{"$schema":"https://ejfox.com/schema/page-twin@1.json","kind":"reading_item","url":"https://ejfox.com/reading/Shields-The%20Trouble%20with%20Men","json_url":"https://ejfox.com/reading/Shields-The%20Trouble%20with%20Men.json","generator":"ejfox.com/json-twin@1","data":{"cacheVersion":"2026-05-13-gear-cards","html":"<h1 class=\"\" id=\"the-trouble-with-men\">The Trouble with Men</h1>\n<ul class=\"list-disc\">\n<li class=\"\">ISBN: 0814255191</li>\n</ul>\n<h2 class=\"\" id=\"highlights\">Highlights</h2>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">I’ve never had the courage to want the world. I’ve always let it come to me, which of course is a rather passive approach to existence, but the funny thing is: inevitably, it comes. Sooner or later, whether I wanted it or not, the world came to me; it came at me, it keeps coming at me. ^ref-15080</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">Girls with asses like mine do not talk to boys with faces like yours. [Karen McCullah Lutz] ^ref-33935</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">(I wasn’t in love with you when we got married, but I am now, whereas I suspect the opposite is true for you.) ^ref-45275</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">Once, I asked Jack if he loved me. “Of course I love you,” he said. “Then why don’t you ever tell me?” “It would be like having to tell you I’m breathing,” he said. “It would be like if, in a movie, the hero turned to the woman just before they ran into a barrage of gunfire, took her hand, and said, ‘Doris, I’m breathing.’ I’ve always been breathing. It would be like having her say, ‘I know. I’m breathing, too.’” [Linker] ^ref-21482</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">While women today think the ’90s was when the look became popular, the first Playboy centerfold featuring a shaved vagina didn’t take place until about 2002. ^ref-35336</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">There is one woman whom fate has destined for each of us; if we miss her, we are saved. ^ref-404</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<blockquote class=\"md-blockquote\">\n<p class=\"text-zinc-600 dark:text-zinc-400\">The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. ^ref-11707</p>\n</blockquote>\n<svg class=\"mx-auto my-8 w-full max-w-prose\" height=\"1\">\n  <line x1=\"0\" y1=\"0\" x2=\"100%\" y2=\"0\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"1\" stroke-dasharray=\"2,4\" />\n</svg>\n<h2 class=\"\" id=\"metadata\">Metadata</h2>\n<ul class=\"list-disc\">\n<li class=\"\">Author: David Shields</li>\n<li class=\"\">ASIN: B07MT424DM</li>\n<li class=\"\">ISBN: 0814255191</li>\n<li class=\"\">Reference: <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MT424DM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"external-link group inline-flex items-center text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400\" data-preview-url=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MT424DM\">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MT424DM</a></li>\n<li class=\"\"><a href=\"kindle://book?action=open&#x26;asin=B07MT424DM\" class=\"text-blue-600 dark:text-blue-400\">Kindle link</a></li>\n</ul>","title":"The Trouble with Men","metadata":{"kindle-sync":{"bookId":"3371","title":"The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power (21st Century Essays)","author":"David Shields","asin":"B07MT424DM","lastAnnotatedDate":"2023-05-27","bookImageUrl":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81macwFNi8L._SY160.jpg","highlightsCount":7},"tags":["book","personal","culture","writing"],"words":287,"images":0,"imageDetails":{"total":0,"cloudinary":0,"withDimensions":0},"links":1,"codeBlocks":0,"headers":{"h1":1},"toc":[{"text":"The Trouble with Men","slug":"the-trouble-with-men","level":"h1","children":[{"text":"Highlights","slug":"highlights","level":"h2","children":[]},{"text":"Metadata","slug":"metadata","level":"h2","children":[]}]}],"type":"post"}},"_links":{"self":"https://ejfox.com/reading/Shields-The%20Trouble%20with%20Men.json","html":"https://ejfox.com/reading/Shields-The%20Trouble%20with%20Men","index":"/reading.json"}}