Number 2 is good if you're not getting number 1, but the cost of college at a private school for me was the same as an in-state school with academic scholarships. Just a thing to consider.

Yeah pretty much this.

oh thank goodness; the other two responses to my comment made me feel like I wrote something incomprehensible.

What, CENSORSHIP IS BAD and FIRST AMENDMENT and whatever aren't convincing?

Ugh, I'm going to answer you seriously since maybe I am not getting my point across.

No one here is telling her that she has to fuck a minority dude in order to pass some kind of not racist test. People are telling her to examine her prejudices and maybe think about where they come from.

That's pretty much straight up racist, yeah.

What? Also why is opinion in scare quotes? I didn't forget shit; I'm talking about how culturally, minorities are not held as paragons of beauty, and thus it's easier for white people to dismiss them/not think of them as potentially attractive partners. I probably wasn't too clear, but I'm pretty sure the comment I…

What.

I used Anglo mostly to mean non-Latin@ but I can see how that's unclear. My comment was pretty simple but I also uh didn't mean it as an attack.

Basically, the dominant beauty standard for dudes and ladies is white. Anglo. European features. So we're taught that these features are desirable, and exposed to these features and ideals the most through the various media we consume. It's a racist system that you're buying into, whether or not you have any…

Nailed it.

Perfection.

My high school had an 'only natural colors' rule, which meant when someone finally noticed that I had blue streaks in my hair (took a semester and a half), I got suspended. The hairdresser my mom took me to could pretty much only strip the color out - I ended up with gross orangey-blonde streaks in my super long dark…

PUPPY PURSES though.

If you can afford it, try a sports-medicine physical therapist or a personal trainer who is used to working with people with medical problems. I've got a fuckton of health issues (including exercise-induced asthma) but working with a trainer and a PT helped me 1) learn how to walk in a way that greatly diminished the…

Are actors not creative?

Literally the most satisfying scene possible.

Cannot unsee Bandicoot Cumberbund as Julian Assange. Nightmarish.

I love the art but I can't handle the mythology they're giving her/the Amazons.