To paraphrase the suffragettes in Mary Poppins: though I adore men as individuals, I believe that as a group they’re systemically oppressing women. 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). 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.ĭO YOU REALLY HATE ALL MEN? ask you, Bill Maher. 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. 'With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo' With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date Good Flirts That Work Bad Flirts That Do Not Work and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You’ve Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them. And really, was that date even a date in the first place?

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. 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.īlythe 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.

How to date men when i hate men