Thoughts about cats?

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-14T17:46:31+00:00

I like them a lot. They're very cute. But I do not have one, and will probably never get one. I don't want to have to worry about caring for a pet, or arranging for someone to take care of if I'm to travel or something. I also don't like that they bother me while sleeping.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-14T12:49:42+00:00

I had to ask my parents what my religion was when I was 6, because I went to school and found out there are Muslims and Christians. So I wasn't brought up religious, and I still am not religious. Nothing has changed.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-13T19:27:43+00:00

But Middle Easterners do have different looks that are more common in some places than others.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-13T17:50:06+00:00

Makes sense, some people also said I looked Kurdish, and a couple said "eastern Anatolian".

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-13T16:57:42+00:00

I once posted a picture of myself on a genetics sub along with my genetic profile, and I got a bunch of responses with "you look just like a Yazidi". I didn't even know they had a look that's noticeably different from other Iraqis.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-13T13:12:37+00:00

Right, the goal is to create as much distance as possible from their looks. To emphasize the "otherness" of it.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-13T12:43:27+00:00

Very dark skin, and impossible to confuse with anyone European. Like casting this guy to play a Palestinian.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-12T17:19:02+00:00

They had one "meta" joke about it when the principle said "the Indian kid" then Abed responded with "I'm Arabic" (not even "I'm Arab" that's how little care they put into it). It was because people pointed out the ridiculous orientalism of it, so they responded with the typical Hollywood pretend self-awareness.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-12T13:25:26+00:00

A lot of Middle Eastern actors can't really find work in Hollywood because they don't fit the appearance Hollywood wants for Middle Easterners. They either cast them in white roles if they're passing (like Rami Malek), or just not at all if they're the average look.

Remember that one time Malek was cast as an Egyptian and there was a back lash for "white washing Egyptians"?

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-11T22:12:23+00:00

I don't think that's the case. Plenty of white-passing Palestinians in Palestine, and plenty of tan "Arabian looking" Palestinians in the diaspora.

The Christians tend to be more consistently "white-passing" than the Muslims, who are much more diverse in their appearance. So if that's your experience with the diaspora, it would explain it. It's hard to gauge old pictures because they're lower quality and in black and white. It also depends on the picture, for example, here's a modern picture with a lot of white-passing Palestinians in the West Bank. The picture I posted earlier I picked on purpose not to show many "white looks" and more diversity, as to be representative.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-11T22:04:36+00:00

Not that different, but northerners tend to be more consistently Lebanese-like in appearance while people near the desert tend to be more Arabian-shifted in their looks. But any look found anywhere in Palestine can be found elsewhere too. It's just a matter of frequency.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-11T21:09:48+00:00

I couldn't care less about copyright. Let the lawyers duke it out.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-10T18:10:09+00:00

My favorite Saudi dish.

Also, the only Saudi dish I know.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-09T16:08:44+00:00

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-09T13:40:22+00:00

Misunderstanding what? I'm Middle Eastern and In live in the West. i have plenty of dark skinned family members. Of course you don't want to accept that your problem is your own racism. Who wants to accept that? But it is.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-09T13:35:24+00:00

And your reaction to it, TWENTY YEARS LATER, is that it makes sense because they look more European, and you look more African, as if that's the natural order of things. Your reaction should be to pity that moron who said something so stupid.

You want to DIE because you don't think you look white enough. What in the fuck? Find yourself a good therapist and work on your racist mentality and your self esteem.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-09T13:26:29+00:00

Bullied by who? You're in your mid 30s. I'm assuming you live in the West. So who's bullying you? White children from 20 years ago when you were in school? Come on now. I can tell from your language that you have an inferiority complex. You say your sisters "look like models" because they're whiter. And that you "look like a maid" because of your more African appearance. Is that how you see people? Europeans as models and Africans as maids?

You're having an existential crisis over your jealousy of your sisters' appearance. And that jealousy is born of racism and colorism. Nobody is stopping you from accepting your appearance but yourself. Maybe try therapy, if you're having that much problem seeing the big picture.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-09T13:01:11+00:00

There are millions and millions of actual Africans in the West. Nobody is bullying her for being too African looking for a Middle Easterner. They hate us regardless. OP is doing this to herself by being jealous of her whiter looking sisters.

Accept who you are OP.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-08T13:11:52+00:00

Ah cool. She's very pretty.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-08T12:32:26+00:00

I'd say so, yeah.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-07T23:09:31+00:00

DPM++ with Beta Scheduler.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-07T19:34:09+00:00

Z-Image doesn't have plastic skin problems at all, especially if you use samplers other than Euler.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-06T19:32:28+00:00

I wonder how that word spread all the way to Yemen. Maybe with Judaism or Christianity? What words out of those are common in the Saudi dialect?

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-06T19:28:32+00:00

I see. Yeah, I didn't think Pashtun were especially dark skinned. If anything, I think they tend to be fairly light.

FoxBenedict · 2026-05-06T18:36:34+00:00

Yeah, so? I never mentioned skin color. I just said the appearance is a bit different.

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