bro to bro: if you like skinnier girls, get yourself a skinny girl. if you like thicker girls, get yourself a thick girl. if you like fitness girls, get yourself a fit girl. you are entitled to your own preferences.
but what you are not going to do bro, is date a girl who is not your type and make her feel inferior to other girls.
I’m a materialistic woman. I like the nicest things, and I want to be able to afford whatever I want at any time without flinching. ‘I want it, I get it.’
I’ve known my wife for 14 years and I don’t think I’ve ever had to forgive her for anything. You don’t have to settle for partners who hurt you over and over
We heard Nandi loud and clear. Her point was that Black men deserve grace because the system crushes them hardest: no money, no government support, 400 years of stacked odds, and constant pressure to succeed.
Our point is this: that same system hits Black women just as hard, often harder. Patriarchy. Single motherhood. Unpaid care work. Higher poverty rates. Sky high GBV risks but when women survive those exact conditions through informal hustles or sex work just to feed their families, they are shamed. Insulted. Called slurs. Told they have no dignity.
So men deserve grace for trying, but women are humiliated for trying to survive? You cannot demand grace from women while denying it to them in the same breath. That is selective empathy.
Grace is not a one way demand from women to men. It has to be mutual. Otherwise it is just another burden placed on the group that is already carrying the most.
the benchmark for black manhood in south africa is “trying”
all that black men have to do is try and the will be showered with grace.
black women have to be understanding, forgiving, patient, kind, graceful, perfect.