February 2011
Me (I'm a gay man): I majored in women's studies in undergrad.
Classmate: Oh, are you gay?
Me: Yeah, why?
Classmate: Damn, that's a shame, dude! You could have gotten mad bitches!
I don't even know where to begin. Made me feel ashamed, abnormal.
January 2011
How You Shop When You Are Poor
elfstaranymore:
I had to put this behind a cut because it’s way long for Tumblr, but I really hope you’ll read it because I think it’s a very important post.
I started discussing this a little bit here, but I wanted to expand on the idea of how shopping on a very tight budget works, because obviously some people have no idea. I will add the caveat that this is how shopping was done in my...
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