Tired as Hell TBVMFH

It's pretty rare to find games with Black characters, so seeing this one, and seeing that the Black girl (named Alice) is the protagonist, got me really excited for it, and seeing her lively and pretty skintone made me believe for a moment that her design as a Black character was good.

BUT, then I saw her dad..

and it Completely broke that illusion for me. Seeing this supposed Black man with such a Terrible and Lazy design made it obvious to me that they didn't try or care, he's some generic anime man that they bucket-tool-painted brown.. AND with blue eyes.

It was so jarring that it made me realize Alice's design isn't that good either, I was settling down for a mediocre design when I had nobody else to compare her to.

So I made a like 20 minutes edit of her! It's not perfect, but it cemented for me that they could've tried A BIT more with her design, but they chose Not to (not even for the game's protagonist -_-).

I know and love two Macklemore songs and I'll be honest, I don't recall him using a Blaccent in either of them. But those came out a decade ago, so. Maybe he does now? 🤷🏾‍♀️

for context the owner said i was hopeless, that i wasn’t doing anything with my life and would go nowhere and that i was bad at my job.

he also raised his voice at me and yelled at me ON shift. and when i told him i no longer wished to speak to him and i got my shift covered he followed me into the parking lot to harass me some more. i’ve never EVER made a post like this but genuinely don’t know what else to do. i’ve spent 4 years of my life working there. working open - closes, walking there because of my towns shitty transportation, have worked shifts by myself, covered NUMEROUS shifts.

not to mention any time my boss has verbally harassed someone else i have always stuck up for my coworkers. i am out of a stable income in one of the worst economies and he did this all purposefully to degrade and humiliate me because he didn’t like being told he was out unprofessionally and creating a hostile environment.

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?