Say It. I Dare You. - Page 2625

Saria · 08-23-2012, 12:53 PM

OMG, look at this beautiful rage:

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[Image description: screenshot of Facebook photo and its comment page. Photo shows white girl displaying mehndi on her hands. The relevant comment reads, “Love it! I like how it looks on people with light skin. The artistry stands out so much better.”]

hahahaha, **** YOU **** YOU **** YOU. yeah everything is so much ****ing better with or on white people! INCLUDING THIS! Indian bridal mehndi: sorry, desi folk, it’s nice that you came up with something so pretty, but white people just wear it better!

it’s a ****ing ancient practice described in the earliest Vedic texts, used during festivals and holy days and weddings. it’s a beautiful part of my culture that I love, something I linger over in old family wedding photos, something I’ve worn to temple and during festivals, something I plan to wear at my own wedding someday. and guess what, y’all? apparently, I WILL NEVER DO IT AS WELL AS WHITE PEOPLE.

I experienced an honest-to-God rage blackout when I found this ******** on my Facebook newsfeed this morning. It was in no way helped when I tried searching for mehndi photos on Pinterest, and like 50% of them were white girls.

I just cannot deal with white people who decide that other cultures are so ~COOL~ and ~EXOTIC~ and want a piece. You can look, but don’t touch, okay? Just don’t. I’m glad you think that our “henna tattoos” are so pretty, but before you decide that you want to wear my culture’s clothes and body art and jewelry, before you decide that we’ve created something worthy of your notice so you’ll just swoop in and lift it wholesale, wear my ****ing skin for a day.

Wear my brown skin. Listen to the ******** you hear when you wear saris and mehndi and bindis, listen to people calling you “dothead” and making fun of your accent and thinking your dad is a terrorist. Wear my brown skin under your ****ing henna. You want my culture, don’t ****ing half-ass it, you mother****ing white imperialist thief. Take all of it. Take the racism, take the hatred, take the ********. Take my wounded civilization forever marked by white imperialism and colonialism, my religion misrepresented and demonized by white missionaries. Take all of it, do you hear me?

Take all of it and live with it, live with it and love it alongside the pain and grief and fear. And then ****ing tell me how pretty you look in mehndi.

Goddamn white people. This is why we can’t have nice things. I literally cannot check my goddamn Facebook or **** around having some fun on Pinterest without some ******* reminding me of my place in the world, reminding me that even when my culture isn’t the object of outright derision and hatred, it’s going to be exoticized and stolen and “so much better” when it’s performed by people with white skin.

These same people will naturally totally fail to understand why you’re pissed off because how it can be racist when the perpetrator just really LIKES something, they’re celebrating your culture (by stealing it, after trampling it and shaming you for it), omg WHY ARE YOU BEING SO MEAN?!

redcelticcurls · 08-23-2012, 12:56 PM

Damn. That was awesome.

curlylaura · 08-23-2012, 12:58 PM

RCC, keep Buddy. His other owners didn't seem to give two hoots about him.

scrills · 08-23-2012, 02:55 PM

I love wrap dresses. I only stopped buying them because my friend said that's all I wear. dumb. They work on me.... Grey or brown.... I prefer the grey but the brown seems more versatile in the winter (with tights and boots)... hmmm...both or grey dress and a pair of trouser jeans

Fifi.G · 08-23-2012, 03:24 PM

I hate rape calls. I always wish I could give them a hug.

Worn out iPhone. Need I say more?

Saria · 08-23-2012, 04:09 PM

LOL:

Failed baseball player
Anti-police activist

Oh, Fox News

rouquinne · 08-23-2012, 04:35 PM

scrills!

BOTH!

Saria · 08-23-2012, 04:37 PM

Brown.
[Lucille Bluth]I don't care for the grey.[/Lucille Bluth]

SCG · 08-23-2012, 04:52 PM

Thoughts on this dress?

I just saw it on Ideeli and for once they have my size! I feel like it might be too dressy for this wedding, though... Ack! And of course the whole "flash sale" thing is causing a sense of urgency for me.

