5/10/2023 0 Comments Difficult Women by Roxane Gay![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I guess that’s just an obsession of mine. … I do try to put good men into my stories, but there are more bad men than good. And so, you know, I think it’s because I have an amazing father and amazing brothers - it’s knowing how many good men are out there that allows me to explore the men who are difficult, who make horrible decisions. My dad is always like, “What did I do?” And I’m like, “Nothing!” He’s - my dad’s amazing. The men in these stories are oftentimes not great men. It could absolutely be called Difficult Men. On the book’s messed up fathers and abusive boyfriends … I love exploring that sort of danger of who do you trust, who do you turn to when you never know who’s a predator and who is promising? She’s an engineer, which is a male-dominated field, and so she and women who are in that field are often grappling with being a professional and acting professionally and having the men around them see them as a personal conquest and as dating fodder, rather than a colleague with whom they can be professional. On “North Country,” a story about a woman engineer in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula ![]()
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