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Summary: Sex-ploytation by Matthew Fitzgerald (1999)
Review: Unfortunately, this book is brutally honest in most angles. While not all young, American women are like this, this author dares to expose how women use their sexualities to get away with amany crimes and it goes deeper in depth than the typical "strip club" notion of how strippers take money from men. This book deals with hard-to-deal-with facts about the ignorance of the radical feminist movement and the death of the Sexual Revolution in the mid-'70s that has caused young American women to evolve an ugly contempt for American men. From girls who die from anorexia due to wanting to become the next model or wanting to resemble what/how magazines, tvs and modeling agencies think women ought to look, bar-stars who scam drinks from a number of men and only go home with one or none to female serial killers/murderers/scam artists who have got off the hook only because of their gender and PAST inequalities.It's bad enough that much of love, sex and companionship in the USA is no longer for free as it was during the Sexual Revolution (in the 60s and early 70s before the disco era). Now, we have stupid TV shows like "Joe Millionaire"; a television show that shows how women only want Mr. Joe Millionaire because of what's in his pocket and his bank account. Not his heart, his briefs nor his mind and nevermind about the fact that the guy looks like the Jolly Green Giant. Although American isn't a Communist country, we have the media, statistics and conservatives who "train" us what to believe. There are amany of magazines out here for women and young girls. But what do young boys have to read? High school boys read Maxim, although the editors claim their magazine isn't for younger boys because of alcohol ads and passages that explain "how to make margaritas" and that kind of thing. In grocery stores and department stores, there are wedding magazines only for the bride. None for the groom. It's obvious without looking afar that we live in an unfair, sexist society already. Then, there are amany of women who would rather spend weekends at home than to be seen with a guy who makes under $50,000 per year and picky chicks who wouldn't like to be seen with bartenders, truck drivers, etc... Also, there are many Swingers clubs/organizations who are very selective in letting single men into their groups or clubs. Many prefer couples and bisexual women. Men do dangerous jobs like industrial service, construction and working at warehouses lifting hundred-pound boxes catching hernias every year. Women don't do jobs like that and many know it, but refuse to say anything for the fear of being lables as "sexist". The hardest job a woman can do is work at a plant, join the services or give birth in which, none of us have asked to be here. But then you have some women who believe that just because they've "suffered" more than everyone else means they're entitled to free reign and that the world should stop for them?! Then, there's the reverse treatment and false accusations of sexual harrassment/abuse. Talk about chauvanistic? At one point in the book, the author says that "rape is entirely a woman's fault". What? A comment like that is truly said out of anger. Rape is no one's fault and neither is death. If smoke-and-mirrors are used and it comes back to haunt a woman, that's different. If a woman falsely claims sexual harrassment and fires her weapons at noises in the dark and it comes back to bite her in the butt, yes, that is her fault. But rape? That is the most ridiculous part of this book. The best parts of this book are when the author speaks of biased statistics, "A Woman's Scam", the Sexual Revolution, pornography, marriage, the media, "Whore-ror stories", "Why chicks dig jerks" (which I think is funny beyond belief) and how some women "develop whorish personalities starting at ages 5 & 6". This book had me in deep thought, it had me in high laughter and it also pissed me off. It also tells women and men what they can do to end the madness. Personally, I hear mainly older women (women over 25-30) and foreign women complain that they "don't understand young girls" and many foreign women complain that "I don't understand American women. They're so stupid. It's all about them!" Even to "they complain that a good man is hard to find, but they treat their men like sh*t and they have the audacity to complain about men cheating and becoming anti-monogamy." Many women don't expect men to sleep around and I believe a man who's in a monogamous relationship shouldn't cheat. However, few women do expect men to sleep around and women like that know that men who do sleep around have more character and more direction than the typical, average Joe. It's not because men are "pigs" or greedy. Many men who do sleep around do it because it's their personal celebration to the female species and their love for them. But men and women see sex differently and women, unlike men, don't want to lay every "hot stud" she comes across (though, there are only few women like that). I've had an old friend back in high school and we've met before I've arrived high school. Before I went to that hellhole, he made sure he told me that "Hey man, talk to older women. Young women are full of sh*t" and he was right. He was nice to many females, but he never took any crap from them and he came close to getting physical with three of them that i've known when they would give him a hard time. Out of 12 younger females I've messed around with in high school, 1/3rd of them actually liked me and rarely had time for games. Now, as I write this review, I am 21 years of age and I must say that over the years, I've gotten harder and more thickened by my skin. I have preferences just like anyone else and I like mostly older women (20-21 and over). I knew my friend was right in saying this, but down the line, I have