Natalie to me is defined by the fact that she's way less protective and competent feeling than the last one. Or, the last one was less perky and friendly, but Natalie's been all "Come onnnnnnnn, Mr. Monk, you have to! I have [x] that I have to do! You'll be fine on your own! *bolts!* *cue scene of a distraught Monk wailing "NATALIEEEEE! NATALIEEEEE!" and being helpless* *cue! zany! misadventure!*" where the last one seemed way more capable and aggressive and proactive with him. Sharona was more the "tough broad" stereotype, Natalie was more the "sweet little lady" stereotype. Both were blonde single mothers, iirc.
(Again, our culture is a strange one. Isn't size ten completely normal and fine, though? I mean I'm skewed because even Angelina Jolie gets amazingly unattractive to me when she's gone size waytoofuckingskinnyIdon'tlikelookingatyourbones, I don't know what's supposed to be "normal" and where "pretty" becomes "gaunt" anymore, but man. I'd way rather see people like you who don't tear their own self-esteem to shreds every time they look in a mirror and actually require idiots to intervene and tell them they should be embarrassed of how they look. Way better to realise they're idiots and occasionally feel like shit because of it than go through life telling yourself you're hideous.)
The "Asian suit" still kills me. It's so unbelievable, double-take inducing. I kind of love it because the fact that that kind of stupid exists, and in NYC of all places. Man.
That's the one thing I love about American maybe more than anything else, is our sheer number of "mongrel" people, whether it's interracial mixing or just intercultural. I doubt I qualify as mixed enough someone against miscegenation would correctly identify me as anathema without being told (but who knows, maybe I'm a sucky judge, I don't quiz nearly enough people to know who I look mixed to and who assumes I'm just a funny looking [whatever I'm pegged as]) but I guess that's an other. As bigots go I think I'd get hit so hard for not being straight they'd forget to do a bloodline check or measure if my eyes were too slanty.
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(Again, our culture is a strange one. Isn't size ten completely normal and fine, though? I mean I'm skewed because even Angelina Jolie gets amazingly unattractive to me when she's gone size waytoofuckingskinnyIdon'tlikelookingatyourbones, I don't know what's supposed to be "normal" and where "pretty" becomes "gaunt" anymore, but man. I'd way rather see people like you who don't tear their own self-esteem to shreds every time they look in a mirror and actually require idiots to intervene and tell them they should be embarrassed of how they look. Way better to realise they're idiots and occasionally feel like shit because of it than go through life telling yourself you're hideous.)
The "Asian suit" still kills me. It's so unbelievable, double-take inducing. I kind of love it because the fact that that kind of stupid exists, and in NYC of all places. Man.
That's the one thing I love about American maybe more than anything else, is our sheer number of "mongrel" people, whether it's interracial mixing or just intercultural. I doubt I qualify as mixed enough someone against miscegenation would correctly identify me as anathema without being told (but who knows, maybe I'm a sucky judge, I don't quiz nearly enough people to know who I look mixed to and who assumes I'm just a funny looking [whatever I'm pegged as]) but I guess that's an other. As bigots go I think I'd get hit so hard for not being straight they'd forget to do a bloodline check or measure if my eyes were too slanty.