It’s because America is obsessed with race, and has systematically attempted to demolish black economic power from the foundation of the society, that people may choose to shop this way.

I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.

I’m trans and, until I started HRT, had very little access to my emotions. I would desperately want to cry, and just would be unable. Or I would know I was supposed to be having some kind of emotional reaction to something, and just…wouldn’t.

Very very soon after getting my hormones straightened out, I discovered that I was having emotions in sympathy with characters on tv or in movies. If I was sad I could actually cry for a bit and process the emotion rather than having to channel it into anger or physicality. It was like living in color instead of black and white, this whole arena of human experience I’d read about but hadn’t ever really felt.

I’ve heard the same from trans guys as well; they didn’t ever feel like their emotions made sense until they got on T.

My now-ex reacted to this, first with concern, then with contempt.

Christensen isn’t a bad actor (he was great working with Hank Azaria in Shattered Glass). Nobody could have saved that direction and dialogue.

The getting laid part is the best part imo, but you have to want it badly enough to wade through some shit.

It’s funny I’ve had interactions on dating sites that would be unspeakably vulgar in person but somehow come across as gallant in that context.