Southern pride Tessy (because Beyoncé said it's cool).
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Das right.
If you need a celebrity to tell you that something you love is cool before coming all-out with pride for it, you are the antithesis of cool.
Genuinely cool people just like what they like, and don't think about whether anybody else likes it, or thinks it's cool. They also are at peace with where they've come from, and don't feel the need to downplay it or pretend they're so much better than that. Genuinely cool people don't need anybody else's approval or validation. They don't feel ashamed to admit that they're from some "uncool" place, or love something as basic as a genre of music, lest others think less of them.
Tess loves to see herself as edgy and cool and not giving a fuck about what anybody thinks of her, but she is grovellingly desperate to be considered one of the cool kids. And now that a black woman of Beyonce's stature has informed her fat, white ass that it is acceptable to be from the South, and to feel pride in where you come from, she's going to jump all over it.
Of course, I think Queen Bey's messaging was really going out to other black people, given how so much black pop culture is confined to the Northeast, the West Coast, Chicago, and Detroit. Tess, being tone-deaf and having to make things all about herself in the way only Narcs can do, has hurled her fat, white carcass onto the Southern Pride train, without really stopping to think it through. I don't think it's going to work out anywhere near as well as she'd like it to among the white ultra-progs whose favor she's trying to curry for social validation and jobs, but I'm here for the inevitable fallout.