forgotten occasionally. Learning things the hard way can really stick with you. When I was in high school, I've had young chicks run games on me, lie on me and sometimes, people have tried to deprive me of enjoying the vision of a female's body. I, myself, see nothing wrong with pornography. However, I'm not the kind of person who watches pornography every week and spend hundreds of dollars every month on pornography. It exists for a number of reasons and even though American pornography is nowhere as extreme as European pornography, the breeding ground for pornography was art that celebrated the female body. Pornography shows women having sex because they love it and the book explains why the radical feminist despises these things. Over the years, pornography has increased in prices as well. Another form of freedom that people have been trying to deprive people from (as well as education. The higher the education, the higher the cost). Then again, pornography can kill sexuality. America has the highest rape & domestic violence rates than most foreign countries where sex is open (Europe, South America, Australia, etc...). Why? Because of conservatives, high-moral grounders and restrictions of what people learn and witness. Another reason why the US is the laughing stock of the world now. When you watch French movies like "Irreversible" (with the incredible Monica Bellucci) that make rape look artistic, you never know if the director Gaspar Noe is doing it for glamourization, for shock value or to show realism. Rape rates are very low in France (and other foreign countries) than it is here in the States. Just goes to show that many people aren't ready for individualism, different formats of freedom and new ideas. What ever happened to the real women who like sex just to have it, to explore themselves, to enjoy life instead of using their sexuality to make money? Even if you take a look at entertainers like Jenna Jameson, Britney Spears, etc... They use their sexuality only to make money and to gain limelight and it had decline our youth's ability to see past face value. And certain women have the audacity to get upset at men even for looking at their curves? The book does even explain at one point that "Pornography shows women having sex because they love sex. Because they love men. Not because a man had bought them dinner. ...and feminists hate this." Loreena Bobbit was a woman who caught her husband cheating on her and she was going to leave him anyway. However, she wanted to be a b*tch and cut her husband's penis off. In return? She's let off the hook because many courts are female friendly. In late 1994, when OJ Simpson was caught for murdering Nicole Brown Simpson, a woman named Susan Smith had killed her two children and made up a folktale about an African-American male killing her children and everyone buys it. Especially the feminists, racists and the police who went on witch-hunts searching for someone who never existed. And if not for modern technology, that would be another male in jail for something he had never done to begin with. As far as OJ Simpson? He was let off the hook for murdering Nicole Brown Simpson, not because of his gender or even race. It was because he's rich, famous and he had a great lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, on his side, who had also helped other famous criminals break free. By the way, not everyone who's rich and famous gets off the hook for murder, rape, domestic violence, fraud, etc... (Mika Tyson, "Mystikal", Tupac, Martha Stewart is looking at jailtime, etc...) In no way do I condone domestic violence toward anyone. Violence, period, I despise. I have known women who were old enough to be my mother who have been in relationships with pathetic men who would cheat on them constantly, with compulsive, sick and ignorant character. These women who've had children would allow their children to endure verbal, physical, psychological and emotional abuse from these men. I would ask some of these women "Why are you doing this to yourself and your children?" and these women would say "See that couch he bought me?" "See his checkstub?" "I'd rather have an a**hole who can pay my bills than to have a nice guy who can't provide for me and my children" or "any man who wants to be with me has to do for me and my children". I've known women in vulnerable relationships, whom have no self-worth and who aren't teaching their children to have any self-worth. Why? All for the money! The breeding ground for all of this? Male Patriarchy, radical feminism, conservatives, mindless consumerism and even corporal punishment. Thanks to these things, many young women in America will eventually bring heartache, pain, rejection and setback on themselves and their children, unless they wise up! I'm only being honest amid my review. I still love you, ladies!
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Summary: Sorta kinda funny...
Review: From... "(A reader from Houston, Tx)... and nearly all women in the US agree that using their bodies for otherwise unwarranted gain is unethical" Now, I know I don't have that fancy shmancy Texas higher education degree... but I remember (from a 90210 episode of course), this term: Debutante. Oh yeah, can you feel the love in Texas? Oops, there's that stereotype thingy again... you know those ideas that are applied in a generalized manner to a certain demographic? Sorry about that... my bad. Ignorantly I forgot that statements like "Most women enjoy a sexually dominant man at least every once in a while", or "Those who do use their bodies for gain only dupe the most imperceptive of men or men who wish to be duped" are just from those haters who can't handle us sensitive guys (without trust funds that is), or haters needing to justify their submission if the perp happens to look like a movie star. Hate those stereo things, speshalee since my 8-track is mono. I am now truly enlightened.
