Why am I not feeling that crippling anxiety that I normally would feel when I’m the only woman of color in the room/bar/store/neighborhood??
I have just recently relocated to an affluent part of Long Beach, and it’s completely different from my ‘hood in West Long Beach. I’m often the only brown girl in many places; typically I’d go into panic attack mode.
What the fuck’s wrong with me? I should be feeling very uncomfortable living in a predominantly white neighborhood!!
YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?
YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY!
YOU’RE GONNA DIE!!
On this International Women’s Day, I find this awesome gem from Buzzfeed:
Awww, white men are oppressed? Here, let me go play the smallest violin for your victimized asses!
Which brings me to this:
Surely you jest, NOFX.
And on another note, a giant meaty FUCK YOU to Dave Mustaine. Do us metalheads a favor, and duct tape your racist asshole mouth and just shred. I didn’t pay $50 to hear your stupid souless ginger ass talk.
I think it’s time for me to completely disconnect myself from this reality.
Nothing wrong with dabbling in drugs, as long as you have enough self-control to NOT get hooked on them ^_^
And man, I really am due for a bender real soon. Mostly because I want to experience such a thing….
If you’re gonna hang with me don’t be a fucking creep and try to hit on much younger girls!! GROSS!!
While Axl Rose isn’t this fat anymore, he sure as hell can afford a freakin’ personal trainer!!
But alas, money cannot buy love. (No, hookers don’t count.)
I lived in Orange County from 1994-1999.
When I went to Los Alamitos High School those were the worst years of my life. I had been bullied for most of my life, and the bullies went from FOBby East Asian kids who thought I was a “stupid dirty Mexican” to being chased by white supremacists telling me to “go back to your country”. I was being harassed and hurt by the stupid racist jocks.
A friend of mine sent me this video; I didn’t know how to react because the kids who died of prescription pill overdoses were of the SAME extraction as the white supremacist bullies who stalked me when I’d walk home. (My family were the only people of color on our block.) The ones who ridiculed me because I wasn’t white, and wasn’t some rich hapa kid who denied their Asian mother’s heritage.
These bourgeois OC kids don’t know shit. They DON’T have problems like inner-city kids and never have to worry about when the next meal’s coming or if Dad will ever come back home. They don’t have to worry about getting shot or stabbed while hanging out with their friends. These Orange Curtain kids will NEVER know true struggle.
In other words, it’s quite difficult for me to feel any empathy for these kids.
According to Dr. Gabor Maté, addiction is mostly derived from the environment, NOT the drugs themselves. I fully believe it; the parts of Orange County that the kids came from aren’t exactly West Long Beach or Watts. Low crime rates and clean neighborhoods. But that doesn’t mean that these bougie households don’t have broken ass homes though….
People from the ‘hood have to be tough and we can endure whatever this world dishes out to us. Most of the privileged OC kids cringe when they see a homeless person, or even a non-white person.
I’m on the fence with this issue. Or, as my green bean friend would say, “Rehab is for white people. Family is much better therapy and it’s FREE.”
