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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...
...think of taking submissions from guys? Dubelman: We originally tried to make it more mixed, but all the men's stories that came in were the same: "She was so hot, but she was crazy." There wasn't a whole lot of depth to that. Davilman: Those were their submissions. They were like, "Here is what was wrong with her: this and this and this and this." And you get to the end and there's still no acceptance of responsibility or any self-awareness...
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...