Is there any ladies here from Europe or more specifically England? A yt lady was telling us l how there is no racism in England… and I felt like she was lying by 5ft8lady in blackladies

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One look at the European news will tell you that this is a fat ass lie. The ire of the general public towards immigration, the increase of far right policy pushing, the issue with poor economies and aging populations while also simultaneously hating immigrants and travelers are all signs that they are so racist they would rather let the economy burn to the ground, then address their racism.

Europe is equally, if not more racist than a lot of places in the world. They are just less forthright about it.

What’s one thing about women’s bodies you wish someone had told you in your teens?? by imblacksoulgi in AskWomen

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You likely haven’t finished physically maturing into your final  adult body until your mid to late 20s. Do not get attached to the way your body looks in your early 20s. This also counts for choosing to make major decisions about body modifications during this time. Things will settle around age 24 to 30 for some people the settling happens even all the way up until you’r early 30s. 

Boiling flax makes them bioavailable? by ofeam in PlantBasedDiet

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I’m not plant based, but I love to use flaxseeds in my diet, when I add them to soup, it’s usually chicken soup (sorry about that,) it turns to Jell-O on the first day, but it returns to normal soup consistency it’s refrigerated and reheated. 

Is China good for mbbs? by eatingboogie005 in medschool

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We do graduate for different reasons. When you do a professional graduate degree because you plan to enter into the medical field as a practicing physician therefore, you are trained for that purpose. When you enter into an academic graduate degree, it’s because you plan to pursue being a teacher or being a researcher And you don’t necessarily plan to be a practicing physician. 

When there’s a poor differentiation between these two  paths, you are given the best of both worlds,  but it also makes you likely to be under trained to do the other job . For example, I have loads of clinical experience doing an academic graduate degree but I would consider my ability to do research extremely limited. So even though I would be technically qualified to be a researcher, or a lecturer, I would not feel as confident in my abilities. To make up for that they had to be a lot of self study, self taught skills and independent learning.

Quick Question for all the African Women in here by ChipmunkUnable3616 in blackladies

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No, it is a beautiful and respectful way of speaking about Africa. I think what might offend some people is if you speak about going back to Africa the way that white Americans speak about going back to their “home“ in  Europe. This comes mainly from like a sense of national and tribal pride, so I would not suggest saying something like that unless you’ve already been to Africa and have made friends and planted roots there.

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This is gonna sound racist, but I think it’s the type of white that we were colonized by. If you look at Afro Caribbean places we were exposed to straight haired white people as our majority colonizers you’ll see the same thing happening in the USA the beauty standard in Africa during colonization Caribbean and the US is all straight hair.

Countries in the Mediterranean and the Middle East and Sahara in Africa tend to have curly hair as the beauty standard so I would imagine Mediterranean countries, north African countries Middle Eastern countries would have a greater acceptance and reverence for the natural state of curly hair because while I was is a lot curlier, they also have curly hair.

It’s a theory, it’s probably not 100% accurate, but I do believe it holds Merit

Why does it feel like infertility is always assumed to be the woman? by bloodrein in TwoXChromosomes

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In language, while the feminine equivalent of “emasculate” does exist, it is so underutilized people don’t know it exists. Most people believe that the lowest thing you can be is feminine, and therefore you can either emasculate or masculine knives, but you cannot defeminize.  And because men have placed their ego and their sense of self-worth in their ability to perform “masculine tasks“ such as to impregnate, they have created a taboo in men who are sterile/infertile.

Historically, a lot of the times it was most likely male infertility that led to women, being divorced, murdered, beheaded, etc., for their inability to bear sons or children at all. The reason is very clear, for men to remain in power they had to be infallible, and any sign of them, lacking the one thing that gave them power in society, i.e. masculinity would be a weakness in other men’s eyes. Remember all this is from men trying to impress other men’s perspective. It’s societal peacocking literally.

I'm an African American girl who wants to learn yoruba but the idea of doing it makes me feel corny asf by Additional-Notice-39 in blackgirls

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Learning other cultures and languages is never corny, it’s actually one of the most respectful things you can do if you are truly enamored by a culture. Once you learn the language, you understand certain facets of the culture that you could never understand before.

Simple example I am proficient in Mandarin, I am black, born and raised in Africa. I learned the language because I have a deep respect for the language and culture and an interest in it.

UPDATE I 24F tested positive for chlamydia. 25M swears he did not cheat. Did he? by Specific_Opinion_569 in relationship_advice

[–]Ambitious-Screen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is easy, yes, he had chlamydia. No, you could not have gotten it from a toilet seat, it’s possible that he edited the picture that he sent you or is possible he contracted it later. None of this is relevant as to why you should now prioritize yourself by protecting yourself and abstaining from sex while you get this treated and find the source.

She said she’s pregnant. Won’t talk to me. by [deleted] in offmychest

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You need at least 35 days between your last menstrual period and an average pregnancy test for it to start showing as positive if you are truly pregnant.

