Against Heteropessimism
Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them. After, these women would return to their everyday lives immunized against the possibility of spilt coffees, logorrhea, elaborate pratfalls, and other farcical hazards.
- ▪Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard.
- ▪Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them.
- ▪After, these women would return to their everyday lives immunized against the possibility of spilt coffees, logorrhea, elaborate pratfalls, and other farcical hazards.
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Against HeteropessimismAccounting for the nature of straight women’s desire is hard. What to do about it?Clare Coffey24 July(Image: Penguin Random House)The Last Straight WomanOn Desiring Menby Phoebe Maltz BovySignal, 288 pp., $26ONCE, UPON THE ARRIVAL of an unusually handsome man in town and all the ensuing flustrations, I proposed a business idea to my friend: We would found a residential program for women who wanted to learn to cope with handsome men. Our clients, by residing at a remote wilderness work camp with a bevy of male models, would learn to act normal no matter what species of jaw and brow and forearm confronted them.
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