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• Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:07 PM

  oh my

  @caraboo

  "Why would a smart, accomplished, focused woman always need to be in a relationship?"

  because humans are social animals. because sex and love and passion are fun and just a few of the things that make life great (drugs are another). because masturbation gets boring. because ______ . any more dumb questions you need answered? need me to tell you why eliot spitzer risked everything for some outside vagina, too? three cats, your boring career, and the complete SATC dvd collection don't cut it for all of us, you realize.

  dear LW:

  i'm the same age as you and i was in a similar situation as dude #2. i was w/ someone, she still pined for her ex (who dumped her), then she dumped me because she wasn't over him. aaaaand, i'm pretty sure there isn't a day that goes by where she thinks of me. probably doesn't even remember my name. what's my point here? oh yeah, life sucks, then you die, then you're forgotten.

  listen, other people have already said this, but you seem extremely full of yourself. and maybe you poop big ripe strawberries--anything is possible, right? (which i'm sure your mom told you every day growing up, along w/ "you can be anything you want to be!")--and so perhaps any sort of criticism or advice on you will be lost. so instead, i'm going to recommend a movie: vicky, christina, barcelona. and pay special attention to scarlett johansson's character.

  as far as liberals being navel-gazing bores: tragically, it's kind of true. in general. i'm sure we're all exceptions to that rule, but still. i'm as liberal as it gets, but my ideological brethren do tend to grate on my nerves w/ the unabashed solipsism. and viewing everything, particularly love and sex, through a political prism is really one of the worst things ever to happen to sociology. human behavior is messy, confounding, strange, and illogical. despite opposable thumbs and the neocortex, we still behave in often base, self-centered ways (which is at odds w/ our social nature; see, it's confounding). we know better, yet we still act like assholes. funny, that.

  —aaron g Read aaron g's other letters
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