point/counterpoint
"Love: Really Now, There Is No Topic More Depressing" is generally the theme of the Sunday
New York Times feature "
Modern Love," whose most famous installment chronicled the author's efforts to train her husband
as she might any other mammal of above-average intelligence. (Other columns have grappled with how hard it is to get into sex when you're a
stripper, the profound sense of alienation that follows an
unwanted divorce, how
dudes today are irredeemably awful and
women could potentially be worse, etc.) Yesterday's installment, the
winner of a college essay contest, did not diverge from this theme. The author, a woman born in the
late eighties, reflects on a few brief years spent dating noncommittal dudes in New York. "Over the summer there was the Jesuit taking a break from the seminary," she writes. He stopped calling after she refused to sleep with him on their third date. Now, clearly, she probably should have known better, since a dude just out of the seminary is not going to want to fuck around on second base (or whatever) but the overall message was kind of creepy-familiar, reminding me of this one time a friend and sometime fuck-buddy asked of me, "Who made you so cold?"
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