Your Evening Awesome: 'You're The Worst's' Lindsay Asked Matt McGorry About Feminist Dating

By Vivian Kane | Celebrity | July 28, 2015 |

By Vivian Kane | Celebrity | July 28, 2015 |

One of the best things about Twitter is when two people you admire separately are suddenly interacting in front of your very eyes, sometimes about super cool stuff like feminism or where to fid the best doughnuts. (The worst thing about Twitter is pretty much everything else.) That’s what happened over the weekend, when Kether Donohue, AKA Lindsay from You’re the Worst:

—proved she’s nobody’s Kelly Rowland by starting an awesome dialogue with Matt McGorry on his new favorite subject: feminism.

@MattMcGorry Does being a male feminist change how you date or the "courtship" process?If so, how? #ChallengingQuestionsInFeminism

— Kether Donohue (@MsKetherDonohue) July 25, 2015

And Matt McGorry, as per usual, put way more time and thought into his answer than pretty much anyone else would have.

If the alternative is being a misogynist, then absolutely! But it's probably a bit complicated to put into tweets https://t.co/zh0P1EBOq3

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

Complicated, yes. But he did his best anyway.

1. I'm sure there are some feminists who have tons of one night stands and some who have never had one at all. So I… @MsKetherDonohue

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

2. tend to think there's still a ton of variation in preference. And for someone that only has sex in relationships for… @MsKetherDonohue

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

3. example, it could either be a comfort necessary for intimacy or that they feel it's "slutty" to behave otherwise… @MsKetherDonohue

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

4. The latter being certainly less in line with ideals of feminism (and not judging people for their sexual preferences) @MsKetherDonohue

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

5. even with the same outcome of not being interested in one night stands. Alternatively, there are some things that I would say preclude

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

6. people from being feminists even if they called themselves one. Such as physically abusing or sexually assaulting women. Also worth

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

7. noting is that you can be (or identify as) a feminist and STILL be an asshole or a terrible person to date. And I'm sure the quality of

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

8. ones romantic partner is often very related to their self awareness (for me at least). Hopefully calling oneself a feminist comes with

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

9. SOME degree of self awareness and how your actions impact others, but I'm sure there's a great range in there. I like how I said it'd be

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

10. complicated to put into tweets but then attempted it anyway. :) Appreciate the great question, let's discuss more ☺️ @MsKetherDonohue

— Matt McGorry (@MattMcGorry) July 25, 2015

Yes, I’m pretty sure it is, Lindsay.