Charlotte Green

You Look Like A Boy I Knew

I have to admit that I was pretty scared when I first caught you out of the corner of my eye. My whole body was overtaken with this incredible, terrible nervousness and I wondered how I could possibly open a conversation.

What It Feels Like To Have Sex With Your Ex

There is also the familiarity. It becomes like a kind of drug, something you can’t take big enough hits of when you are looking for something, anything, to make sense to you.

I Only Love Myself

I am standing in the bathroom, brushing my hair, completely naked. You walk up behind me and tell me that I look good like that, that I should go naked more often, that the light is particularly flattering on my back side.

The Things Girls Want To Hear

You show that you have not been beaten into a patriarchal pulp by all of these ridiculous expectations that you don’t show how you actually feel.

If You Kissed Me

I would follow you home. You would open the door, and I would have to stop myself from leaping for joy. I would have to pretend to be less excited than I was, pretend that I don’t need you the way I have needed you for so long now.

How To Get Your Heart Broken

Know the day where the speech is coming. Feel it in your bones when they call you and ask you to meet them somewhere — somewhere public enough that you won’t make a scene.

19 Ingredients For Good Sex

No expectations about how big this should be, or how shaved that should be, that will ruin the whole thing if it’s not quite up to your standards.

Don’t Be The Other Woman

Something truly ugly happens in people when we feel that we’re losing something we love, something that we put in the work for and cared for, such as our significant other.

This Is Where You Tell Me I’m Pretty

Is that really the point of these conversations — to get me to stop being upset by reminding me that men still find me attractive, that I still have some kind of worth in this world, as judged by others?

Get Out Of My Bed

People tell us all the time that we should be together, that we would make such a good couple, that we’re “basically already dating.” What does that mean?

If Vaginas Are Weird, So Are Penises

I don’t care if he’s bringing home the foreskin. I don’t care about any of this because we are not obsessed as a culture with making sure men’s bits look like something made for a Bratz doll.

Do You Love Her?

You told me you were leaving, and at least had the decency not to pretend that it was just to be alone for a while.

26 Ways To Have An Awesome Weekend

Read the entire Wikipedia article on a really important event you know almost nothing about, and feel really informed for the next few days.

19 Reasons I Am Pretending You Don’t Exist

Because I’m afraid you’ll ask me for the sweater back which I have strategically stolen. But you can’t be mad at me for this; it fits perfectly and keeps me extremely warm on the semi-frequent nights where my heater doesn’t work.

How To Love An Introvert

Do not force them to engage in constant activities which you believe will make them a more “well-rounded” person.