She’s referring to the lip and butt augmentation that many of the sisters have done. Black women have historically been mocked for their larger lips and butt, but of late, it’s become in vogue for those feature to appear on non-black women. I’m assuming their augmented lips and butts are not typical “Armenian” looks.

Where’d you get the open marriage thing from?

There were lots of protests this morning. Maybe eggless, but the city wasn’t totally friendly to him.

If only you guys were going to be up a little further north on the left coast!

Panama has a lot of black folk. I’m just saying, you can still root for everyone black and root for Panamá and avoid household jollof wars.

I admit, when I first saw the trailer, I thought it was about Watergate too. And then I never thought about or heard about the movie again until today, so I’ve just now realized that it’s not about Watergate.

Kinja’d.

Many. There are local chain ones and small one-off shops.

As a transplant to Sacramento, coming from major metropolitan east coast cities, I have to politely disagree with you. Sacramento actually has quite a bit of character. Every area of town has its different vibe. You into the hipstery thing, want to go to the newest boutique coffee shop - Midtown. Got money to spend…

Are you me? My partner and I get into this often. I try to offer solutions and I also ask a lot of questions to get to the meat of the problem before I offer up the solutions. Both of those are problematic (at times) unless he specifically requests brainstorming for solutions. I’m still learning how to navigate it.

I’ve been talking about the movie all day today (forgetting I actually have to do work at work). There’s the initial beauty of the movie. The well written dialogue. The representation of not just black actors/actresses but especially darker skinned actors/actresses. But there are just so many themes that the movie…

Joaquin Phoenix.

I love her! I truly expected her response to be a snarky, sarcastic jab, which would have worked because she does those well. It was refreshing, however, for her to just tweet out a well thought out teaching moment.

Kinky is a tricky word. I grew up with kinky being derogatory, but only because no one wanted kinky hair. Everyone I knew was putting as much chemicals in their hair to make it as straight as possible. Anything short of one straight was some level of kinky which = bad.

Yeah, I think for me, it depends on how they come across. Was it a simple “Your hair looks nice!”? - Cool. Or was it more “OMG, I just love how your hair does that. I wish mine would do that too!!”? - Please take a seat ma’am. But each person, and their reaction is different, and everyone’s entitled to how they feel…

I know there are people responding you saying that commenting is bad, but just as with everything, the opinions of black people are not a monolith. I, a black woman, with a kinky curly afro welcome comments and compliments about my hair. I find absolutely no offense to a simple comment without pandering.

So was 1992

I’m a frequent returner of things, though I’m not as bad as some of the stories on this thread. I don’t return things that I’ve already used, I’m just bad about not trying things on in the store, so when I try it on at home and realize it doesn’t work, I’ll return.

Wow! Damn. Kristin Stewart was my standard for non-acting, but it seems like I have to recalibrate.

I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen her act. Is she better or worse than Kristin Stewart?