Yeah, if you're volunteering that to a black person with no clear segue...it just seemed like the sort of thing I was best trying to ignore. I'm not going to fall out with someone over it, but it does start to stack up.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2012 5:31:09 pm PDT #20647 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Pix - Sep 01, 2012 5:33:50 pm PDT #20648 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Hm. Yeah, that seems suspect.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:47:28 pm PDT #20649 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm hard-pressed to find an explanation for almost any "post-racial" sort of statement that isn't ultimately racist, to be honest.
Ginger - Sep 01, 2012 5:47:43 pm PDT #20650 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:48:01 pm PDT #20651 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I mean, I guess it could just be really stupid.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 01, 2012 5:49:05 pm PDT #20652 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Be gentle with me, but would a reasonable possible subtext of "I don't see race when I look at you" be "You're not like the other black people"?
Yep.
That could be viewed as that person thinking that's a compliment. In which case, eww.
Also yes.
§ ita § - Sep 01, 2012 5:52:24 pm PDT #20653 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel like such a dope for never even considering that until reasonably recently, The idea of being the "good" darkie is just...yeah.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2012 5:53:59 pm PDT #20654 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sorry.
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:33:20 pm PDT #20655 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I need a new work tote bag/oversize purse/messenger bag I can take to work.
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aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 6:35:50 pm PDT #20656 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My neighborhood is overflowing with drunk college students tonight. And very loud fireworks. And a large moving truck which showed up at 10pm. I'm used to a certain amount of noise but this is ridiculous.