She says certain things and then hides behind the veil of "cultural difference." I almost cussed her out. I know I probably should not be affected by people who mean less than zero, but damn it if I don't have feelings. I think what made things worse is that my co-workers found it amusing. I personally found it degrading. She pretended as though she was complementing me by saying I look like "Precious." Yeah, right. Big I maybe, but I look nothing like Gabourney. (For the record, I think she's beautiful, but we look nothing alike.)
Enough already.
I happen to know EXACTLY what you mean. There's a choir director/musicologist here names Pat Bishop who was really big back in the day - and I mean BIG in every sense of the word. She was big in the society and music circles and she was huge, and people thought that it was somehow a compliment for me to be told that I looked like her. Hello???! It never was. We don't have the same structure, the same colouring - NOTHING!!! Our supposed resemblance began and ended in the fact that we were both big.
ReplyDeleteI hate that shit! Like I always say girlfriend - drop her and her baggage at the foot of the cross and LEAVE HER THERE!