But I’m exclusively dating women at the moment, not because men are terrible (though some of them are), but because I think I’m more attracted to women, and I’m interested in exploring this side of myself. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Dating women involves less fear. The straight dating world comes with a series of unwritten, internalized scripts, and many of these scripts are rooted in misogyny and patriarchy. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementLesbian dating has its own unique challenges … and it also has most of the same challenges that straight dating does. So when straight women say they wish they were gay, maybe what they mean is they just wish dating were easier.
