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My girlfriend is a fat, Tumblr browsing degenerate, with no significant aspirations and no desire for children. She is mostly gay, and seems chronically apathetic toward most everything we do together (I can't coax a modicum of input out of her). I'm quite miserable in this relationship but I don't want to be the one to break it off bc a) I feel bad for her b) I think it'd be petty of me c) All the other women my age who I know are either taken, just as bad as her, or wouldn't be interested in my pathetic ass anyway
Totally irrelevant to hamline, other than the fact that I go there. There is this guy at the place I take music lessons at (he's not the instructor). He's really cute, funny, and in general seems like the type I'd get along with. I've been going here for probably about 4 months and have been trying to muster up the courage to ask him for coffee. I just worry that I am being that person who mistakes retail friendliness for actual flirting. Advice on how to bring it up in a casual way that isn't overbearing/won't make my future lessons awkward?
Why aren't we protesting and petitioning how Hamline partners with Aramark, a food company that has provided maggot ridden food to prisoners? Why aren't we more actively protesting the loss of J-term and the credit cap? Or the crumbling and poorly ventilated living spaces?
If Jeff Bridges had more children would they be Small Lebowskis
I'm from out of state. I saw a student with a notebook that said "shut the fuck up about your stupid Diet." There sure are lots of Lutherans in Minnesota!
The difference between Barney Frank and Amy Schumer is that one is a crusty old sexual deviant and the other is someone I'd pay to see perform comedy who also happens to be a gay congressman.
How Trump Got Elected 101:
Privilege means having enough of your needs met that you have the ability to prioritize other's problems ahead of your own. Most people of all colors are getting screwed by TPTB in some drastically inconvenient way. Outside of the progressively insular urbanized liberal elite bubble, "white privilege" sounds absurdly out of touch. There are more white, rural poor than urban, black poor in America, and yet who speaks for the former in such explit idpol terms other than "neo-nazis?" Do I blame this double standard on blanket anti-white racism like other blowhards like Richard Spencer? No. The problem is an old problem. It is the use of idpol to distract from class dynamics, and this rhetoric hurts everyone involved, even if well-intentioned. Even if race and class interplay, only class determines what one eats and what shelter one calls home at the end of the day. Speaking of race (especially as ahead of class) adds nothing substantial to the conversation. It only serves to alienate all whites outside the urban academic circle jerk that controls public discourse, people who need to be on board as long as the electoral college can give them power.
#MakeSocialismColorblindAgain
Just because you go to a few protests you think you're better than everyone else? You're a bully. You talk shit about white people, you talk shit about people who support you. Yes, even liberals and Bernie Bros, and then you don't listen when people try to offer you a different perspective. You think your soooooo much better than everyone and it's pathetic. You find the stupidest things to get upset over and then when someone calls you out on your shit, you just throw in a few links to some "everyday feminism" articles and leave your even worse, even angrier, bigger bully friends to fight your battles for you.
You're not so cool. I don't care how oppressed you are, it doesn't give you a right to be an asshole all the time to everyone. I can't believe people are always falling for your shit and think that you're this "cool guy on campus". Heads up: People don't actually like you. They're just afraid to tell you you're an asshole because you will just emotionally abuse them.
You call people fascists. Your the fascist.