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9 reviews for:
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men
3.09 AVERAGE
9 reviews for:
Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men
3.09 AVERAGE
When I picked up this book I thought it might strike some kindred chord, since I am a straight woman who has friendships with gay men. It did not. Only two of the essays I could relate to and they had better outcomes than my personal experiences.
It was interesting to read the essays from the gay man's point of view rather than the straight woman's. Still the book seemed to be missing something. I wasn't looking for juicy details but I think I was looking for more of a -why- straight women have friendships with gay men or -why- they seek out friendships with gay men. Only a couple essays addressed this, most were tellings of actual events that brought a straight woman and gay man together or their lifelong friendship.
It was interesting to read the essays from the gay man's point of view rather than the straight woman's. Still the book seemed to be missing something. I wasn't looking for juicy details but I think I was looking for more of a -why- straight women have friendships with gay men or -why- they seek out friendships with gay men. Only a couple essays addressed this, most were tellings of actual events that brought a straight woman and gay man together or their lifelong friendship.
informative
fast-paced
DNF. It wanted to be empowering but it was demeaning to both gay men and women (not just straight ones).
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
irrelevant to me now, but the line "haggus fabulous ceased roaming the earth about a quarter of a century ago" will stay with me forever. very nice to know love existed between the gays and the fag hags, at some point in time...
Pretty much my high school life story summed up in a more adult context.
Stupid, stupid book. There was about one good story, about a gay man who's highschool girlfriend offers to have a baby for him and his partner. Besides that, there were so many mentions of Barbara Streisand, how fabulous gay men are, and how straight the straight women's husbands were that I wanted to die.
I liked it, but I wanted to like it so much more. It was way too New-York-centric and the essays were all very similar to each other. There were a couple of pieces that stood out to me though, and it does do a fine job of celebrating these relationships. A feel-good, light read- nothing very political or earth-shattering here. It's just exactly what one might expect, which can be a good thing if you don't want to be surprised or challenged.
All of the essays in this collection are fine representations of the theme and none of the essays in this collection particularly stand out to me; they really feel like commissioned pieces, rather than organic contemplations. The pieces I enjoyed more than others were authored by Andrew Soloman, Ayelet Waldman, and Bennett Madison. I'm glad I read it, but I wouldn't recommend it for anything other than as a travel/filler read; borrow it from the library next time you're going to be on plane, train, etc.
Pretty much my high school life story summed up in a more adult context.