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Summary: couldn't stop reading once I started
Review: I first read this book when I was 13 yrs old for an advanced english class to complete a debate assignment on men's rights.This book was immensely helpful and also very absorbing. It gave me a lot to think about and was written in an "easy-to-understand" way. I realized that men's rights are just as important as women's rights. This book contained many facts and convincing information and introduced me to a new way of thinking. I recommend this book for everyone of all ages... even if you don't have the slightest interest in men's rights, this book will have you reading nonstop. :o) Right now, I am 17 yrs old (a girl) and I will gladly read it again.
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Summary: A Book which is sensitive to both genders
Review: When I read The Myth of Male Power it was the book I was waiting for. When Farrell was working to empower women he encouraged them to climb the corporate ladder. He thought that's what they wanted. But they said power was about having more socially acceptable choises. Women have gained more choises. The myth of male power isn't about trying to claim men don't run governments and corporations. I'ts about more socially acceptable choices for men and how the single role men are channelled into is destructive to men, women, and their children. I am a psychology graduate and worked in homes for wayward teens in the seventies, and subsequently worked in shelters for single women, men, and families. I intervened in hundreds of domestic disputes. I've seen women tragically battered, and I've also seen the suicidal dispair of men trapped in a set of social rules and expectations that they can't meet. I wish this book would have been available when I was doing that w! ork. This book, and Why Men Are the Way They Are have provided me with a framework to understand men and women in a way I never thought possible. And they provide a constructive way to grasp the so called gender issues and head into the future. Read this book, and Why Men Are the Way They Are. I have given this book to friends, doctors, psychologists, lawyers -- anyone who would make a commitment to read it. Their doubt quickly truns to facination and in the end they, like me, are astounded at what we thought we knew but actally didn't.
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Summary: A Catalyst for Truth and Repair
Review: America is now suffering from the inevitable and predictable consequences of a decades-long, sexist-driven propaganda campaign mounted by the pathologically malcontent "feminist left". No one "stole" feminism; it was sexist, unbalanced, and antisocial from its incipience. Throughout most of my memorable life, the concept of female victimhood, allegedly a result of the intentional monolithic actions of a male dominated society, was disseminated via a willing or unwitting media via a litany of "big lie" myths. Until now, much of this agenda-driven misinformation had gone unchallenged. Hateful misandrogenous social outcasts have had free rein over the airways and in the printed word allowing countless daily misrepresentations of reality while "political correctness", really just a euphemism that refers to the defensive aspect of societal brainwashing, has been institutionalized to preempt any fair examination of the issues. The ! result is the diseased state of gender relations that exists today. What is the therapy for this affliction? A good dose of the truth. The Myth of Male Power is just that. It is perhaps the first significant effort by anyone to define a starting point on a course toward healing. In it, the balance of power and privilege between the genders is finally presented in an accurate and verifiable work that is certain to propel many women into a new mode of reality testing and fairness in their thinking, while offering to many men a soothing confirmation that common sense is still alive and well. Equally important, however is the fact that book excavates beneath the already apparent but repressed, and exposes the more subtle, seldom considered aspects of life that lend credence to its title. I strongly recommend this book to any open-minded person capable of processing new ideas, who wants an enlightened perspective into the true context in which the current power strug! gle between the genders in our society is taking place. Th! is of course excludes radical feminists, in which case reading the work may not only be a waste of materials, but for cognitive mental health reasons, it may be contraindicated.
