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"and now, even though she knows he isn't telling her everything, she has invited him to her car and they're gonna go cruise the projects in the middle of the night while he is wearing a tuxedo. SURE.
Also SORRY it's "The Projects" which, what." — Sep 11, 2016 11:27PM
"and now, even though she knows he isn't telling her everything, she has invited him to her car and they're gonna go cruise the projects in the middle of the night while he is wearing a tuxedo. SURE.
Also SORRY it's "The Projects" which, what." — Sep 11, 2016 11:27PM
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"LOL FOR FUCK EVER. Look, if you do a find and replace to italicize a certain string of characters, you need to make sure they don't show up in the middle of an unrelated word WHOOPS. Also it's vocal CORDS. Chords appear in geometry and music, not biology." — Oct 22, 2014 07:56PM
"LOL FOR FUCK EVER. Look, if you do a find and replace to italicize a certain string of characters, you need to make sure they don't show up in the middle of an unrelated word WHOOPS. Also it's vocal CORDS. Chords appear in geometry and music, not biology." — Oct 22, 2014 07:56PM
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"Okay, we are making a big deal of consent, and how Our Hero would never force his attentions on an unwilling woman, AND YET, the woman in question has told him "no" a half dozen times, and he just prevented her from leaving the room. DOES NOT COMPUTE." — Feb 17, 2016 10:39PM
"Okay, we are making a big deal of consent, and how Our Hero would never force his attentions on an unwilling woman, AND YET, the woman in question has told him "no" a half dozen times, and he just prevented her from leaving the room. DOES NOT COMPUTE." — Feb 17, 2016 10:39PM


“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
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“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl

“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass

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