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hanthom 's review for:
How to Date Men When You Hate Men
by Blythe Roberson
The author is funny, and the writing was clever. I definitely found the more thought out sections really funny. However, there’s basically zero tying of her own experiences to systemic oppression of women except for some scattered statistics that are frankly hardly ever cited (like.... that’s fucked up to not cite work that isn’t yours). Maybe I didn’t understand what this book was before reading it, but it made it hard to enjoy. She also posits every “theory” as one of her own making & doesn’t cite studies that I know exist that prove the points she writes about. I’m mainly thinking of the men living longer/getting more benefits from marriage & men claiming more often than women that their partners are their best friends/closest confidants but I’m sure there are others.
But my entire opinion on this book is summed up with being incredibly confused by how little self awareness the author has of the way her thoughts come across in over 300 pages. There’s really very little thoughtfulness in how she builds a sentence, paragraph, section, chapter, or the whole book. She would often undo her own “original” thesis within the span of 3 paragraphs. Also, she claims we don’t need more “white hetero media” but yet.... wrote this book..?
But my entire opinion on this book is summed up with being incredibly confused by how little self awareness the author has of the way her thoughts come across in over 300 pages. There’s really very little thoughtfulness in how she builds a sentence, paragraph, section, chapter, or the whole book. She would often undo her own “original” thesis within the span of 3 paragraphs. Also, she claims we don’t need more “white hetero media” but yet.... wrote this book..?