[kcvl]

“That was not her,” he said. “That was an example of compression I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them. So that was a consideration. I thought that [the anecdote involving the reaction of a white girlfriend to the angry black play] was a useful theme to make about sort of the interactions that I had in the relationships with white girlfriends.

[bgill]

I was very sensitive in my book not to write about my girlfriends, partly out of respect for them

... but mainly because they're boyfriends.