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Summary: Capt. Strawman
Review: This guy... has never ever dated but the most moronic women in his life. I have never encountered any woman like the stereotype he describes save on television. The problem is that when anyone makes assumptive stereotype about a group of people like Matt here, one can always manage to reason that stereotype onto actual people. (Much in the same way the racists of the 19th century invented all sorts of 'sciences' to prove the supposed inferiority of people of color) This is dangerous, since his stereotype is rarely, if ever, true. Most women enjoy a sexually dominant man at least every once in a while, and nearly all women in the US agree that using their bodies for otherwise unwarranted gain is unethical. Those who do use their bodies for gain only dupe the most imperceptive of men or men who wish to be duped. This isn't a crisis in our society at all. It would be if what Matt said was true, but thankfully it is not. I believe his main problem is that feminism has caused women to gain equal respect to men in our society. I imagine him as a rather portly fellow wearing a backwards baseball cap despite the fact that he's middle aged. He obviously very inwardly focused. Otherwise he'd write a book about how women make 70 cents on the dollar or provide some insights about a truly victimized group of people... you know... who aren't men who still hold almost every single position of power in this country.
-Regards
A Person who actually went to university *ahem* Matt. PS.. let's not get started on how Mr. Fitzgerald writes like a 14 year old boy.
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Summary: I'm a woman and he's right!
Review: I'm a woman from California, I read this book and I agree with the author 100%. I'm guilty of all the things he says (using men for money, etc.), and so is every other woman I know. At least I admit it and many other girls I know don't, just as he says. He's right, if we want equality, then we should pay our own way. I think it's funny that some other people reviewing (women probably) think the author hates women! I know he's just telling the truth. Why not admit it, girls?
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Summary: A Vibrant Pro-Feminist And Somehow Misogynistic Pamphlet
Review: The author proposes to expand on, or make an apology of, a work (published in the mid-seventies) by Esther Vilar (an Argentinian born physician and psychologist) entitled "The Manipulated Man," depicting men as Pavlov-dog sexually-conditioned individuals, shackled into a lifetime of subservience and slavery for the fulfillment of female desires. To Esther Vilar, the typical American housewife was nothing more than a parasitic prostitute, living off the bounty of her husband's hard labour, goading him to make more money in order to enjoy the finer things in life without any expenditure of effort on her part (something like the biological vindication of a well-known universal thermodynamic principle). In Esther Vilar own's words "Women live an animal existence. They like eating, drinking, sleeping - even sex, providing there is nothing to do and no real effort is required from them." This has the sad but trivial accumen of a rabbinic statement... The book nevertheless abounds with somehow humouristic statements and depictions, and even a few blatant contradictions. On page 75, the author relates a story: "On a damp night in London in 1848, the art critic John Ruskin saw his new bride naked for the first time. He was horrified. For years he had studied classical statues of the female figure in the British Museum, but these had been chiseled out of bald marble, and represented a censored depiction of reality. The sight of his wife's vagina pelted with pubic hair disgusted him. He did not consumate the marriage that night, but instead became an obsessive masturbator for the rest of his life." Here we seem to have a very clear and illustrative example of "failed Sex-Ploytation," a waste of sexual ressources due to a sham and illusory vision of sexuality... The end of the book contains a short lexicon that seeks to reinterpret a few commonplace statements in a more realistic light: "You're a gentleman" ---> "He's a truly brainwashed sucker who will pay for everything and won't ask for sex." "I love you" ---> "You're an excellent workhorse." "You're sexually harrassing me" ---> "I want to be able to freely use my sexuality to get ahead in life, but I don't want to be accountable for my actions." "I'm being discriminated against" ---> "I don't have talent, skills, or training to get a better position, but I want to be promoted anyway, and be paid -as much as a man-." Actually, if one gloses through the pages of this book, one gets the inevitable impression that the author seems to somehow be an advocate of sexual liberation and of true feminism, but seems to find that women seldom play by the rules they try to impose on their male-counterparts, and is of the opinion that males are traditionally getting more and more blatantly ripped-off in the age-old sex-for-money-and-shelter trade-off... Well, if all of Women were all good, decent, true, honest and worthy individuals, we'd be living in Utopia, a sort of asexual garden of Eden where there would be no (reptilian)(sexual)(evolutionary) surge whatsoever, and hence no need for evolutionary theories as the only scientific caution and justification for all the evil that seems to happen in this world... As to the comparison of marriage with a socially-acceptable form of prostitution, it is, in my view, nothing but an innocent play of words... The fact that, statistically speaking, Women in general are a rather bad option for Man is nothing but a strong advocacy for either Monogamy or Celibacy... the things that all major religions and philosophies have ever been proclaiming since the beginning of the ages... If people get burned on these age-old truths and on biological facts, it is merely a sign that people are