Omg the sexual vibe is so strong. I feel like I should look away for privacy reasons

As a young woman with autism, I agree. I am angel baby princess and will always do the right thing when I know what the right thing is...

I'm Gen Z and I can read contracts- I'm 21.

I concur

Always keep moisturizing face wipes on your bedside table in case you are too tired to do a full routine :)

Anything with vitamin c in it will clear up the hyperpigmentation around the mouth. You may grow out of your acne, or figure out how to care for it. Make sure to follow dermatologists online and not skin care enthusiasts, and get your eyebrows professionally shaped once. Pay attention to how they shape it and then do that on yourself at home. I think growing out your hair a little longer and keeping it healthy will add some attention to you as you walk by in real life

Shape up the eyebrows, facial hair, and head hair, and get some clothes that you feel confident and masculine in. You should find some time to exercise and cook healthier meals. We don't see your teeth, but if you have a well-groomed appearance, that will take you from here to about an 8.5 without surgery

Always clean up your facial hair, eyebrows, and hairline and make it all nice and neat. Get some clothes that you feel confident and maculine in. You should find some time to exercise and cook healthier meals, but those first two quick fixes alone will do a lot for you, and I don't think you need surgery

No, wearing braids is part of it. Being disrespectful and ignorant about a culture while wearing something specifically from that culture adds a ton of insult to injury.

Because racist people wear them and say they're just a hairstyle.

So you don't live in America where white women will get braids and still say the N word?

Yeah I'm sure Western culture is under attack from appropriation and black people use it as a costume.

They're allowed to wear braids as a costume and discredit and make a mockery of black culture, sure. But I'm allowed to think they're stupid and ugly

Well, maybe if wearing plastic chopsticks in a bun became a huge trend among people who don't know the significance of the style, they'd be more upset. Oh, and don't forget, they'd also have to be a minority trying to preserve their culture in a white country, not a homogenous group that never sees foreigners do anything that subverts their religious beliefs. You also have to add that not only would they have to be the minority, but people outside of their culture that they're trying to preserve would tell people who used chopsticks offensively that it's okay to do that because it's just like a fork and anyone who gets offended is racist.

Alright, you got me. But I haven't heard any Japanese people getting upset over the disrespect of chopsticks and asking people not to use them. It's also a tool, a utensil, whereas using the hairstyle of a certain culture is really just about vanity

Rastafarianism is a religion with spiritual beliefs about dreadlocks. American slaves braided maps to the underground railroad into their hair. It is quite right.

This definition of dreads is a very loose one, considering vikings were explicitly stated to wear braids and have "snakes for hair". Since I've already mentioned that white straight hair doesn't lock without oil or product and the vikings were known for cleanliness, I have to naturally assume that they meant messy braids. It was never explicitly stated that viking ever had dreads from any historical sources. As I said, everyone can braid their hair, but box braids and dreads are of a particular significance and historical background. Indian people can also have curly hair, and their hair can naturally lock, as some of them have 4c hair and India can be just as far south as Africa.

Honey, white hair doesn't lock without an unhealthy amount of oil and product. Vikings never wore dreads. They had braids. That's very different. Not box braids, either

No one culture has actually claimed the hairstyle, but it has cultural roots in many predominantly black countries and cultures. As I said before, viking braids like a French braid and a box braid or a dreadlock are not the same thing, and white cultures can't claim that they've been dreading their hair as a cultural practice because it's not true. You've been French braiding hair and letting it get messy. White hair doesn't lock without oil or product coating the whole strand. Black hair will natural form free-form locks if the strands are not separated.

Asians don't involve chopsticks in their religions or use them as maps to escape slavery. You also won't break your fingers like you might break your hair when you manipulate your hair strands into tight coils that aren't it's natural texture or anything close

I would invite anyone downvoting me to actually argue a competent reason why white people are entitled to participate in the cultural practices of people groups who's culture they don't respect and aren't educated about.

As long as you are actually appreciating culture, then it's fine, but many white people don't educate themselves farther than "its a different hairstyle". They aren't actually interested in the Rastafarian philosophy to name one of many, and they aren't respectful to the people who don't want their culture to be used as an accessory to be worn for an event one day and discarded the next. Natural grown dreadlocks are a lifelong commitment to some people groups and carry too much spiritual, historical, and cultural importance for just anyone to be wearing them. I've seen many black people say that they would rather people who aren't part of their culture NOT wear them because there are too many people who disrespect the entire premise of their practice of braiding hair.

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He didn't say braid, he said dreadlocks. There are also big differences between cornrows and box braids vs viking braids. White people really have to force their hair into those styles, while those are the styles that keep coily and kinky hair healthy. Black people are not one culture, and no one is saying that only Nigerians can braid their hair and that Jamaicans can't because they belong to a different culture. Let's be honest with our definitions here.

I'm writing one, and she is tedious, brilliant, and emotionally exhausting to empathize with