Miwon wrote:

i had a sad thought the last few days that i don't feel very emotionally attached to my parents. i rarely see them (about 3x a year max). i talk to them once a week but only b/c i feel obligated to call. when they are gone on trips, i don't miss them. i don't feel that excited about the thought of them visiting me or me visiting them. i ( Read more... )

Dear Satan,
Some say I'm dealing with my saturn's return. It's true, I see all my friends reaching these milestones like having kids and getting married or getting promotions. I don't want any of those things! but I feel unsatisfied. That's the problem with setting your goals so low you can achieve them all before you're 30. What am I supposed to do ( Read more... )

Dear Satan,

I recently began online dating at a massive scale--think China. I don't want to be in a relationship right now. The more dates I go on the more I realize that. Why am I'm doing this?

--Dating Logically?

Dear DL,

Sometimes, people think of dating as part of a long story arc where the resolution is partnership, marriage, children, happiness ( Read more... )

Dear Miwon,
Although I have a general disdain for Christianity and organized religion as a whole, I find myself dating hardcore Christians again and again. While it might be fun at first, these relationships inevitably end over differences in "core values". That's christ-speak for "you don't believe in jesus". I don't know why I keep falling into ( Read more... )

it bothers me when people don't think about race, and class, and how these all play into who we choose to love.

but it also really bothers me when people feel like they can judge another person (and usually it's an asian woman)'s choices in something as personal as who they love.

i've met some pretty down white people who thought a lot about race ( Read more... )

Satan-
I don't know how to say this, so I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. I'm dating a white dude. He's great but I'm ashamed to bring him around to my peoples. Also- he looks like Powder. Great movie, huh? http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001218/
One of my friends said that to truly ( Read more... )

miwon wrote:
should i be scared or excited that satan wants to be my friend on LJ?

you should be scared NOT to be satan's friend.
more importantly: isn't it exciting to be scared?

Dear Satan,
Next year I will be moving across the country to be with my man-friend. That is pretty much the lamest reason for leaving california that I've ever heard of, nonetheless it is the truth.

Can you brainstorm some alternative excuses for me so that when I leave, I can do  so with my oakland street cred still semi-intact? Try to  make me ( Read more... )

hey wait a minute...something's off here - satan seems just too wise and poetic, and definitely too nice.  maybe someone is impersonating him...how did satan get so wise and poetic? satan seems too nice.

--Miwon and Paper of Color

Dear MaPoC,

Satan became wise through a wealth of experience, traveling the earth, meeting lots of people (and immortals ( Read more... )