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Summary: Something Completely Different
Review: Something Completely Different For those who have everwondered if there wasn't just a little bit more to the story of the"War between the Sexes" than the official version supplied by gender feminists; Author Warren Farrell's landmark book "The Myth of Male Power" provides an amazing amount of information invariably censored by the current P.C. limits on "debate" (such as it is). With his pioneering work Farrell has also stepped on some serious toes, and threatened the "empowerment" gravy train of any number of activists, who are not at all happy about seeing these facts in print. It is probably this more than any other facet of his work, that so enrages those who make their living pedaling the propaganda of Ms.Andry (hatred of men), which depends so much on silencing the voices of those chosen as their scapegoats. Our media, when not trying to portray him as a reactionary or buffoon, has gone to great lengths to downplay this book and Farrell's contributions to the debate about gender issues. For instance, the Sunday book review for a major west coast newspaper declined to include his book in it's reviews, and instead ran a pro / con debate in another section, featuring a militant gender feminist trashing the book... And "renegade lesbian feminist" Camille Paglia defending it. But no male voices, and certainly not Farrell himself, lest the papers be accused of going too far in pandering to "diversity". Some have tried to label Farrell a "Sage / Guru" ( usually just before denouncing him ), and others have said far worse, yet Farrell aspires to be neither macho sage or tree hugging guru. Rather he is someone who is making his own journey of discovery, and inviting us to share his own insights and those gathered from actually listening to other men, however politically incorrect doing that may be. Far from offering the final word with total certainty (as gender feminism so often does ) Farrell challenges us to accept the fact that there is more to the story than is being told ( at least officially ), and offers as the reward a chance to discover answers that do not lead to dead ends of accusation. Like other works with the courage to honestly question ( "Who Stole Feminism" By Hoff Sommers & "Professing Feminism" by Patai and Koertge come to mind ) "The Myth of Male Power" can lead to some disturbing changes in your ability to buy into the current P.C. Belief package. More simply said: it "debunks" common misconceptions in a readily understandable manner, and provide plausible alternative views based on known but seldom mentioned facts, and lets you make up your own mind about what it really means. Perhaps it took a male feminist who actually believed in the hype about "Equality" of the early days, to genuinely look for ways to build bridges towards equality, and recognize that lies and half truths provide a poor fo! undation for anchoring the supports of such a bridge. With the "Myth of Male Power" Farrell does a credible job of surveying the shoddy work of the gender feminist "social engineers" in surveying the 'male' shore, where the bridge is supposed to land after the feminist tower is constructed on the opposite side. His work is a strong report on the task ahead if such a bridge is to become a reality, as well as a critique on the mindset that produced the current bridge to nowhere, which is only suitable at present for jumping off of. Good Read *****
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Summary: confirmation of all the hunches men have of the real facts
Review: As a lawyer practicing exclusivly in family law I find The Myth of Male Power to be exactly what the doctor ordered for my male client's getting smashed by the legal system that is so biased against their interests, their spirit and their dreams. Every single man and woman I have referred the book to have found it profound.
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Summary: A MUST read for any who seek healing between the sexes
Review: As a TV/radio reporter and talk show host, I've not only read this book but spoken with many others who have -- as well as interviewed the author himself. Working first in southern California, then in upstate New York, I've been struck by how many people from all walks of life find Dr. Farrell's writings as helpful, enlightening and uplifting as I did. The author has a gift of speaking to both women and men, telling us things crucial to understand about one another, WITHOUT casting blame on either gender. As I've spoken with other MYTH OF MALE POWER readers in person, or listened to them respond to this author during his appearances on my talk shows, it has been my observation that women seem to delight in the tenderness and compassion with which this social scientist approaches his subject while men are simply shocked and overjoyed to see in print things they felt no one would ever speak of out loud. The only people I have seen consistently crit! ! icize this work are those with an apparent overwhelming attachment to that small twisted tangent of the women's rights movement now known as victimhood feminism. I once reported on a campus seminar led by Dr. Farrell. The audience of close to a thousand contained people of all ages and interests. Most loved what he had to say as he reviewed the highlights of his findings in this book. But a small group from the university's Women's Studies department were obviously outraged at any suggestion of historical sex roles being harmful to men as well as women. They demonstrated remarkable unwillingness to hear that males die much earlier, are far more frequent victims of violence, of workplace injury, and even of suicide than are females -- let alone any other discussion casting doubt on their dearly held conviction that only women are ever victimized. As with others I've encountered from within this clique of feminist distortionists, their only interest see! ! med in desperately searching for any small area of question! in interpretation of data, then jumping on such difference of opinion as excuse to repudiate all logical discourse. On the other hand huge gaps in the data they wanted presented were not open to discussion. Encouragingly, those women's rights activists I've interviewed who adhere to the original tenets of feminism -- as a movement dedicated to healing and equality for all -- have expressed thorough admiration for the revolutionary findings contained in this outstanding work. Of this author's two most recent books, WHY MEN ARE THE WAY THEY ARE is certainly the softer, gentler approach. THE MYTH OF MALE POWER will come as more of a shock for those steeped in the cultural convention that hurt is an exclusively female experience. But both volumes are absolute MUST reads for any rational adult human being who believes our world needs to some day be made of women and men willing to understand, appreciate, come to terms with, and love one another.
