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Summary: Well Done Wozza!!!!!
Review: A real eye opener, not perfectly written but to the point and pioneering. I'm reading his other books now and I'm impressed by his attention to detail, a brave man, (he gets death threats)I'll support him all the way.
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Summary: Lets unite brothers and see how we're being wronged
Review: I believe this to be the most important book for man. And I am being gendered because this book is about men for men to stop taking the crap ew have been taking and feeling guilty for it. We've always secretely known that we weren't ever given a level playing field and here are the facts to back it up.This book made me so angry I have signed up to give money to a mens movement in britian and consider it the least I could do to help my brotherhood of men out there and myself. Against getting proper paternal leave when the child is born, or being made to be a bodyguard as well as the wallet on a date with a woman. Or the rising amount of male suicides that totally eclipses females. But this is not a female bashing book as some narrow minded feminists might expec but a call to unite and evolve into more stable, stronger and united front with feminism and against it. Read it and for gods sake act on it!! Or otherwise, as it was so eloquently put it "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". even if its just 5 dollars a month or buying this book. WE don't have to be helpless anymore
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Summary: Highlights Important Issues
Review: Warren Farrell does an excellent job in highlighting legitimate men's issues such as: domestic violence against men, Men's health ( it is MEN'S health that is underfunded ), Female chauvinism (belief that women are morally superior to men, as opposed to male chauvinism which is the belief that women are too irrational to fend for themselves), negative male stereotypes and violence againsst men in the media, the neglect paid to attrocities inflicted on non-combatant males (non-combatant men are civilians and deserve the same protection as women!) ...etc. Farrell also exposes feminist duplicity on many issues such as making excuses for violent behavior (there is no excuse for violence against WOMEN but feminists come up with tones of excuses for violence committed BY women against men), the draft, and sexism and discrimination. Also worth reading is Farrell's debunking of the notion that war is all men's fault and that women are more peace loving. Although most combatants in war are male most WOMEN have supported the causes that thier countries were fighting for and encouraged the men to fight and shamed those that did not. Where Farrell's book loses points however is that it advocates too much gender conformity. Farrell claims that traditional roles for Men and Women are destined to bring tham psychological harm and therefore must be socialized away from them. Thier is much evidence to refute those claims. That being said i believe that Men and Women have the right to be Feminine or Masculine and to seek partners with either one of those characteristics if they choose. Thier is nothing wrong with a man paying for a date... as long as the woman does something special to deserve it (like being sweet, gentle...etc). Farrell risks alienating many people who may be somewhat more conservative than him from the Men's movement. Another weakness of the book is it's focus on trivial issues such as male circumcision, paying for dates...etc. and the comparison between a raped woman and a terminated man are ludicrous. Men's activists should stick to important issues. Finally Warren Farrell is too soft on feminism. He claims that feminism started out as a benevolent movement of women who just want equality. If that were true then there would be no need for a men's movement as someone who really believes in "equality" would give equal consideration to issues where men are at a disadvantage. To date this simply has not happened. With honorable but few exceptions feminists tend to pound thier fists for women's issues but fence sit when it comes to men's issues. Thus they cannot claim to beleive in equality, the feminist movement represents selfish identity politics. Which is why in the 1960's they claimed that women were being oppressed because they had to make coffee a jobs no law required them to take while men were being drafted against thier will and sent to vietnam. Buy the book read it, and absorb the material on the real important stuff, but ignore the rest.
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Summary: A CD edition would be nice
Review: The Myth of Male Power is a landmark work in the field of gender studies (and sociology). I've heard a lot of good things about the audio release--a complementary interview rather than an abridged reading of the text. However, I don't want to listen to a hissy cassette. Please would the publisher put out a CD edition.