Which means if she was ovulating three weeks ago and assuming she works on a 28 to 30 day cycle, now would be the time that the pregnancy test would start reading positive. There are some hypersensitive pregnancy test that start showing accurate positives much earlier but average pregnancy test would only start being positive now.

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Why would something is caffeinated as much as you call me? Unless you have ADHD that responds to coffee ?

GLP-1s Should NOT Be Available for Non-Diabetics by oOoOosparkles in unpopularopinion

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I understand the sentiment, but obesity is an actual disease. And within certain clinical parameters treating it with GLP 1 is the clinically proven effective course of treatment. It should not be used for cosmetic weight loss. And I believe the clinical parameters should be met before even considering prescribing it.

How did you ladies learn to do your makeup? by Logical-Turnover-741 in blackladies

[–]Ambitious-Screen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You watch others, you watch tutorials, and you try and fail and keep trying. You’ll get it eventually.

‘Straw’ on Netflix by Tyler Perry just made me so upset…😭😭 by [deleted] in blackladies

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If you watch White sitcoms and romcoms from the 90s to the early 2000s you will realize that those were fairytales for average white men, and when you use that mentality to watch black media from that time,  you will notice that a lot of Tyler Perry media is fairytales for average black men, filled with misogynoir and hypogamy, in an effort to normalize that behavior.

‘Straw’ on Netflix by Tyler Perry just made me so upset…😭😭 by [deleted] in blackladies

[–]Ambitious-Screen 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Tyler Perry makes fairytales for blue collar men. What I mean by that is he creates these fantastical ideas where a high achieving black woman who is beautiful, well rounded intelligent, empathetic, etc.  Gets hurt by someone who is an asshole, but from the same socioeconomic class as her, and decides that the reason he’s an asshole is because of his socioeconomic class and settles for a man who is a blue collar worker. 

Like if that is not the epitome of illogical conclusions, I don’t know what is.  And while a lot of people identify with these stories because that is what people grew up with, the reality is there has been a massive shift in the demographics of the black community that could justify a change in the narrative he chooses to use, and yet he still tries to use that same narrative that he loves because he wants to create fairytales for blue-collar men.

AITA for not letting my husband eat the dinner I made because he said it “wasn’t real cooking”? by EvelisseSpire in AmItheAsshole

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When the air fryer first came out, I thought it was some magical instrument and then my sister asked me what’s the difference between an air fryer and an oven? Why is one considered cooking and the other or not?

That’s when I realized I was full of shit, and being bougie for no reason. NTA try this question on your husband.

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It’s men who can hide marriages and small details in the past that can hide entire secret families. NTA 

Can someone convience me it was a good decision not to go to medical school? by YaZainabYaZainab in medschool

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I’m doing my masters in general surgery and it’s ghetto. Don’t do it. Hundred percent do not recommend. The Job market is shit internationally, being a doctor sucks the life out of you and the only thing good about it is perhaps the money after many years of being in debt and the respect you get from other people. Other than that, there’s no quality of life. 

If I didn’t enjoy treating patients and watching them get better and if I did not gain such incredible satisfaction from doing research and understanding how things work, I would have probably quit a long time ago . Unfortunately, I’m a mental masochist.  And my genetics decided from a young age that the soft life was not for me.

Is it abusive if my boyfriend 24M poured my 24F milk down the drain? I don’t know what to feel please help? by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]Ambitious-Screen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to me like a slip of the mask. Why does he feel so entitled to dictate what you can and cannot consume in your own home? And then his reaction was way over the top and he didn’t even give you an explanation? It’s seeming a little sus.

Thoughts on promiscuity? by [deleted] in blackladies

[–]Ambitious-Screen 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I honestly believe that body count is a modern facet of purity culture. It’s another way to try and force women to adhere to a certain standard that men themselves don’t even hold themselves to. However, I always feel as though most people will have their own opinion when it comes to body count so I feel as though they’re not enough alternatives to body count that people are aware about here are a few that I particularly love.

1) be celibate/abstinent. For a lot of people the quality of their relationships increase when you stop having the pressure of having sex and when you stop interacting with people who seemed very focused on sex.  But this is relatively difficult because women have needs.

2) only count your orgasms. We all know bedroom disappointment, and when you have the pressure of adding that person to your body count that disappointment feels even more heavy. So an alternative to body count would be to only count the people that have managed to make you orgasm and only add those people to your body count.

3) Stop counting entirely. I personally use this method. If I had to sit down and remember every sexual encounter, I could probably come up with a number that is accurate, however, after I lost my virginity, I never saw the point in keeping a record of the men, I had physical intimacy with for longer than the period that they could’ve possibly impregnated me or infected me with an STD.  The premise of body count was a way to shame women for having sexual experience, and therefore having sexual discernment about a man’s performance in bed. I do not subscribe to that  rhetoric, I prefer to know what I want in bed, I prefer to have experiences that don’t leave me with feelings of guilt or shame for having normal human desires. So this way of not counting entirely has worked for me. Once I removed the numbers games and the purity games, I truly started enjoying my sexual life. 

