I wanted it to deal with more long-term romantic relationships as I have no interest in hook-up culture, but am (as previously stated) a hopeless romantic. Overall, this book had good insight, but focused primarily on casual relationships. But what do I know? I have virtually no romantic experience. It must have some truth to it, but I also think that the saying might be getting at the fact that you’re more likely to attract people when you’re just genuinely being your best self and feeling confident in who you are rather than trying to be a person you think someone would want to date. Roberson talks about the concept of romance happening “when you least expect it”, that oh-so-popular cliché that I’ve heard most of my life. I know few people with divorced parents and I definitely think you can have a good marriage that lasts most of your life. I didn’t like the part of the book where Roberson says that everyone will break up and that all her friends’ parents are divorced. She also references my favourite quote from Lady Bird about love and attention being the same thing. It’s like she’s taking a peek into my brain. “It lends itself to simultaneously believing that everyone is in love with me AND that I am inherently unlovable.” p. I’ve never related so much to a book about romance. She doesn’t get that Jude Law was great as young Dumbledore and that he wasn’t supposed to be 20, but that’s a different story. She gets that “mean flirting” is draining and not fun. She gets how it’s difficult to simultaneously want to date men while trying to dismantle the patriarchy. She gets how all-consuming and overwhelming crushes are. 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.As soon as I read the phrase, “Oscar Isaac’s thicc legs” on page 20, I knew that I wanted to be Blythe Roberson’s friend. 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.
Listen to an excerpt of Blythe Roberson's HOW TO DATE MEN WHEN YOU HATE MEN, read by the author.įrom New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy audiobook 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.
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