Throughout the course of chapter four, Vincent ventures into the tangled, confusing world of love and dating. She faces rejection, unfair stereotyping, pressuring expectations, and heavy burdens and generally finds dating to be significantly more difficult as a man. The chapter opens with Vincent pursing women (as a man) at a bar only to be coldly rejected.
Page 107 states, “The women who were hostile to me made me mad, and that made me want to be hostile to them…so the self-perpetuating cycle of unkindness and discontent would go on and on, feeding on itself. These women were mostly hostile in the first place because they felt that a man’s bad behavior had made them so, and the men they met behaved badly because hostility breeds contempt.” Her ideas are represented in the cycle above; dating is the central idea, surrounded by actions which continue the cycle, i.e. women’s initial hostility, men’s behavior and resulting attitudes, and rejection and discontent, with can be viewed both as a result and or cause of the incompatibility and sexual frustration between genders.
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