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Summary: inaccurate information
Review: It may seem trifling, but I don't understand why an author would go out of his way to print a claim that is not substantiated by any news source, not even the two inadequate ones he cites. I am speaking, of course, about his claim about Laurie Dann, in which he says: "At about the same time, a Chicago woman (Laurie Dann) shot five elementary school boys, poisoned food at two fraternities, burned down the Young Men's Jewish Council, burned two other
boys in their basement,13 shot her own son, and justified her murder of an 8-year-old boy by claiming he was a rapist. Not a single headline or article summary pointed out that every person killed or wounded by the Chicago woman was a boy.14 No government spent millions reeducating women on their attitudes toward men." Dann did not shoot five elementary school boys - two of her victims were girls. She left poisoned juice outside some fraternities and classroom buildings at Northwestern University. She never burned down a Young Men's Jewish Council - there is nothing in the news reports or the Eric Zorn book that indicates anything of the kind, and we must demand that Farrell account for this claim, because it certainly is not in the two sources he cites, one of which is a newspaper index. She also did not have a son, nor did she claim any 8-year-old was a rapist. Farrell must explain where he got these outright falsehoods. It is one thing to get your facts wrong - sloppy research and fact-checking can result in claims that are just a shade inaccurate. But whole anecdotes here have no basis whatsoever in fact. Moreover, why did he cite a newspaper index as his source, when the newspaper accounts from May of 1988 make it very clear what happened. At the very least, it is unprofessional. I would encourage readers to trace the sources of claims made in a book before rushing to praise it. I highly recommend the account by Eric Zorn (et al.), Murder of Innocence.
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Summary: How the system protects women at the expense of men
Review: All Males know most of the information contained in this book but it will help bring the issues from the background to the foreground. Sample these facts taken from the book: 1. Until boys and girls are 9, their suicide rates are identical but between ages of 20 to 24, male suicide rate is 6 times as high. And, for men over 85 it is 1350% higher. 2. Men are almost twice as likely as women to be victims of violent crimes and three times more likely to be victims of murder. 3. In restaurants, men pay for women about 10 times as frequently as women pay for men. 4. Both sexes buy more for women - on an average 7 times as much floor space is devoted to women's items as to men's. 5. Women watch more TV in every time slot. Shows are dependent on sponsors, so spending habits might control what is shown on TV? 6. A husband whose wife dies is 10 times more likely to commit suicide than a wife whose husband dies. 7. There are 3 times as many homeless men living on the streets by themselves as there are homelesss children, adolescents, and adult women combined. Warren Farrell has explained brilliantly why he thinks these facts should not come as a surprise. The male sex is really not the dominant sex in terms of a lot of things that are ascribed to being powerful like longevity and social influence. Farrell is not a female basher (For the Feminists: This is not exactly the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas) but he wants obvious facts to emerge. While reading I reminisced about an old joke that goes like this: One day in the Garden of Eden, Eve calls out to God...
"Lord, I have a problem!" "What's the problem, Eve?" "Lord, I know you've created me and have provided this beautiful garden and all of these wonderful animals, and that hilarious comedic snake, but I'm just not happy." "Why is that, Eve?" came the reply from above. "Lord, I am lonely. And I'm sick to death of apples." "Well, Eve, in that case, I have a solution. I shall create a man for you." "What's a 'man', Lord?" "This man will be a flawed creature, with aggressive tendencies, an enormous ego and an inability to empathize or listen to you properly. All in all, he'll give you a hard time. But, he'll be bigger, faster and more muscular than you. He'll also need your advice to think properly. He'll be really good at fighting and kicking a ball about, hunting fleet-footed ruminants, and not altogether bad in romantic pursuits." "Sounds great," says Eve, with an ironically raised eyebrow. "What's the catch, Lord?" "Yeah, well.... you can have him on one condition." "What's that, Lord?" "You'll have to let him believe that I made him first."
