I remember taking a course in college called "Communication and Society", and my professor was obsessed by the belief that fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood were evil. She said they were part of a latent social code that hoped to suppress women. it got me to thinking, well, in this day and age mass media seems to be suppressing women. Mass media it seems makes it imppossible to fall for a girl with any acumen of normalcy. There is no "normal" because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously (I won't mention any names *cough* John Mayer *cough*). You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they're probably modeling themselve after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. The best relationship I ever had was with a girl who was as crazy as me. I don't know exactly where I'm going with this, but ultimately I think it's another underlying attack on John Mayer....that douchebag.
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