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Why aren’t more people commenting on the Portia book article? It’s odd.

i’m not sure, especially since i’ve gotten at least 20 formpsring questions on related topics. maybe it’s poorly written? i worked on it for a whole day and by the end of the day i didn’t know if any of the words were even in the right sentences and i felt like i would never publish it and then we wouldn’t have a new feature and we’d had the same feature for two days and omg the coding of the redesign isn’t done this would be easier if we had the new site up and fuck i have to add all those new thumbnails and tags so we can transition to the new redesign and then it will be easier to sell ads and omg if there wasn’t a new feature then we wouldn’t maintain 40,000 hits a day and then we’d never make money and then how will any of us get out of these holes and if this wasn’t a new feature and i didn’t finish writing it today because I have 4+ other articles to write and numerous to edit and also like 10 emails to send then well see if didn’t happen then clearly THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD END, so i suppose it’s possible that it sucks, but i don’t think it sucks THAT bad. I mean it’s also possible that a lot of people don’t feel comfortable talking about EDs when it’s less anonymous or more conversational.

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There’s the awareness, sporadic perhaps but familiar to many women, that we spend entirely too much time trying to suppress appetite instead of indulging it… there’s an ill-defined but persistent feeling that on the whole this is a painful way to live, that it leaves us more anxious than we ought to be, or more depressed, or somehow cheated, as though somewhere along the way our very entitlement to hunger—to want things that feed us and fill us and give us joy—had been stolen.
from Appetites: Why Women Want by Caroling Knapp via Autostraddle — The Bearable Heaviness of Portia DeRossi’s “Unbearable Lightness”
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I like this girl that likes girls and we’re friends but I think she only likes girls like her (femme-y girly girls, which I am not). But she texts me all the time and kinda flirts with me. How do I know for sure if she likes me? Can I get her to like me?

you can never know for sure if anyone likes you.
literally everyday is a leap of faith.
does that sound dramatic? i feel like it’s true.
can you get her to like you? i don’t know. do you want to ‘get’ someone to like you? or would you rather them just like you?

i bet this girl is super cute and great. i bet she smells like home and tomorrow and falling.
give it a shot. flirt back. the worst that happens is she tells you she isn’t into you and you can mark her off your list.

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I thought I’d have life figured out by now. Does anyone really ever get their shit together? Or do they just get better at pretending?

i think i actually ‘grew up’ when i realized that my mother had never really known what the hell she was doing, and that probably my grandmother had been flying by the seat of her pants, too.
it kind of frees things up; leaves life open to interpretation. i like it.

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