Now keeping jokes aside females really have a good deal at most places on the globe. After reading this book you will see even Taliban's oppressed women in a different light. Read about men's unpaid roles, your job as a man - being the bodyguard - everytime you are with a woman...any woman. Spending obligation of Men - which may lead a man to choose a career he likes less but pays more. Obligation to earn more money than a woman before she would love him. But on the other hand women have greater spending power and lower spending power obligation. Even a divorce means woman might receive the home a man pays for and custody of children the man pays for. Mostly society revolves around a single dictum which when stripped off its embellishments sounds like this - Popular girl is more a genetic celebrity and a popular boy more an earned celebrity. The more he is addicted to the genetic celebrity the more he must become an earned celebrity. Translation -> Formula 1 champ dates the Playboy model. This sounds harsh but has some truth to it. Historically, woman-as-victim attracts men (damsel in distress stories) but man-as-victim repulses women (I can't recall anything to contradict this). Farrell attributes this reflection of male low self-concept: a feeling that a man is worthy of a woman only if he can do something for her. Men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - the one woman they love. Maybe this is why a husband whose wife dies is 10 times more likely to commit suicide . Even the judicial system has different standards. Chances are women will receive much lighter sentences for the same crime committed as men. Remember how allegations brought Clinton down but jumpstarted Lewinsky's career. After reading this book both sexes will start to respect men more but I doubt as to how many women will be able to complete reading this book.
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Summary: Finally someone who speaks out on men's behalf
Review: I met a lot of very bright young women in college who unfortunately bought into the whole radical feminist propaganda. They saw injustices to women everywhere they looked. This left them with a measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction that was obvious even when they tried to hide it. Some of them had a clear resentment for males in general. I wish I had known about Warren Farrell's work back then, because he is the right author for them, the one who exposes the other side of the story. Dr Farrell confirms what many men have suspected for a long time: That egalitarian feminism of the 1960s has by now ballooned into state-sponsored female chauvinism. That if either gender is at a disadvantage, it has got to be the men. "The Myth of Male Power", like all Farrell's books that I read, is a very easy read, very shocking, almost entirely unbiased, and always grounded in facts. I am delighted that someone is finally speaking out for the men, and doing it in a non-confrontational and coherent fashion. It is striking that the reviews for this book are so starkly polarized. Most men are grateful to finally have someone voice their anger and are quick to hand out 5-star reviews. But a number of women are just as quick to stamp the book with 1-star ratings, dismissing it as a last gasp of patriarchal backlash against the gains of the women's movement. Sounds like it will take us decades to agree on this one, just like it took decades to get to where we are now.
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Summary: Farrell is Simply Brilliant
Review: Everyone should read this book. It's easy to read; anyone can understand it, though it's written by a Ph.D. It's fun to read, is another reason to read this book. But the most important reason to read this book is to be enlightened about some basic, critically important facts we miss as we're taught little else but victim/feminist propaganda. And most men won't speak out about these--heterosexual men probably don't even realize that they are unfairly demonized and hated by the mainstream, with no hard evidence to show they are the horrible monsters we think they are.
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Summary: Very insightful look at gender equality
Review: Men have been recieving negative reputation for decades and face claims that they have it all in our society. Society believes that men have everything handed to them on a silver platter and want for nothing.
This book does a great job of revealing the truth. To summarize, since the begining of humanity, males and females have *both* had their roles in society and *both* genders had to follow a plan in order for the race to merely SURVIVE. In the age we are in, pure survival itself is not as important in everyday life. So, women have taken the steps to break free of their previous "roles" as women and demanded that society allow them to do what they *want* to do, not what they *have* to do.
Unfortunately, the same is not true for men. While women have found liberation, men are still forced into their old "survival" roles of provider and protector at the expense of freedom. Men are still expected to be "men", while women are free to pursue the goals that they want to.
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Summary: backlash disguised as pro-equality
Review: I accidentally stumbled onto this book because an otherwise feminist article I was reading referred to it. I thought it might have some interesting insights into the way male power is constructed in our society (as opposed to a "natural" part of it). But this book was just another one of those whiny arguments about how men don't have all the privileges that they used to and are upset about it. Boo Hoo.
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