Mike Nesmith: Hi, I’m Robert Michael Nesmith, and I want the world to know I love women. I completely adore and totally respect women. I’m probably the biggest male feminist on planet earth. My own mother is one of the most important feminists in the history of the universe, and she said she was proud of me supporting Women’s Lib. Songs like ‘Never Tell a Woman Yes’ and ‘Get Out of My Life, Woman’? Absolutely 100% fictional narratives and not a reflection on my own morals. Nope, not a single iota of chauvinism in this body. 😎
Jan Freeman: Mike Nesmith and I have a connection I can’t even really describe. The day we met, we had this long, beautiful walk on the beach and then the next thing I know, I broke up with my boyfriend just so I could spend more time with Mike. He completely changed my whole life, he’s just that magical and amazing. 🥰🥰
Valerie Kairys: Mike Nesmith is the perfect man. So handsome, so smart, so talented, so charming. Swoon. He has the best blend of masculine and sensitive, and can make you feel confident and beautiful at the same time. OMG, I’m gonna cry, he’s so wonderful 😭😭
Winona Ryder: Mike Nesmith is AWESOME. When I was 15, he took me to a Monkees concert and some other Hollywood events, and called me a lovely, fetching, young girl. 😊
Barbara Hamaker: Michael Nesmith might be the most cerebral, anal-retentive person I’ve ever met. Great talker though.
Keith Allison: When Mike Nesmith and I were schoolmates at San Antonio College, there would always be 4 or 5 great looking, folkie type girls sitting at Mike’s feet while he strummed an acoustic guitar on a bench. He kept hogging all the chicks.
Nurit Wilde: For about 8 months, Mike Nesmith let me secretly live in his La Cienega penthouse as long as I never invited any of my male friends over. It was kind of a bummer not being able to hang out with Jackson Browne as much, but the sex with Mike was hot and the rent was free, so I guess it was worth it.
Kathryn Bild: Michael Nesmith is a boomer ass cliché who left me for a teenager. He and his mom convinced me to stop going to the doctor and the dentist too.
Victoria Kennedy: Mike Nesmith called me the love of his life, but he also treated me like a child a lot of the time, and probably shouldn’t have gotten involved with me when I was 19 and he was a 44-year-old married man.
Carole King: Mike Nesmith was once so rude to me when I was trying to help him finish writing a song that I ended up running out of the room crying. He also called my music crap.
Marilyn Schlossberg: Mike Nesmith chained me to a file cabinet for his own amusement the day I met the Monkees.
Rochelle Reed: Mike Nesmith slut-shamed me and refused to cooperate for my interviews.
Ann Moses: Mike Nesmith belittled me, propositioned me and sabotaged me when I was literally just doing my job. He insisted he only harassed me to get me to write a ‘real’ article, but then he still ignored me when I reunited with the Monkees in 2013, soooo 🤷♀️
Phyllis Barbour: Michael Nesmith humiliated me, set back my creative potential and pretty much stalled my life for a whole decade. But he also gave me three wonderful children, so at least there’s that…
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