Blythe Roberson

though I adore men as individuals, I believe that as a group they’re systemically oppressing women.

For my family, who should not read this book

We’re at a point where it’s clear that patriarchy exists and that gender roles—the concept of gender, even—is profoundly broken. I won’t sit here and PROVE patriarchy to you, like my high school crush once asked me to (specifically telling me to cite more statistics and be less emotional—but more on that later!).

Fifty-three percent of white women voted for Trump; we really need to have a group meeting and reevaluate our commitment to not being villains to everyone.

As people who do face discrimination but also have a lot of privilege, we have a responsibility to use our privilege to … dismantle our privilege.

Why get married when marriage benefits men in almost every way but makes women more likely to die a violent death?

Not every single one of my thoughts/tweets/breaths/farts is, like, Mediated Through My Gender Identity.

all men have received this coding. They aren’t born evil, they’re born into an evil system! It just didn’t sound as catchy to name the book How to Date Men When They Are Born into and Brainwashed by an Evil System That Mightily Oppresses Women

And also, I never understand ANY text ANY man sends me and I NEED the collective brainpower of Earth’s women to figure out how to respond.

Plus, dating advice is boring and I don’t care about it. And advice books seem to be weirdly gendered—women are made to give solutions to discrete, manageable situations, whereas men get to write philosophical grand thoughts that are no immediate help to anyone.