The humor here mainly consists of overusing 'like,' offering am-I-right-ladies style laments about modern men, recycling Twitter jokes about the author’s love of music made for teenagers (she is twenty-seven), and expressing disdain for great works of literature by men that she hasn’t read. In the end, Roberson’s insistence on feeling her pain and keeping it makes How to Date Men When You Hate Men a more radical text than it claims to be. Roberson’s achievement in remaining funny while excavating her pain is just straightforwardly heroic. it’s akin to watching a young woman coming to political consciousness in her personal relationships. How to Date Men When You Hate Men is extremely funny but also a document of timeless agony. The book proposes to advise a young reader how to navigate the political and practical problems of female heterosexuality, but ends up eviscerating Roberson’s own difficult romantic experiences and celebrating the sense of self she has won while on that journey. Roberson writes with scathing self-deprecation and ambitious analytical flair. In that sense it’s a contribution to the genre of satirical feminist prose. It’s written in a slightly hyperventilating style, full of all-caps emphasis and exclamation marks.
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