Why The Term ‘Hopeless Romantic’ Bugs Me

emilylrking
The C Word Mag
Published in
2 min readMar 11, 2020

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I hate the phrase ‘hopeless romantic’.

It’s paints a rather putrid image for me, as if I am some hysterical woman running around London, desperate for even an inkling of male attention.

It begs the question of romance being somehow hopeless for certain women. That there is a gaggle of gals running around every major city in the world, frothing at the mouth at the…

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