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Its really hard being gay sometimes. imagine the brain room if we only liked boys. the hours we wouldnt have wasted :( #badnight

i feel you. but as someone who has liked boys: life is still not fun! there are ways in which it is easier, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. relationships with men involve their own special secret personal hells that you never really get over. what we have to go through is not okay by any stretch of the imagination, but i honestly believe that we’re lucky in a lot of ways, if only that we inherit an amazing community of people who take care of each other no matter what, but also that we can have relationships that are (largely) free of the spiritual disease/mindfuck that is male privilege/america’s gender obsession.

anyways, i’m sorry you had a bad night. i hope you feel better.

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we went on a date, i was cute, she was cute, we were funny, i called her the next day. she didnt answer. she hasnt answered since. what did i do wrong? :(

probably nothing. sometimes people are completely incapable of basic life tasks and this often manifests itself in not returning phone calls/being able to interact with other people (see: me) but that’s her problem, not yours. find someone else who will call you back.

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Does it annoy you that so many questions you get are about your hair? My hair is only to my boobs, but people touch it all the time, and it’s really annoying. I hope people don’t touch your hair against your will, and I hope you’re having a nice day.

it’s been a really nice day actually, my brother is visiting me and we are making veg sushi! anyways people haven’t asked me about my hair that much over the internet, but it did get annoying in real life, mostly because it was so often the first/only thing people could think to say to me and i know they didn’t know that they were the most recent in a long line but i always felt like it was the only thing about me people found interesting. and then i had to think of something to say that sounded like i was flattered

also though i cut a lot of it off, so that’s helped

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why did you do a year of no movies?

for the first three months of 2007 i was super busy with like 5 big writing projects, for the next four months i was in a tumultuous relationship with someone with whom I was sort of removed from the real world and also she got mad at me if i ever watched tv or saw movies (long story), for the next three months i was so broke i needed a new word for broke, for the subsequent two months i sunk into this semi-agoraphobic depression (reaction to aforementioned relationship) and had trouble leaving my apartment or being around large groups of people (especially on the subway), as i started getting better i realized i hadn’t seen any movies that year and decided it would be funnier to say that i had declared 2007 “the year of no movies” than it would be to tell you what i just told you. then when i was in michigan that december my mom and brother guilted me into breaking my fast with Juno. I liked Juno though.

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Can you do a post about the gyno? im going for the first time in 2 weeks what should i expect them to do? and do i need to tell them that im active with girls not guys? ! What are the do’s and donts about going to the gyno..im nervous n dont kno who toask

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ive lost weight. like, a lot. like, im a size zero now and my hipbones hurt from sticking out so much. my doctor told me im underweight (but she also told me that lesbians dont need pap smears… so i dont know how much i trust her ya know?) everytime

i see my mom she tells me i look better and better. she says i should keep losing weight, and then makes me go work out with her. i don’t know who is right. :(
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YOUR DOCTOR
and not because doctors are always right
but because it sounds like you are underweight
your hipbones hurt from sticking out?
sounds like there’s nothing left to lose

baby,
i know you’re not supposed to say things
about other people’s moms
but i’m kinda mad at your mom

you need to be healthy and eat when you’re hungry and exercise to be healthy and take care of your body because it is blessed and perfect no matter what size it is ok. you will have to find a way to love and spend time with your mother while disregarding her toxic ideas about your body and understanding that they probably come from someplace scared or damaged, perhaps her mother did it to her, who knows. but it’s really not about you. your body is your body. feed it, keep it holy

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i think i like this girl, we’ve hooked up a few times. i’ve told her i wasn’t looking for anything serious, she agreed. i think by saying that i’ve pushed her away, when in fact we both might be lying to ourself so we won’t get hurt again. what do i do?

probably keep hooking up with her but never talk about your feelings until they eventually explode out of you in some kind of messy and deeply regrettable jealousy/lovelorn meltdown situation. or the opposite of that. either one.

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Rachel, I need an opinion: Me+girl schedule gelato date, she gets flu and bails with pic of kitty. This semester, she is on leave, but moved to my home area, according to fb. She is so cute, and awesome. Is it creepy to ask her out for tea on facebook?

i’m torn on this because on the one hand, if she’s in your home area and hasn’t gotten in touch with you yet that is Not A Good Sign. on the other hand, i’ve been bailed on a lot of times and no one has ever thought to include a kitten photo. so. there’s that.

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