Random Musings 6

ATTENTION ALL WHITE WOMEN: TEACH YOUR SON THE BENEFITS OF LOTION

I don’t know if perhaps this is just one of those things that slips through the cracks in a young boys life, or if somehow this was the one thing that I never really paid attention to, or perhaps I thought it was too girly for a boy to be concerned about, but I wish I had learned about the benefits of lotion earlier. Growing up, my black and asian friends always used it because they got “ashy” and so their parents forced them to use it.

Now youre probably thinking to yourself – Well, of course, white people don’t get ashy! – but, young white girls know to moisturize because they are taught to do so by their mothers. I know this because I have sisters and I’m the only one who never learned this lesson.

Never in my life did my mother sit me down and say, “Son, you should be lotioning daily” and now that I look back at my teenage years I realize I was ashy as fuck even if my white skin didn’t show it visibly. Now, at the ripe age of 27, I lotion often, but perhaps had I started sooner my skin would be healthier, my eyes wouldnt have bags under them constantly, and I wouldn’t have to write a post broadcasting to the internet that teenage me never understood the benefits of lotion.

Thanks mom, what else don’t I know?