Autorentext

Blythe Roberson

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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.

Blythe 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. 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. And really, was that date even a date in the first place?

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.

"With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo"

• The New York Times

  Inhalt

  Introduction 000

  1. Crushes 000
     Joy
     Crushes
     It's Not About You
     Boy Crazy
     One-Track Mind
     Interesting Topics to Think and Talk About That Are Not Some Dude You Hung Out with Two and a Half Times but Never Kissed
     Blurry-Faced Crushes
     Sure, Okay
     Man Management
     Categories for My Crush-Tracking App

  2. Flirting 000
     Signals
     Text Interpretation
     Using My Four-Year College English Degree to Close-Read Texts from Men
     I Know It When I See It
     Men I Thought Were Flirting with Me, and Why
     Digital Flirting
     Good Flirts That Work
     Bad Flirts That Do Not Work
     Stealing
     Touching
     Missed Connections

  3. Dating 000
     Defining The Date
     Ways to Make It Clear It's a Date
     Apps
     Good Analog Places to Meet Men
     Date the Person You Want to Be in the World
     Performative Chillness
     Ways to Kill Time While You're Waiting to Answer a Text
     Being Chill
     The Rules Versus My Rules If I Wrote a Dating How-To Book
     Talking To
     Schrödinger's Relationship
     This ISN'T a Date!

  4. Psychic Wounds 000
     Men Weaponizing the Bechdel Test
     Scale of One to Ten
     A Better Ranking Scale, for Men I Am Into
     PDA
     Acceptable and Nonacceptable PDA Locations
     Will They or Won't They
     The Best Rom-Coms of All Time and How They Ruined Me
     Being Mean
     Hello, Its Mr. Nasty: Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You've Got Mail
     Romantic Friendship
     Blah Blah Blah "My Girlfriend"
     Professionally Insecure Woke Boys
     Types of Men Who Are Bad
     Types of Men Who Are Great

  5. Getting Serious 000
     "Defining" the "Relationship"
     Long-Distance
     Living Together
     Negotiables
     Marriage Is Bad and I Am for Sure Going to End Up Married to the First Person Who Asks Me

  6. Breaking Up 000
     Love Is Fake
     Rejection Is Good
     Ways to Break Up with Someone You Aren't Dating
     Breakup Clichés
     Lines I Would Prefer Men Use When Rejecting Me
     Ghosting
     Internet Stalking
     What I Am Hoping Comes Up When I Internet Stalk People
     Pop Culture Anniversaries
     Getting Back Together
     Love Amnesia
     Oh, Haha, We Used to Kiss
     How to Get the Perfect Revenge Body

  7. Being Single 000
     Full Tree
     Prose Before Bros
     Comfort
     When You Least Expect It

  8. Making Art 000
     Making Art About Your Relationships
     Subtweets
     Subtweets, Arranged by Who They Are About
     People Making Art About You
     The Pay Is Certain

  Conclusion 000
  Acknowledgments 000