“You’re Single? Who Hurt You?”

It’s more like I hurt myself by trying to force myself to be a girlfriend.

It’s common for people to tell the perpetually single that their single-ness is a problem, a trauma to be fixed. “Who hurt you?” is a common question.

While this might be true in some cases, to me it felt dismissive. And honestly, I think it was the other way…

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Stories that cause “concern.” Feminism. Satire. Humor. Misc.

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