RE: how to talk to a man (buono)

I agree with this post in a sense that I think it was wrong of Houston to generalize the hunter to all men and the fact that she must have had difficult relationships with men in order to make such a general stereotype like that. Although it is a bit harsh, I don't think it's meant to be seen as offensive. I find it interesting that the narrator is so good at 'talking to the hunter'. It seems that she knows exactly what to say to kind of "play the game" that is this relationship. I think for Houston to write something that specific, when having to do with a relationship, she would have had to gone thorugh something similar. I do think stereotyping is wrong but Houston does have a premise for this since this isn't the first I've seen of this kind of relationship. It is seen in movies, on telivision, and in other works of literature, which says that not everyone made it up. I also disagree with the statement made that every relationship has to play out like this. It doesn't. This is just one example of a common type of relationship. I also overall enjoyed the story.

How to follow your own advice when you talk to a hunter

In How to talk to a Hunter the narrator tries to convey to the reader how in fact to talk to a hunter. Not only in a sense that a hunter who hunts game or wild life, but one that hunts women. Throughout the story she gives tips on how to get close but not too close, lust but not love, and most importantly, to like the idea of it all but not think it as reality. With these tips she tries to tell the readers how to act around men like the hunter, but it seems that through telling the readers she is telling herself. She is giving all these "how to's" on a relationship with a man like the hunter but can't follow her own advice.You would think that she would listen to her own advice, but normally people never do and this story is no exception.
Every time she mentions "you" in the story, she is talking to herself. These are all things she has to tell herself to survive this relationship. But not once does she say 'you need to end it' or 'why are you still with him', she just keeps on making excuses or alternate tips for avoiding the dreaded breakup. I think she does this to create the argument that she IS in fact following her own advice, she just won't say what it the common sense thing to do, which is to end this intracate puzzel of a relationship. And even though this relationship is rough, part of her doesn't know what she would do without that in her life.