Thread by @phl43

This reminds me of the time I had a date with an American girl I had met on a dating website and she started saying she had unorthodox political opinions, so I said "so do I", then she was like "cool tell me about them!", so I did and then she started crying.

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1353902811868618758

To be fair, she'd done her undergraduate studies at Wellesley, so I can understand why she was not prepared to meet someone like me 😂

I'm sure it would have been hilarious to someone who had followed the whole conversation, but on the other hand, she was sobbing in the middle of the restaurant and I felt kind of bad even though I had done nothing wrong.

Anyway, the point of this story is that, in my experience, people who tell you they want you to "keep it real" don’t really like it when you actually keep it real, lmao.

To be fair with that guy though, it’s possible that my ability to understand "real talk" is due to the fact that I’m actually Native American.

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/978760456184782849

Several of you want to know what set her off, so since I don’t want to repeat the same thing 10 times, here it is.

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1354224701107806213

Also, for the record, the date didn’t end like that. She eventually calmed down. It was still pretty bad though 😂

In retrospect I should have shamed her for being culturally insensitive on the ground that she didn’t respect the French tradition of not giving a shit about American political correctness.