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Holistic Guidance - Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
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Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9781400065790
ISBN: 1400065798
Label: Random House
Manufacturer: Random House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2008-06-10
Publisher: Random House
Release Date: 2008-06-10
Studio: Random House
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Tell a woman we need to save the males and she’ll give you the name of her shrink. But cultural provocateur Kathleen Parker, who was raised by her father and who mothered a pack of boys, makes a humorous case for rescuing the allegedly stronger sex from trends that portend man’s cultural demise.
Save the Males is a shrewd, amusing, and sure-to-be-controversial look at how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. Kathleen Parker argues that the feminist movement veered off course from it’s original aim of helping women achieve equality and ended up making enemies of men. With piercing wit, this nationally syndicated columnist shows us how the pendulum has swung from the reasonable middle to a place where men have been ridiculed in the public square and the importance of fatherhood has been diminished–all to the detriment of women, who ultimately suffer most.
The real losers, should we continue on our present course, are not just grown men and women but our children. Young people involuntarily drafted into the squabbles of their parents’ generation and raised in a climate of sexual hostility–also known as the “hookup culture”–may be fluent in porn, but their vocabulary is painfully limited when it comes to relationships.
While Parker gleefully skewers the silly side of the human experiment–like men in dresses and sperm shopping–she offers sobering statistics on the impact of the anti-male culture on the institution of the family and on relationships.
Exploring our burgeoning “slut culture” and the vividly narcissistic prevalence of vagina worship, Save the Males softens no edges. Parker tackles some of the more taboo subjects in today’s sexual politics and culture wars with perceptive analysis and a stinging sense of humor that will have America talking–and chuckling–about saving the males.
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Summary: Everyone should read this book
Comment: Of the dozens of books I will read this year, Kathleen Parker's Save the Males is the one I will remember. It's both that good and that important. You should read this book if you are a man, know a man -- or, I suspose, thinking of becoming one. You should read this book if you are a mother with sons or a female elementary school teacher or elementary school administrator. You should read this book if you have not aware of what is happening to men in this country -- for the same reason that a white Southerner in the 1960s needed to read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. This book will awaken your sensibilities. Too often a book with such an emotional argument can turn into a polemic. But Parker does not allow this happen. She's a wonderful writer with a sharp sense of humor, which she uses to cut through our denial and not bludgeon those who think differently. Her wit makes the book enjoyable, her research gives the book its gravitas, and her writing makes the book too important to ignore. Everyone should buy and read this book.
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Summary: nothing new
Comment: Nothing wrong with the premise -- but too "cutesy" and "aren't I brilliant" to be designated true scholarship. Lots of repetition of the same ideas phrased differently. This has become a trend. Ideas befitting an article are now expanded to make a book. The reader would get more out of a good Jane Austen novel.
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Summary: A little entertaining, but a lot unconvincing
Comment: Parker has a lot of ideas about how men are, um, penalized for their manhood, and she presents them with what is most politely described as verve. But her argument suffers from two major flaws. The first, her lack of data and of credible citation, has been covered in mainstream reviews. The second is still more fundamental: if manhood/masculinity is innate, how can it be taken away or diminished? And if it's not innate, then what's wrong with reconstructing masculinity (and femininity) to reflect the changing needs of our culture?
In sum, this is not a book to change anyone's mind. Those who already agree will find it reinforcing, while those unconvinced will shake their heads at its overstatements.
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Summary: CAMP FOLLOWERS
Comment: SAVE THE MALES is a long monologue cobbled together from a Google search about men, or so it seems. It's cute, then tedious, then boring.
Most of what Parker reports, I've observed and thought about. I have 5 sisters and know how the game is played.
Men will do okay in the Battle of the Sexes because of two factors: Men are prone to violence, and violence is the bottomline for all human intercourse. Two, Mother Nature loves men, and equipts us with a 6th sense about women. When the girls walk in the front door, the guys leave by the back door. So education and banking and social services and law et al become pink-collar ghettos with token girly-men. The same is happening to the police and military. Women are doomed to be camp-followers, tagging along after the warriors.
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Summary: Save the Males
Comment: This book is "right on" with the impact radical feminism has had on our culture and is told with humor.
I think it is especially enlightening regarding young women. Parents would really benefit from reading this book. It is a quick and easy read.
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