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do you think lesbians have more masculinized brains? do u even believe in masculine and feminine brains? sometimes i think this sort of studies are made only to create a scientific basis for preexistent social prejudices (see j.watson on black people’s in

i’m trying to think if i’ve ever heard or read a single thing about how any one group is ‘wired differently’ than any other group that didn’t make me at least deeply irritated and i don’t think i can. i think i just believe in brains.

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I don’t know what I want to study in graduate school and thus the process of applying is becoming more and more terrifying and overwhelming. Since I don’t know what I want to study, should I just stop and take a year off to work and figure it out after gr

i feel like based on the number of people i know developing problematic drinking habits and extreme cases of self-loathing as they pursue higher education, if you don’t even know what you want to study then maybe put this one on the back burner for a while. unless you can’t find a job and somehow find a program that you know will give you a lot of funding! then go for it for sure.

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do you believe in the existence of “female literature”? i mean, do you think women and men write differently?

i think they write from different places. if you’re thinking of the v.s. naipaul thing, no, i think that’s ridiculous and on some level even he has to know that’s ridiculous. i think that for most of history (and still today – for instance, the reception of emily gould’s work as opposed to, say, chuck klosterman’s) women have written from a perspective of being told they have nothing worthwhile to say, and yeah, that informs your work. i think literature is a slightly different animal in that case, it’s a political act even when you didn’t mean for it to be. which is pretty badass, really.

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i’ve been in love with this girl since like 6th grade and i’m pretty sure she’s straight. even though we’re good friends i avoid her b/c i’m afraid she’ll notice my feelings…now we’re both leaving for (different) college and i want to tell her before we

you have to ask yourself “what’s the worst that could happen?” and then move forward based on the assumption that the worst will happen.
so the worst thing here would be that she doesn’t feel the same (she probably won’t, statistically speaking), flips out about all the times you saw her in boxer shorts and says she never wants to talk to you again.
right?
but here’s the thing: if she’s the kind of person who would flip out and never want to speak to you again, she needs to get the fuck out anyway. nobody needs friends like that.

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Today is my birthday, do you think this will be the year i finally find love, or atleast someone to make pancakes and cute sandwiches with?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY you need to make this the year you love YOURSELF. make pancakes and sandwiches for YOU. do you have a puppy? get a fucking puppy. i was looking on petfinder this afternoon and there’s this puppy – a maltese poodle mix – that made love spew from my heartholes. i want that fucking puppy. hey, you know who’s always happy to see you and is excellent at cuddling (and also chews up your underwear but WHATEVER)??

fuckin’ puppies.

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LANEIA. after not speaking to me for months and months why is my ex-gf texting me about her new lady problems WHY WHY WHY IS THIS HAPPENING

i want to say that it’s because she’s a manipulative, self-absorbed jerk who gets off on toying with other people’s emotions and that you should delete her contact info and consider changing your number BUT THEN i think, if it were me texting an ex after months and months, it would be because i wanted them back and didn’t have the guts to just say so.

so fuck idk.

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