ETA: Effml. Never mind. I forgot that I have size 2 boobs, and a size 6 waist. >_>

CurlyEyes · 08-23-2012, 05:53 PM

so I still haven't finished my summer assignments but I've gotten into arrested development! I consider that a success.

kayb · 08-23-2012, 06:18 PM

I got stopped by a police officer yesterday. She (and her partner) thought that I was a learner driver, not because I was swinging from side to side in the road, but because of how close I was sitting to the steering wheel? Huh?

I usually pull my seat up because I feel that at the normal position that my mother drives doesn't allow me to really feel the pedals. My mother is taller than me so I will clearly need to address the seat.

According to the police officer, my arms shouldn't be bent when I am holding the steering wheel. Where the hell did she get that info?

SarcasmIsBeauty · 08-23-2012, 06:34 PM

I love how major Armstrong always takes off his shirt and sparkles

murrrcat · 08-23-2012, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Saria

She was playing a teenager on Buffy in that 1997 picture and recently she was still playing a teenager on Pretty Little Liars, I believe.
She was in Save the Last Dance and a bunch of other shows and movies. Someone was complaining that it was ******** that she was playing as jealous of "basic *****" Julia Stiles.

OMG THAT'S HER?! Lol...wow she must be a vampire...

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murrrcat · 08-23-2012, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kayb

I got stopped by a police officer yesterday. She (and her partner) thought that I was a learner driver, not because I was swinging from side to side in the road, but because of how close I was sitting to the steering wheel? Huh?

I usually pull my seat up because I feel that at the normal position that my mother drives doesn't allow me to really feel the pedals. My mother is taller than me so I will clearly need to address the seat.

According to the police officer, my arms shouldn't be bent when I am holding the steering wheel. Where the hell did she get that info?

Wait, you can get in trouble for how you drive(sitting and hand wise)

That s#%t cray.

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kayb · 08-23-2012, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by murrrcat

Quote:

Originally Posted by kayb

I got stopped by a police officer yesterday. She (and her partner) thought that I was a learner driver, not because I was swinging from side to side in the road, but because of how close I was sitting to the steering wheel? Huh?

I usually pull my seat up because I feel that at the normal position that my mother drives doesn't allow me to really feel the pedals. My mother is taller than me so I will clearly need to address the seat.

According to the police officer, my arms shouldn't be bent when I am holding the steering wheel. Where the hell did she get that info?

Wait, you can get in trouble for how you drive(sitting and hand wise)

That s#%t cray.

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Ain't a damn thing in the book about that. But she pointed out that the closer I am to the steering the more likely I am to be injured if the airbag is deployed.

Saria · 08-23-2012, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SarcasmIsBeauty

I love how major Armstrong always takes off his shirt and sparkles

A character who sparkles and doesn't suck!

I love all his talents passed down the Armstrong line for generations. I love that he's this huge dude with booming voice, and an extremely skilled, powerful badass yet he's just super nice and basically a big fluffy marshmallow of a man. I mean, in Brotherhood you learn that he's never been promoted past major because he was deemed too soft. So yeah, I really love that guy!

claudine19 · 08-23-2012, 07:05 PM

Well, I did it.

I watched a few minutes of Honey Boo Boo.

I'm glad I live with dogs.

Saria · 08-23-2012, 07:15 PM

KurlyKae · 08-23-2012, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kayb

I got stopped by a police officer yesterday. She (and her partner) thought that I was a learner driver, not because I was swinging from side to side in the road, but because of how close I was sitting to the steering wheel? Huh?

I usually pull my seat up because I feel that at the normal position that my mother drives doesn't allow me to really feel the pedals. My mother is taller than me so I will clearly need to address the seat.

According to the police officer, my arms shouldn't be bent when I am holding the steering wheel. Where the hell did she get that info?

newsflash, officer, sometimes petite women,( short legs) have to drive that way, in order to reach the pedals with their feet!.

KurlyKae · 08-23-2012, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by claudine19

Well, I did it.

I watched a few minutes of Honey Boo Boo.

I'm glad I live with dogs.

does your head hurt after all those brain cells dying? (I watched last week

)