I didn't realize it was that bad. [ For muggles in Texas or anywhere, though maybe he would have a better idea about it if he paid any attention whatsoever. ]

It's just an arrangement of organs. [ Gender. Bits. Whatever. Doesn't even have anything to do with magic or species. His Slytherin friends were always either too stuck up to acknowledge the existence of anything outside breeding potential or already engaging in libertine ideals of fuck anything. If was always the Gryffindors who made cracks about it-- and always the pureblood ones. Funny, that. ]

I used to get people who didn't like me accusing me of sleeping with my housemates. Blokes. Like it was supposed to offend me that there were rumors I was shagging the really rich good-looking students.

[ Sort of a joke, but also true. What the fuck. Lucius 'hottest dude in school ever' Malfoy, wow what a torturous idea. Lucius didn't care, which Severus always found really kind of him. Severus would have been pissed, if he were the older man. Not about the gay thing, but about Severus being poor and ugly and probably not actually pureblooded. ]