Second: The Last Straight Woman is as much an appreciation of British sitcoms, and an ode to the blue-haired, polyester-clad matrons who inhabit them, as it is anything else. Sometimes it seems to land Maltz Bovy in what is often called “heteropessimism.” Maltz Bovy is correct that the most direct and object-oriented form of straight female desire is real, and often ignored. For instance, Maltz Bovy asks “And if female sexuality is responsive, what even is a no, anyway?” On one hand, Maltz Bovy teases out something I have not seen anyone else get at.