Amen. Being white and thin and willing to go very blonde and wear a lot of makeup and performatively feminine clothes is like a cheat code.

THANK YOU. She's a great example of how a specific type of makeup/hair/thinness/other self-presentation reads "pretty" even when the raw material is...not.

My parents didn't think lunch boxes were useful so they wouldn't have bought me one, but the people who lived in our house before us left a Scooby Doo lunchbox in the basement that I was allowed to use. I'd never seen the show but my classmates had, so ... good enough.

Oh wow. This is a resource.