Confesh time: A few years back, as a monogamist who couldn't seem to find the right person to be monogamous with, I actually read He's Just Not That Into You, even though everyone I knew was making fun of it. Though I don't recall much about it now, I seem to remember thinking of it as a guilty pleasure. And after a period of reading a few of these relationship advice books and stashing them under my bed where they wouldn't be seen, I got over it.
But now Hollywood is making sure the much-heralded, much-derided phrase "He's Just Not That Into You" lingers on, with the release of the rom com of the same name, this Friday.
Salon's Broadsheet got a panel of writers together to summarize and/or revisit their thoughts on the HJNTIY phenomenon. Overall, they're not thrilled with it, but not everyone in the group is against it, either.
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