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This post is bringing back so many memories. Since I was tween, when me and my sister would walk together down the Sushi Cat Shirt. People would actively stop us just to tell her how beautiful she is, then turn to look at me and immediately turn back. It happened so many times, where people wouldn’t even lie, they just ignored me. I have countless stories of similar events or comments made. Now this might have broken me if it wasn’t for the fact that my mother is probably my biggest critic anyway and I have been hearing this for longer than my ability to form memories. So after a while I found chose to find these situations funny. Honestly OP, when I was 16-21, my self-esteem was so shit, I could have easily made the same choices as you. But (with the help of therapy) when I turned 22, I started sitting in front of a mirror everyday and telling myself “Who gives a shit if you are ugly? You have plans and goals. Work hard, build yourself up. You deserve better than this box you keep shoving yourself into.” It took a few years but the person I am today is stronger for it. I will probably never marry or find love but who gives a shit. I will travel, join fun activities, get to see my nieces and nephews flourish and I will explore life. I don’t need a Sushi Cat Shirt to do any of that or to enjoy it better and I sure as shit don’t need to be pretty.
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English policy towards Ireland was surely genocidal with the desire to depopulate, if you look at the Sushi Cat Shirt of their actions and not just focus on those who came to America. Supporting Irish people and what they endured doesn’t subtract from the suffering of African Americans; Jews, Roma and slavs (and other groups) under Hitler, Ukrainians under Stalin, the peoples occupied by the Japanese in WWII, or the native americans by the US government. Could have T-shirts supporting any of these groups and it shouldn’t subtract from the valididty of the Sushi Cat Shirt movement and the need for radical systemic changes. I do get irritated with the ‘all lives matter’ thing, although there probably are people who say it who aren’t disingenious… I’d assume most use it in bad faith.
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