Amazing, perfect song and even better if you know the backstory.

Really well written. As a fat chick, I experience this same thing when I travel. When I was in Paris, I didn’t realize OkCupid on my phone had automatically updated my location.

18 seems like a really, really small sample size.

Do you have work visas? Because relocating to Europe as an American without one is a pain in the butt. I’ve been there.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is the superior film though. It’s definitely my happening and it freaks me out!

Really? In Canada??? In the UK??? You find black American women have a reputation for being freaky? I must ask. I’m a Canadian and this would certainly be news to me.

It’s not black people per se, but Africans. I’m a (white) American living in Europe, and people are seriously racist towards African and Asian immigrants, but black Americans are just Americans. A black friend of mine got randomly attacked by some dudes in Amsterdam, who immediately stopped when he yelled at them in…

Sienna Miller is the Rita Ora of bland nondescript characters. Jane is multifaceted and dynamic.

I’m from a small town near Dublin, and most of my sister’s friends are in the recently-immigrated-African community there. I have seen exactly what you describe - but I think your explanation is only half the story.

These read like wonderfully campy gay porn scripts.

Yep but honestly there is no place that is keen on black people, there is not one western country i have been to in which black people are not treated with disrespect. The sad thing is that anti-blackness is everywhere.

A disheveled woman in slippers, jeans, and a winter fair isle sweater, JANE, reads these descriptions and despairs. She glances around her home, trudges to the stand of bottles by the window, and, with stunning elegance, opens and swigs from the illegal Cuban rum in one fell swoop. She ponders life in American society…

I agree with you in general, although my experience with England specifically was the opposite. Most of the men (and women) I encountered were very reserved compared to Americans. No one chats me up in America or England (my bitch face is spectacular), but I am a people-watcher and that was my take-away.

Yep also i have to add that here in UK black Americans are treated with more respect than black Brits, sometimes they can come away as if the UK does not have any problem with racism. But I do find it easier to date as minority in UK than US.

Consent. It’s as simple as a cup of tea.

Oh yeah. Satoshi Kanazawa is a real piece of shit. And evolutionary psychology is rarely more than an excuse to justify racism/sexism/fatphobia/etc. with some made-up bullshit about how life was on the savannah.

Yeah, that’s great. Good on you. However...

I have never liked Dominic West. Always found him incredibly punchable. Now, I have a real reason to hate him.