I’m not shouting down his concerns about anti-Blackness. There’s a consistent thread here which is “you’re not engaging with the REAL issue he’s putting forward, and that’s just so telling” and it’s entirely frustrating because yes, absolutely, we need people talking about this. His experience is not a handwave.

But he…

The “contouring” looked like I was just dirty (how was the lighting at their studio so bad??).

Rationally I believe you have every right to feel however you feel about this enormous thing that has happened.

I honestly think his skin looks a little too good? Even skin tone, just dewy enough. It’s the eyes that make him look cursed. That and the lack of affect.

The lantern is beautiful! I am impressed with the macrame as well.

My parent’s upbringing in the 50's prove that the suburban whitewashing of American as scene on sitcoms back then was a total lie.

You might wamt to eat at a different mcd for a while. Or talk to the police about it.

Don’t tell me what i should do with my body, if you demand bodily integrity for yourself.

I would wear tulle skirts all day.

Yup, if you’ve been pulling the same amount of cash out of the bank monthly, that can go a long way towards establishing that you were this person’s tenant.

If you have a kid of tooth fairy age, Sacajawea dollars are a big hit. They’re cooler than a paper dollar and my kid has a little frame we got off a coin collector’s site and we pop the dollar in and write the date the tooth fairy came.

Two years out of college I lived in a cottage with my best friend and, during the rare evenings we weren’t both working, we watched a lot of Hallmark Channel movies while dipping Teddy Grahams in Funfetti. Just thinking about it gives me a headache now, but what I’m trying to say is that there is a time and a place…

Ah hahahaha. And that was a funny rape joke.