Being Gay Isn’t A Personality Trait
Here’s a list of 31 things that also aren’t personality traits.
2 min readDec 12, 2019
- Your race
- Your gender
- Mental disorders
- Your eating habits — no one cares that you’re vegan
- Your political positions
- Your marital status
- Your religion
- Your income level — being poor doesn’t make you enlightened
- The fact that you shook hands with a famous person once
- The fact that you’re bad at math
- The fact you’re a writer — actual writers don’t talk about writing; they just do it
- Your crappy parents
- Your crappy ex
- That one unpopular TV show you thought was good
- Your hatred of capitalism
- The fact that you’re a grown-ass adult and still watch Spongebob occasionally
- The fact you use Reddit
- How you’re “trying to workout” — we all know you aren’t
- Your addiction to Starbucks
- Your insomnia
- Your hometown
- How you think you know the “real world” because you’ve seen a picture of a starving child in Africa
- The fact that you smoke weed
- Your age
- Your children
- The one time you got catcalled
- The fact that you read The New York Times
- Your inability to get laid
- Your alma mater
- Your pet conspiracy theory
- Your cynicism — we all agree that life sucks, get on with it
Now, stop defining yourself by these things, and get yourself an actual personality.