Did anyone watch this year? I haven’t watched the awards in years and decided to tune in. I was extremely disappointed. I remember there was a time when it was a celebration of black culture and so many A list celebs were there. They used to have Beyoncé, Halle Berry, Rihanna and much more in attendance.

Now there’s performances from mediocre artists. ( As much as I enjoy Latto’s music, her performance wasn’t good. She was clearly lip singing and made no attempt to hide it). Z-list reality stars sitting front row (why was Natalie Nunn and Chrisean Rock there?) JT from city girls, cursing Lil Uzi Vert out and throwing her phone at him in the audience. Apparently this was over Ice Spice, idk 🤷🏽‍♀️ Cell phone clips of explicit and vulgar lyrics of Pound Town rapped next to gospel singer Bobby Jones. They were twerking right by him and he looked disgusted.

Patti Labelle not knowing Tina Turner’s lyrics during a tribute. Was there no rehearsal for any of this?! They kept blaming the writers strike for a lot during the show, since there wasn’t a host, there was lots of awkward moments and pauses in between. I’m just confused at what this has turned into. I hope Tyler Perry can resurrect the awards and bring it back to what it once was. There was some good moments. I enjoyed seeing migos reunite and honor take off, Coco Jones performances & seeing how humbled and grateful she was to win an award (she deserves it so much ) & Busta Rhymes being honored, but nothing else stood out to me.

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“Pretty privilege” is very different for us

21f While people are very nice to me and in a lot of situations & I can bat my lashes to get extra attention/help.

Majority of people are EXTREMELY threatened by me. Ik this doesn’t happen to wyte women bc they inherently assumed to be “damsel in distress” status. Therefore too gentle to cause harm (even when that’s clearly not the case)

I work in a corporate environment and last week I met a middle age multimillionaire wyte male. He was immediately negging me and obviously trying to one up me in the STRANGEST way. Being overly smug and arrogant. I knew it was happening in the moment but it was soo shocking. I don’t have time to discuss how money doesn’t fix insecurities, especially in wyte men.

But this one of many many interactions I have had with people (of all races) so many women talk about the good things of being conventionally attractive but noooo one talks about how: Women think you want their husbands even when you clearly DONT. Or their husbands are rude to soothe their gf/wife’s insecurity. Men who don’t have certain access to you treat you poorly. People assume you’re wildly social and have a ton of friends. People assume you have men beating down your door. People assume you are more intelligent (not good when you actually don’t have a clue)Etc.

Who else deals with this? How do not let this get under your skin to the point where you isolate? The older I get the more tiring it becomes.

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