How to Date Men When You Hate Men

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Did you know that all the problems in the world are caused by men? Yup. And if you don't agree, you're part of the problem either because you're stupid or because the patriarchy has brainwashed you. *rolls eyes* From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. And really, was that date even a date in the first place?

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This is a tale of the 27-year-old author's meager dating life. I say meager, because the author believes she has never actually dated anybody. She occasionally talks about how she's "boned" and "boinked" numerous men. Dating has always involved strategy, some level of analysis and consideration of another person’s position. This can be tedious and fraudulent, but it can also be productive. In writing you might call it structure; in relationships, compromise. Both are necessary to communicate and deal with other people, not only because no one will ever care as much about what you want as you do, but also because without them the world would be a screaming crowd of unmet needs. The best dating advice I’ve ever given was to a man who wouldn’t leave me alone: You can ask for whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Book Genre: Adult, Autobiography, Essays, Feminism, Humor, Memoir, Nonfiction, Relationships, Self Help, Womens, Writing With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo." -- The New York Times

I can only speak for myself here, but it's very hard to excavate my own true desires from what I've been taught to want from movies, TV, women's magazines, and the advice of every single girl I went to middle school with," Roberson says. "This will be a life's work, I think!"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. Also as I said the title’s a trap, the author does not hate men, in-fact she is clearly very much obsessed by men and that too, in a very unhealthy way. The whole book is nothing but a collection of her thoughts which are just about kissing hot men??!! Was that supposed to be sarcastic? Because I so did not get the humour. I found it NOT AT ALL FUNNY. The writing is also extremely dry and repetitive and ohh so boring. DO YOU REALLY HATE ALL MEN???” ask you, Bill Maher. 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). And of course, there are men who I have kissed and cared about or who I am dying to kiss and care about. Almost universally, I still feel fondly toward any guy I’ve ever been romantically interested in or involved with. These men are funny and interesting. Some are really kind! Many are hot! Quite a few still to this day very generously fave my social media content. To paraphrase the suffragettes in Mary Poppins: though I adore men as individuals, I believe that as a group they’re systemically oppressing women. Roberson's achievement in remaining funny while excavating her pain is just straightforwardly heroic." -- The New Republic When you're inside a giant societal trend, it can be hard to see that something big is happening and [easy to] instead feel like a disgusting goblin because you've failed to trap a man," Roberson says. "However: It's normal. Women don't have to structure their lives around men. A lot more women are single! It's an actual thing that is happening."

Coming up with narrative structure that are not only entertaining but also socially responsible is one of the actual long-term useful things that writers can do.”In the same breath in which she becried the wrongful representation of women (either in movies, books or ads) she talked about her wardrobe and shoes worse than any cliché I've ever seen/heard. And, once again, not in a funny way.