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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Taylor looks like Olivia Munn to me. [/quote]

Agree!  She’s so pretty.[/quote]

And Garrett isn't good enough for her.  She needs a partner who can match her wit, not someone who couldn't come up with a movie better than Shrek.[/quote]
DP, but to be fair, my DHs fave movie is Shrek 2 so he found it hilarious. Maybe he just thought of his favorite movie and not one that matched with her  :lol: [/quote]

I only have finished the first episode but he gave off very racist vibes when he was so completely thrown that she was not white. And claimed she was calculating by not sharing it. Did he explicitly tell her he was white or did he just assume that was the default. Yuck. [/quote]
YES, this. He said that Taylor not revealing that she was not white made him think she was hiding things from him in order to craft a fake perfect image. So in other words, to him, being non-white is an imperfection, something he felt made her less-than, and he wondered what other “flaws” she was hiding. He’s somewhat redeemed himself in later episodes but to me that visceral reaction in that moment of shock reveals some foundational stuff that would be very hard for me to get over. [/quote]

I can absolutely understand a PoC having a hard time getting over that, as you said. However, as a white person who was raised in a mostly white bubble and had fewer than half a dozen PoC over to our house in my 20 years of living there, I would say it's okay for white people to grow as humans and become more open-minded. I would also ask you to realize it's a process rather than the flip of a switch. When I was friends with two black boys in HS, my mother often told them I was not home or in the shower when they called for me. I was discouraged from dating/marrying outside our race/religion with the reasoning given that "life is already hard enough." It took me years of being on my own, making friends, getting close enough to them to have honest discussions about race, for me to learn and grow. It was a process. [/quote]

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