I got asl’d a couple of weeks ago. Twice! On a mobile MMO, by teenaged boys. I very clearly and carefully explained that I am 37, no I don’t think we should chat off game, this is not appropriate and I KNOW this because as a teen I myself chatted with grossly inappropriate people 2-3 times my age. What can I say, I…

NonServiam, I want to gently point out that not all Saudis, Arabs, or Arab men hold the same prejudices by which the government forces them to live. Many, especially of the younger generations, are chafing against these restrictions just as the women are. The House of Saud allots power to the religious establishment…

Okay someone needs to invent an app you can press where if someone calls you like this it’s all angry Rottweilers barking, guns shooting, people screaming and rattle snakes buzzing while a weird, creepy voice is all “we know where you live, do you really want us to come over....” over the top of that until it just…

A/S/L?

It sounds like an equally creepy version of the ubiquitous obscene phone calls everyone used to get when landlines were the only phones.

Story time!

why are guys like this? i swear, i’m a couple of years away from genuinely hating them. think the ID channel will hasten the timeline even further

For fucks sake, is Tinder banned or not on the market yet in India?

Is it an artist right to paint whatever he/she wants? If that’s the case, then Lil Wayne can speak on the holocaust. I’m tired of privileged individuals talking about people of African descent and our “complaints”. We have been quietly saying the same shit for decades, and no one has really been listening since the…

“I am not programmed to answer your question.”

Oh wow, I like that. According to the caste system in 17th century Latin America, I’m parda, so that will be a fun one to try on them.

Well, let’s think about that for a moment...

History... lots and lots of it. A shit ton of it, really. History of being killed, enslaved, carted across the ocean in vessels that wouldn’t meet standards for transporting cattle, beaten, families torn apart, I’m sure you’ve heard of some of this.

But, let’s get to now,…

Why are bigots obsessed with black people? We own your ass.

Here is the problem with that argument:

Ok. You came on a message board in 2017 and called a person you do not know a “philistine”.

How in Snoop’s name is this person ungreyed ?!

I’m Indian - but am frequently taken for Cuban, Brazilian, East African, because of my dark skin and very curly hair. I’m also adopted (my whole family is Caucasian). It leads to some weird, weird conversations. Being ambiguous is a difficult place to be.

‘My mother’s side (New England English settler family with deep roots that settled towns on the Cape) always made me feel dirty, less, and I was referred to as the child with “a touch of the tar brush.”’

My mother’s side (New England English settler family with deep roots that settled towns on the Cape) always made me feel dirty, less, and I was referred to as the child with “a touch of the tar brush.”

As a light skinned POC, I can attest to much of what is shared.