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Summary: The Next Step in the Evolution of Gender
Review: Warren Farrell's highly controversial, ground-breaking book has been called "the bible of the men's movement," and deservedly so. For the past thirty years, Western culture has paid an enormous amount of attention to the many ways in which women have suffered due to the traditional female gender role. Now, in this book, Farrell looks at the other side of the coin--the many ways in which men, too, have suffered. The result is fascinating and provocative, a book which challenges many of our widely-held beliefs about women and men, gender and power (if only because said beliefs have never been carefully examined before). Falsely labeled by many feminists as part of some insidious "backlash," this book actually represents the necessary next step *forward* in the evolution of gender. Farrell's purpose is to show how gender traditionalism is now a losing proposition for *both* genders, in the hope that we can now begin moving together into a new era, ! ! an era not of women's liberation or men's liberation, but of *human* liberation. Exhaustively researched and compelling from beginning to end, The Myth of Male Power will not be easily forgotten by those who posess the courage to read it with an open mind.
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Summary: A Model of Gender Equality for the 21th Century
Review: Once in a lifetime, a book appears that can change the face of mankind forever, and on the issue of de-escalating the gender wars, The Myth of Male Power may be that book. As a former Director of the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Women, and now as an Advisor to organizations such as the American Coalition for Fathers and Children, Dr. Farrell knows both sides of the issues as well as almost any other major writer. What he offers is essentially a healing message of the need for understanding instead of confrontation between the genders. A basic idea of the book is that mankind is in the process of transformation from family structures suited to an agricultural/industrial economy, to structures suited to a post-industrial age. Most of the legitimate gains of the feminist movement have come not as a result of confrontation, but because of market forces in a changing economy where women are equally qualified for most jobs. What will be most needed in the 21th century is equality for men in the home, that women have largely achieved in the workplace. The Myth of Male Power is an exploration of changing societal and individual attitudes that will be needed for that to happen, and a must read for anyone concerned for the future of mankind. David A. Roberts, President, ACFC
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Summary: A logical, iconoclastic argument for true gender equity.
Review: Dr. Farrell's book is well-reasoned and equally well-documented with copious examples of gender inequality. This book argues that men need to re-examine their behaviors and the rationalizations behind these behaviors, to change the tide of self-destructive, dysfunctional traditional masculinity. One might be tempted to think this is a simple minded atavistic treatise that begs for a return to patriarchy, but the approach is logical, pragmatic, and iconoclastic. True gender equality means men should change in reaction to women's needs and women should change in reaction to men's needs. This is one of the best books on gender I've ever read because it does not victimize men, but rather serves as a wake-up call for men (and women) to change cultural notions of manliness, notions that make men "the disposble sex", so that all of society can benefit from true equality and enlightenment. Not the easiest read, but the ideas in this book crackle with intelligence and will challenge most every idea of gender this society espouses. My choice for the most importnat and most under-read book of the decade.
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Summary: The Truth about Men
Review: Farrells book is a facinating book that dispells many of the lies of radical feminism, with meticulous footnotes to back up his claims. This is the book that's been pulled from library shelves and banned by the Matriarchal educational and medial establishment. Finally, somebody tells our side of the story.
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