OBSESSION was so disturbing and uncomfortable because the casual selfishness of a man is a terrifying thing. Even a man you trust, even a man you think is your friend, you have no idea what autonomy they would steal from you if given the chance and that's horrifying
The best part about Hinge is meeting people in their 30s and getting to be, apparently, the first person they've ever tried to have a conversation with
a serious convo needs to be had about how height jokes regarding guatemalans is tired, not funny and honestly rooted in anti indigenous racism. why is shortness treated as the butt of the joke? these latino men worship european ideals of beauty and crave white adajcency.
โDuring the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.โ โ Dan Savage
I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but hereโs what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! Thereโs a processโฆ
being single in my late 20s is like ok this is mortifying and maybe im unlovable but when my friends do it theyre normal people living their lives that have just begun