How to Date Men When You Hate Men Quotes

“instead of something meaningful, like … nuclear proliferation? I was like: Can’t women write about anything other than dating and their anxiety disorders? And then I was like [writes book about dating].”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“And also: how spending so much time thinking about how they, as a group, are hot … is probably oppressing me.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“Salinger’s obsession with privacy seems a lot less quirky when you learn that he had a lifelong pattern of inappropriate emotional and sexual attachments to teen girls.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“A “nice guy” is a man who feels it is a huge sacrifice to treat women with human dignity.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“many millennial men treat the women they sleep with badly and treat their friends much better.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“Women have been channeling creativity into romance and taught by society to crush on these Eligible Bachelors for so long that it’s very easy to confuse artistic and career admiration for romantic admiration. Like Nora Ephron writes in I Remember Nothing: “I can’t remember which came first—wanting to be a journalist or wanting to date a journalist.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“One time I Facebook friend requested a crush and he used that as an excuse to text me; I almost fainted. Conversely! I once followed on Twitter someone I had hooked up with, and he did not follow me back until I directly told him that he had an obligation to. If you frenched someone THAT WEEK then you have to follow them back on Twitter! It’s protocol!”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“And, to be fair, we are very motivated to imagine signals where they don’t exist. It is easy to feel, in this society that is so aggro about pushing coupledom and about basing women’s worth on their fuckability, that the existence of any person who is not attracted to you in some way demeans you.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“I am a goblin, sure, but only because I am small, mischievous, and greedy for gold and jewelry.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“Was it a date?”: the question of our generation. Not in importance, obviously—that’s “How do we dismantle white-supremacist capitalist patriarchal power structures?” and “Are we already 100 percent screwed with regard to global warming?” and “Is Amelia Earhart still alive out there?” But “Was it a date?” is our question in terms of being genuinely more difficult to answer now than at previous points in history.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men

“There do exist reasons to internet stalk someone that aren't sad or creepy: maybe you just remembered this person for the first time in fifteen years, maybe you're going on a first date and want to make sure their Twitter handle isn't @LoveToDismemberWomen,
maybe you just started watching Riverdale and you need to know where KJ Apa was born, his height, his age, what his accent sounds like, his natural hair color, and whether or not he reads books.”
― Blythe Roberson, 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.”
― Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men