I mean, just the fact that a white girl with some lip fillers was able to leverage her plastic surgery into making lip kits when black women are ridiculed and ostracized for the exact same features is proof in the pudding.

Up where I live in the Great White Northwest, I’m just happy to meet any other HBCU grads. HBCU love all the way. Spelman C’08.

I’m a black person who has had other confirmed black people say this to my face. So yeah, it’s a thing.

Also, it’s really debatable if the book is better than the movie/TV show in some cases. Game of Thrones is a perfect example. George R.R. Martin really, really needs an editor.

Wait, what? That’s *exactly* what the articles “punchline” is.

You may already know this, but in the book it is very different - Atwood makes it clear that Gilead’s leaders are still racist fucks. All the brown people are Released to Elsewhere.

Easily persuaded by peers? AKA being a normal ass teenager?!

I’ve read a couple articles on this, and it seems to have nothing to do with the tech savviness of elders. It has more to do with general gullibility and desperation - every now and then, scammers will hit up someone who really NEEDS that money, and they believe it because they want to believe it.

I think the point is at least those are names of recognizable black historical figures. Who the fuck is Sterling?

Well, there is some truth in that women who aren’t eating enough may not produce adequate breast milk to nourish their child. The problem is they usually also don’t have access to clean water, and that’s far worse.

Even recent formula is not basically equal to breast milk. I’m a big fan of women doing that feels right for them and their baby, and formula fed babies turn out just fine (and flourish!) But even formula manufacturers concede that breast milk provided benefits that formula doesn't.

Because you need clean water to make formula, and malnourished poor women often do not have access to clean water. Plus, with medical care already limited in these settings, babies need the antibodies in breast milk.

Yeah, this is why I’m surprised it’s getting so much play and is in contention for “song of the summer.” It’s a pretty boring/mediocre mid-tempo R&B thing. I mean...it’s fine for the chill summer playlist but definitely not the feature.

That was the joke.

I mean, how are you going to be so obtuse as to acknowledge the importance of representation even in comics (“For any black girl, for there to be a black superhero, we picture them looking like us”) and in then in the very same breath be dismissive of the issue because Storm is a cartoon character?

They’ve varied, but Storm is usually illustrated as a medium-to-dark-skinned brown woman.

She’s also in Queen Sugar!

I agree with this in general. I’m annoyed when lighter-skinned actresses don’t realize the privileges they’ve been afforded them, but I still do feel a certain type of way when people want to bring it to their doorstep rather than the people who actually have systemic power in this.

She’s 26 years old. She’s not a child; she’s not even college-aged. She’s a fully grown adult who can presumably read and obviously has access to the Internet.

I have nothing to contribute on the kid front, but I am planning on going to SpelHouse homecoming for the first time since I graduated 10 years ago. People are always astonished when I tell them I haven’t been back to homecoming at all in the last ten years...I just never had the time or money until now.