I wanted to find out if my dating habits were normal or if the thoughts and feelings I had were normal. So when I stumbled upon How To Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson, I thought, “oh my god I need to read this.” Not only because I was curious, but because I wanted to see if it would help me get over the “all men are trash” mentality I have–not for the sake of the male population, but for myself when I’m in the dating world. It’s living in fear of being taken advantage of again, emotionally, mentally, physically. It’s a mixture of everything, with overthinking and anxieties and all. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I really like Harry Styles and Timothee Chalamat (as we all do), but when it comes to men that I actually have a chance of dating, I have a hard time. Published by Flatiron.As a woman and as a victim of sexual assault, it’s been hard for me to like men. To paraphrase the suffragettes in Mary Poppins: though I adore men as individuals, I believe that as a group they're systemically oppressing women.įrom How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson ©2019. Some are really kind! Many are hot! Quite a few still to this day very generously fave my social media content. Almost universally, I still feel fondly toward any guy I've ever been romantically interested in or involved with. And of course, there are men who I have kissed and cared about or who I am dying to kiss and care about. I don't! Some of my closest friends are men! I have, and love, many male family members: all of my siblings are boys, and there are seemingly thousands of them (there are five). "DO YOU REALLY HATE ALL MEN?" ask you, Bill Maher.
This book is loosely structured to mirror the arc of a relationship, from crushes to flirting, dating and encountering problems, getting serious, breaking up, being single, and … making art about it all! Ah, yes: the human life span. Honestly: it often sucks, and it's hard to know if it's because of my personality, the guy's personality, or thousands of years of inequality stemming from gender imbalances created by plow farming.
How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book about what dating and loving are like now, in an era that we thought was the end of patriarchy (but we now know is at least five hundred years away from that) and at the beginning of an age where robots do all our dating for us. Unsure what else to do about it, I've written this book. And also: how spending so much time thinking about how they, as a group, are hot … is probably oppressing me. And about how they, individually (Timothée Chalamet) and as a group, are very hot. About how they, individually (Donald Trump) and as a group, are oppressing me.
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