I Got Single White Female-d and It Was An Existential Journey
If we are close friends on Instagram, then you probably know that last autumn, I found out that a former coworker/ friend was basically “single white female- ing” me. If you haven’t seen the 90s thriller movie Single White Female, it’s about a woman in her 20s in NYC in the 90s who gets a new roommate who is OBSESSED with her. So much so that the new roommate gets an identical cut and color for her hair, and starts dressing like her, and tries to bang her boyfriend by pretending to be the OG girl! The roommate wants to take over the OG girl’s life for her own, becoming her. (I watched this movie this autumn for the first time. The name of the film comes from the OG girl’s newspaper ad seeking a roommate—- like why does the roommate have to be white? Can she not room w a single black female or a single brown female? Like does it actually matter?? 🤨 were people in the 90s just like casually racist all the time? Idk but at the end of the movie I was like “I don’t feel bad for her, maybe ...
