love island: am I a fetish or are you just open-minded?

Love Island: am I a fetish or are you just open-minded? I am a fetish? Just open minded? Let's talk about it. On last night's episode, Bryce and Trinity kind of equivocated over the interracial nature of the relationship and how strong it actually is. Which does seem to be like, the evergreen nature and concern of interracial relationships, right? Like, that he's not Trinity's traditional type. And Trinity is concerned that, quote, some brunette will come in and Bryce will bounce. They're both concerned about that possibility with each other and the presumed types of each person. What Trinity thinks Bryce wants. What Bryce thinks Trinity wants. Fall on opposite sides of the color line. The important context here is that colorism has loomed pretty darkly in the background of the show thus far. Right? We have KC talking to the audience, talking to Aniya is the blueprint and how he knows implicitly, skinned on a island can be very difficult. We have Corbin making these like really blatantly weird faces towards Aniya and Trinity during challenges. And then Zach is acting, like very suddenly, aggressively and negatively toward and about Trinity. Right? Like, all of that together is very odd and very discomforting for the women that are black. Which is to say, that racial anxiety and concern is valid, is real. Been done that. Like I said before, some of my partners in the past have been white, which presents all sorts of obstacles as it pertains. First hurdle in my mind has always been like, am I a fetish for you? Or is this just something normal that you're doing? A normal open-minded person have all of your recent partners been black, or is this the first time? What number is the appropriate number before, like, veering on fetish territory? And if I, black person you ever dated, is this an experiment to you? Are you trying this out? Will you scurry back to your original type once am I just helping you figure yourself out and your place in, like, what are we doing here? Can I trust is the first time for you of your race, will our relationship with microaggressions that I have to you and help how will you deal with, like, brief moments of racial and cultural misunderstanding? Will you gaslight that what you did wasn't wrong? Family dynamics weird? Does your mom know that I'm black? Will that piss her off? These are all of the complexities and things to think about when you're dating interracially, and that can be particularly difficult when you're doing on a stage as large as Love Island. Lesson that I've learned is that be the first, partner to be gentle and to educate and be, like, okay with all of that. Educate, right. Like, the lesson is that it's prejudice to someone who's never experienced it. And you have to be really committed to working. There's the reality, like, might doubt when you come and tell them that something really harmful happened to you. And just generally, it's going to be emotionally exhausting regardless. Big big ups to Trinity and Bryce for having like, emotional conversation on reality TV. Big big ups to Love Island for airing it. I love our little Sims. Bye.