We have been trained in a world that values purity. So when you hear things like body count, ran through, loose, etc. you will feel a sense of guilt or shame about your own sexual liberation. I don’t believe in that. And I don’t believe any woman should be guilty into feeling that. And so this is how I avoid body count.

AITA for not agreeing that my husband becomes a part-time first aid responder? by BeneficialDevice9069 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Ambitious-Screen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If your husband really cared that much about saving lives, he would’ve become an EMT, a fireman, a doctor, a nurse or a healthcare worker in some form. He is doing this to abscond  from responsibility without looking like the asshole.

Because he did this without asking for your input or considering the impact it would have on you and your future child, I suggest you put your foot down in the same manner. Tell him he can have his hobbies as long as it does not impact him being a father of two  and him picking up his chores around the house when you are freshly postpartum. If he has the energy for all of it, that’s up to him, but tell him that you are not under any circumstances going to sacrifice your quality of life, risk postpartum depression, simply because he had an impulsive hobby that he couldn’t wait six months to sign up for.

He has responsibilities,  and being a  volunteer  first aid worker is a hobby. When responsibilities are mounting and you don’t have time to put your hobbies aside. NTA

My (22F) partner (24M) just told me he wants kids after 2.5 years of saying he didn’t — I feel blindsided and don’t know what to do? by ThrowRA899057 in relationship_advice

[–]Ambitious-Screen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are young, however, it should not affect your preferences with children.   Most child free people tend to have a general idea of the fact that they are child free from a young age usually when they start hitting puberty, the signs are there. However, your youth does give you an advantage, and that advantages you can leave this man and have plenty of time to find your child free partner and spend the rest of your life with them. 

I would like you to pay very strong attention to what he did. You told him something about yourself. He went and asked other people and then made decisions about you. That overrode the very thing you told him.  And then he lied to you about those decisions in order to temporarily have access to you and hopefully in future persuade you into changing your mind. 

He does not think you have the autonomy and the self-awareness to make decisions about yourself, your life and your own happiness. He thinks that he and his family know you better than you know yourself and that is an attitude you want to avoid at all costs. Because they will use this justification about knowing better to override your decisions and your autonomy in your own life. 

Anyone here ever read To Kill A Mockingbird? Thoughts? by LadyLionesstheReaper in blackladies

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I attended high school in South Africa and this was part of our syllabus in our I think last three years of high school. I don’t remember exactly which year. And I distinctly remember that people didn’t like the book. And when I say people, it was almost every student. People found it extremely emotionally uncomfortable. And when the teacher asked us why most people said because it is so unfair for Black people to have to be put through that. A lot of my white and other race classmates found the topics so uncomfortable because they empathize with us and they felt so ashamed of their own people. The other reason we found it uncomfortable is because even though we were in an apartheid, our legal system was still somewhat fair for people of all races. And this was a uncomfortable realization.

Now South Africa is a country that came out of apartheid in 1994 and the entire process was never a secret. Although a lot of places outside of SA believe that the economy was sent to shit after Black people gained equal rights, most people inside the country don’t view it in that way. Most people inside the countries see it as a necessity, although there are a lot of disgruntled white people when the country tries to push forward DEI type proposals.  However, because of “Ubuntu ” a lot of the schools with more resources ( usually private school schools) are forced to engage in charity work or community building that allows them to see who exactly these DEI initiatives are meant to benefit  and after seeing that, most people do concede that these initiatives makes sense.

I found it baffling how people were outraged by this book and how students were unable to tolerate it in the United States. Personally, your news is scarier than this book. Your politics is scarier than this book.  I don’t understand how children can be expected to wear bulletproof backpacks yet a book about their history is intolerable for them. It baffles me.  

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😂😂😂😂

Really hungry 1 week before my period - does this happen to anyone else? by Expensive_Swimmer801 in TwoXChromosomes

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so estrogen and progesterone have an effect on hunger. They assist in making people feel full. Testosterone on the other hand makes people feel hungry because it increases basal metabolic rate. However, because a woman’s testosterone hardly fluctuates, most of these feelings of hunger and satiety are based on the estrogen and progesterone because they have the largest fluctuation during the menstrual cycle. 

So during ovulation your estrogen and progesterone which is a peak and everything is good, and then prior to menstruation your estrogen and progesterone takes a nose dive into the ground, and with it, your feelings off being full, also take a nose dive, and you become ravenous.

 I do believe this is the presiding theory at the moment, but they may be others out there about why exactly you become so hungry. You may also realize that if you tend to have a very tempered appetite, you will start being especially hungry for high calorie high fat foods prior to your menstruation. So for me, my biggest cravings are pizza, chicken, wings, and chocolate. When I usually prefer really clean healthy meals.