How to Date Men When You Hate Men

There’s a double wedding, Hugh Grant throws coins on everyone’s head, and for all we know they drive into a pond and immediately drown

The quote that convinced me to read The Beauty Myth: “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience.

Says Barthes: “I thought I was suffering from not being loved, and yet it is because I thought I was loved that I was suffering; I lived in the complication of supposing myself simultaneously loved and abandoned.” Like: as an act of charity I decided to become obsessed with you when I could tell you were secretly and shyly into me.