as a little girl when I badly wanted to. I still did in secret, but her doing that made me a little more OK with myself. I’m so happy to see activists in South Asia and in Latinx countries fighting against colourism so hard, it makes me…

Um, if you study history or even bother to google, you’ll know it’s true. Ethiopians and Indians have had connections from the 9th Century A.D. Dravidians are historically mixed with Ethiopians. Some were brought to the Deccan as slaves in the medieval times (thought it wasn’t racial) and one of them famously rose in…

That is the truth, but are you just going to pretend centuries of colonialism that had its basis in the supremacy of whiteness doesn’t really factor into it? Sure, fair skin indicates that you’re rich and you spend your time indoors, just like bound feet did in China. BUT, White skin in media, in the culture and IRL…

I know some people are going to brush this away, but I cannot tell you how harmful these ads are, how pervasive and how damaging. Being Afro-Brazilian on one side & Indian on the other, I see this shit in both my cultures, and with a lot of my female friend and family circle and I still, at 45 years old, I still can’t…

I don’t think you’d know for sure how exactly you’d react until your father actually offs himself. Also maybe different people react differently to their father’s suicide.

Desi just breaking down in sobs and wailing about how his mother damaged him every time Marnie got mad at him is never not funny.

Eh-hua-dor. Her pleased-with-herself expression for saying it that way just made it funnier.

“I want my wedding look to be a nod to my cultural heritage, which is white Christian woman...” with the most clueless smile in the world. Made me laugh. so. hard.

I have experience being in a relationship with an addict, so I’m probably not being objective when it comes to how much I loved this episode. I cannot believe it made me have kind-ish and You go, girl! feelings for Marnie.

I loved this episode. Charlie’s dad’s death kind of explains the way he abruptly left Marnie. (Went out for a pizza, came back, and then said he never loved her and just left) I’m assuming the phone call about the suicide came when he was was getting that pizza. Anyway, maybe it’s because I just watched James White, I…

I think I shared this anecdote before, but my stepdaughter had us buy a Donald Drumpf piñatas for her quinceañera and we had folks having the time of their lives beating them up. Best party in ages.

I’m a french teacher haha so that’s probably it. I love that book. Shirley is pretty great too.

Shirley and Villette are pretty amazing.