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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 306.8742 EAN: 9781400065790 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1400065798 Label: Random House Manufacturer: Random House Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: June 10, 2008 Publisher: Random House Release Date: June 10, 2008 Studio: Random House Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Sanity!Kathleen Parker brings a sane view to everything she writes about, which includes not only this book but her newspaper columns as well. She is alway careful to state the good points about opposing views in balance to the eventual points she makes. She always builds the reasoning for the points she makes with thoughtfulness. And she always makes sense! That's the thing that Parker seems to be able to illustrate so well: that common sense is just missing these days in so many areas of debate and on ... Read More Rating: - Fantastic strike against the Feminist Jihad - this IS the gender book of the decade!!At last! Some brave individual has finally summed up all the main arguments against the movement which has evolved into what can only be called Taliban Feminism, and released a book which may come more into the mainstream than previous books promoting true equality, if only the Feminist Mujahadeen in the publishing and media world allow it to. I found out about this godsend of a book on the website of the the British newspaper Daily Mail, widely read in England, where it received a glowing review ... Read More Rating: - every mother should readParker makes the case that cultural forces have combined to "form an anti-male mosaic that says to men and boys: We don't like you. We don't need you." Her point is well taken. Can any society last long when the sex best fitted to defend, protect, and provide is held up for constant public ridicule? Parker challenges us to grow up and start treating males like people-for the sake of our children. Rating: - A Tour De Force of Insight - BRAVO!SAVE THE MALES why men matter - why women should care A review of the new book by Kathleen Parker (Random House 2008) Kathleen Parker has delivered a tour de force of insight about the current and prospective state of Gender Relations in modern America. That she has done so with genuine respect for both Men and Facts, and in a manner that many Men will find both intellectually refreshing and stimulating, makes her work all the more important a building block. ... Read More Rating: - Humorous, Poignant BookThis was a very well-written, reasoned book about why men are important. Most importantly, without men, there are no women, and vice versa. Being opposite and different is what makes us important and worthwhile. This book helps lay out the case that our pornographic and male-phobic society has helped encourage men to believe that they are not useful in our society. The policies of our government and how we treat men in our advertisements, schools, and homes tells them they are not worthwhile and that ... Read More |