loosing their heads in our modern age of sexual liberation, and the thereby ensuing feministic battle of the sexes... I nevertheless totally agree with the author that Women are generally speaking less dependable, less truthfull, less decent, less honest, less sincere, less candid, less generous, less outspoken and less open than Men are... Most often there is something within their eyes that looks like there is some kind of a cold-blooded evaluating-averaging-calculating computer that is constantly at work, weighing the pro-and-cons and eventual benefits from a (temporary) partnership, like "what's in there for me", or "is that a person with whom I could eventually cut a good financial-social deal out"? Women seldom appear to have a mind of their own, but they rather seem to have some sort of cold-blooded reptilian biological computing-machine that is in charge of their body ("booty", or beauty, if you wish), opportunistically waiting for the right predatory snatch-time... Nevertheless (one may almost say fortunately enough) Men are generally more brutal, more egoistical, more self-centered, stronger and more dominating, so as not to give in too easily in these kind of shaky deals and/or trade-offs... Sexual manipulation than remains as the only ultimate evolutionary weapon that women can or have to use in order to finally get a foot in the door of a disadvantaged natural condition... Here again, everything seems to be a pure game for power and ascendancy... That the Woman as such is a rather bad thing for Man has been known since the beginning of ages... Actually, the term Woman does ethymologically come from Woe (of) Man, hence Woman... This should not be understood as an advocacy for homosexuality, but rather as an hint for the greatest of all carefullness in matters relating to Man-Woman partnership... It is only in our silly once modern age of sexual-emancipation turned into every-day-porn, followed by unfettered feminism, that these ancient truths seem to have somehow altogether evaporated and been forgotten... If you ever happened to forget these age-old truths, well, welcome back to the 21st century for a little (biological)(evolutionary)(reptilian) reality show...
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Summary: Makes some mistaken assumptions
Review: I found this book at a yard sale and was intrigued enough to pay the $.25 the seller was asking. The thesis of Mr. Fitzgerald's book seems to that all women use sex to get money and that in a dating is really more of a prostitute/john situation than a romantic encounter. While I agree that some women do "date professionally", trading their looks for money, Mr. Fitzgerald fails to credit the vast majority of women who just want to find a partner and who are neither cruel, manipulative, or after his wallet. His general bitterness towards women shines through in every paragraph. Apparently he has been ill used in the past. Shame on her, but shame on him for trying to hasten the end of romance, chivalry, and good manners. Mr. Fitzgerald suggests things like demanding your date pay for half of the meal because she now earns equal pay, not holding doors, etc. His advice puts you on the fast to not getting called back. Here's some real advice: Cherish your date. Assume innocence. Odds are she's not trying to screw you over, she's trying to get to know you. If you invite, you pay. Simple as that, regardless of if you're male or female. If she does turn out to be greedy, manipulative, and only after you for money, let her go. Not everyone is like that. I feel sorry for Mr. Fitzgerald. It's obvious he's only had bad experiences. Don't drag yourself down to his level of self pity by buying this book.
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Summary: Pure brilliance!
Review: Genius! Like many of the other readers, I was skeptical at first of this book. I asked myself, "What does this Matthew fellow know about my gender?" Then, when I read the book a first time, and reread it a second time, it occured to me that I'm a prostitute! I'm a money-grubbing, bottom-feeding slut that only wants to suck a man's wallet dry using my beautiful, voluptuous body! Thanks, Matthew, you're my savoir!
- Sarah,
your #1 skank
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Summary: It reinforced my facts and theories.
Review: "Every (person) is considered equal, except some are more equal than others". Yes. I'm paraphrasing from Animal Farm. But, if the truth hurts woman--that they don't need men emotionally, and merely use sex for men, power, and money--then take a pill, sweetheart, because it's true. As I said, this book reinforces my theory that woman, more often than not, are users of men--and not for the man himself. I would expect that the female, and her irrational mind, would take offense to my statements. But facts cannot and should not be seen as offensive. If you, honey, want equality, then I'm all for it--as I've always been. But chivalry cannot be destroyed, as you have done, and expect a door held open or any other means of help in any manner. Only fools will fall for your games, duplicity, and deception. I've been there, and it's ugly. I'm not bitter, I'm just waiting for a gal with a rational mind and a heart! The pendulum will swing back to where it should be. And, if woman made Clinton president with their "arousal factor", then, it's time we rethought allowing any woman to vote! It's a great book!!
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Summary: misfits
Review: Get a life!!! Before sharing your thoughts on such an important topic, be receptive to others' experiences You sound biased & overly judgmental As a female, I could sing similar tunes of many men whom I have met!!! We are all on a path & should be consciously sensitive to each others' journeys
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Summary: What a bunch of whiners!!!
Review: blah blah blah
give me a break!
now go home crying to your mama!!
idiots!
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