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Dear Breakup Girl,

I try to get along with the opposite sex in my relationships, but once I say no to situations or challenge the opposite sex, I get the B-word. Why does it have to be like this?

-- Deborah

Dear Deborah,

Ah, yes. Just wait 'til you get a job! If you're not aggressive enough, you "can't cut it;" if you're too aggressive, you're a B-word. Welcome to the bitchen world of double standards. "I like a gal who's not afraid to speak her mind...as long as she doesn't scare me when she does!" It's totally B for Bothersome, but -- as long as you're not, like, actually being a mean and rude person, which I doubt you are -- then I'd just try to let it roll off your B for Back. Keep being your good-natured/badass self, and someday soon, up will step a guy with his own set of...B. (And I bet you'll be his...Beatrice.)

Love,
Breakup Girl

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