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Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman have written a book - with the help of 54 other women. In What Was I Thinking: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories they write of the men they have dated, the men they have dumped, the men they should have dumped and the men they wish they had never met. There's the woman whose porn-star boyfriend dumps her for being too promiscuous, the college girl who dates a fanatical Barbie fan, the woman who overhears her date calling her fat and dozens of other guys who just weren't good enough. Davilman and Dubelman talk...
...write that you found some of the book's many contributors through Craigslist ads. Did that really work? Dubelman: Some of them came that way. There are stories still coming in. We have a website that we put them on. Some of the stories even turned into videos on Slate...
Yikes. That doesn't speak so well for men. Dubelman: But then after they read this book, we got more stories that were a little more shaded, had more color. They realized what the stories should be about. I think they get it now. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...your book didn't come off as being that awful. Dubelman: They're not awful! Davilman: They're not! Dubelman: We love men! Davilman: They just weren't right for those women, that's all. I'm really glad the book didn't devolve into male-bashing. It's really about the women and the things they didn't see. Dubelman: Or saw and ignored. Davilman: Or couldn...
Have you gotten feedback from any of the men who were written about? Dubelman: I got a lot of Facebook messages from old boyfriends who said, "The book's great - I'm not that guy, am I?" Davilman: Liz got an e-mail from a guy I wrote about in the book. He asked to get in contact with me. And I said yes because we didn't end on terrible terms. Dubelman: I'm not 100% sure he knew he was the guy in the book. Davilman: He did not know! So I wrote him back and I said...