Blythe Roberson
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New Yorker and Onion writer Blythe Roberson's new book How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedic philosophy book about what it means to...
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“Crushes are basically love energy within yourself that you use the idea of another person to access.”
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
“Even more than I hate commodifying myself, I hate men judging me as a commodity. For thousands of years, women have been throughout their lives reduced to their worth as sexual objects (slash domestic workers). We learn very early on to go to great lengths to increase our sexual value in the eyes of men, without even realizing that’s why we’re (for example) agonizing over whether our one snack for the day should be a pear or a seventy-calorie sugar-free yogurt. For years—much of my childhood and early twenties—I spent the largest portion of my conscious thought on food and how much I hated and was terrified of my body. It has taken a lot of work to divorce my view of my body and my feelings of romantic worthiness from outside sources. I’m afraid apps would undermine that effort.”
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
“To feel joyful about love, you have to feel that you’ve opted into it, not that you’ve been forced to participate in it through your decision to be born.”
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
― How to Date Men When You Hate Men
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