If not, go find one of her specials on Netflix. The point I want to highlight from her book is spoiler alert not really part of any of her stand-up specials. There are a few factors that bring a girl to cultivate more friendships with guys than with other girls. Around them you can say anything, be anything. I was never the most feminine of women. Makeup was a mystery to me until I turned 25, which was the same age when I finally learned how to properly blow-dry my hair. Before that, I used to think of hair driers as something for emergencies only. Hanging out with boys so much has that effect. There are so many questions involved in hanging out with girls. Like, how much boy talk is too much boy talk?

Being a guys’ girl is all fun and games — until you realize you’ve been the one in play all along.


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This article was first published in Hey, I'm not going to womansplain feminism to the readers of Esquire! That's not happening on my watch! You're sophisticated, 21st century men with a copy of the El Bulli cookbook, a timeless pair of investment brogues and a couple of Joni Mitchell albums — for when you want to sit in your leather armchair, and have a little, noble, necessary man-cry. You've got sisters, mothers, lovers — female friends and colleagues — and you've never once gone up to any of them shouting, "Blimey! You don't get many of those to the pahnd! You're down with the sisterhood. You've got eyes.
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It's simple. I'm sorry, but no. Cut to you feeling like you did something wrong, but let me assure you: You probably did nothing wrong, he probably just wasn't ready. And let me tell you, if a guy isn't ready, it doesn't matter how perfect of a person you are.
But Nita, now 20, is the only one of her brothers and sisters who is going to get a degree. A few of her sisters began college, and one nearly completed nursing school, she told me. Her brothers were less interested.