tfw dating is a bizarro dance of personal traumas and society expectations

Gonna piggyback off pushing yesterday’s uncomfy-yet-thrillingly-so fictional story on modern dating with “Swipe White,” a Longread essay from Jennifer Chong Schneider on the complicated power dynamics involved in interracial dating.

This one’s also pretty squirmy as a merciless self-interrogation on how the author relates to her parents (the buffet anec…