Roxane Gay
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Or they have to buff up and do this and do that.
And it's like, no, they have to be millionaires.
It's like, if that were the case, no man.
Would be having affection and relationships.
You don't have to do that.
You have to have a personality.
And that's too much work for a lot of young men who feel like their grandfathers and maybe even their fathers just had to exist and have a penis.
And women would somehow treat that like a honing beacon and they would just sort of geolocate with their vaginas.
I think some of them do because –
I have to say, men always accuse me of hating men, which I don't.
Or like, you must only know terrible men.
And the fact is that I only know impeccable men.
The men in my life are outstanding.
They're hilarious.
And they're men.
They're not like some sort of neutered version of a woman.
They're men.
Some of them are even bros.
I don't care.
What they do is respect women.