Books The Myth of Male Power (1 Viewer)

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While this book says a few interesting things, I think it's 0 out of 10 stars because some opinions he has are bad.
Introduction: "Many of these young men have much more potential raising children than money. But our attitudes have to change. Instead of our silently seeing them as losers, we can prepare them for fathering as a new sense of purpose."
1:I thought the introduction to chapter 3 and conclusion were a waste of time to read.
2: He doesn't denounce abortion: "But male technology created women’s “right to choose”—it created birth control. And it created safe abortions. The male technology of birth control did more than any other single thing to reduce women’s work load; to move women from a one-option sex to the only multi-option sex." He seems to be against prostitutition: "We must deal with denying women the vote; treating women as property and second-class citizens; objectifying them as concubines, harems, and prostitutes"
3:"Giving permission to homosexuality in Stage I involved the same problem as giving permission to masturbation: it was permission for sexual pleasure without a price." Farrell is gay and anti-natalist. Reproduction isn't a price, but a gift. The fact that Farrell is aware of this reality yet still defends homosexuality is bad. "Witches (females who wouldn’t reproduce) and homosexuals (males who wouldn’t reproduce) were both burned." "The Salem witch trials were a result of the community believing the girls without question and trying to save the girls."
4: This chapter says men work the most dangerous jobs, but I feel like it's worth it if you get to reproduce. My other thought is that unemployment is worse than a bad job. Even then I sort of doubt how dangerous men's jobs really are. It's probably uncommon like war is uncommon. He says men die a lot, but the leading cause of death is actually abortion, which he doesn't mention. And abortion is worse because it's against those who lose more life time. To be fair he does mention why unemployment is bad: " Unemployed men commit suicide at twice the rate of employed men. Among women, there is no difference in the rate of suicide based on whether or not the woman is employed." "We call women who are nurses “helping professionals”; we call men who are police officers 'cops' (or "pigs'), not “saving professionals.'"
5: "Once in prison, your son’s nubile, young body combined with his reputation for not fighting makes him a perfect candidate for homosexual rape and, therefore, AIDS. In brief, he is subject to being killed."
6: "If unemployment among men leads to suicide, is it at all comparable to rape for a woman?" I don't like that this chapter opposes child support because of men. That seems dangerous to not care about the children. I'm against child support because I don't think children need it: "Currently, pregnancy for a girl means the option of a quick abortion (no matter how the boy feels) or of suing the boy for eighteen years’ worth of child support (no matter how the boy feels)." It's also just fearmongering against marriage and parenthood, which is demonic. "Fact. Women do not experience more depression, they report more depression. New studies find that clinicians fail to recognize depression in two thirds of men versus half of women."
7: This chapter says women live longer. I feel like the solution is veganism, which the author didn't mention. "Only now we are discovering that loneliness is a strong predictor of heart disease." "More black males are in the prison system than are in the college system." "Why does breast cancer receive over 600 percent more funding than prostate cancer despite men being almost as likely to die from prostate cancer?"
8: I don't like that this book seems to have criticized heterosexuality: "Heterosexual sex meant two hours of sexual pleasure in exchange for a lifetime of responsibility. Heterosexuality was a bad deal!"This book is pro-gay("Black men, Indian men, and gay men have the toughest time among American males." ) despite coming out in 1993 years before gay marriage was legalized, which is bad. I like that this chapter said homeless men lack love: "Homeless men are not just without a home, they are without love and virtually without hope of finding love as long as they are homeless."
9: I noticed the author seems to diminish child abuse by comparing it to circumcision, which is common. It makes me think the author wants to legalize abuse of girls, which is bad: "When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision." Nobody is mentally traumatized by circumcision, yet he compares it to child abuse as if child abuse isn't traumatic. This chapter says men are just as likely to be victims of domestic violence, but I didn't know that before, so perhaps men endure it: "both sexes are about equally violent toward their love partners."
10:I didn't notice anything special in this
11: This is why this book is so terrible. He wants more prisons to be built: "Were women to receive equal charges, equal bail, and equal sentencing, there would be more women’s prisons." I think the logic for reducing men's prisons was there and he argues for the opposite.
12: This chapter points out sometimes women have supposedly killed their abusers. I don't remember much of this chapter, but the problem with it is that women have a right to defend themselves.
13: This chapter was good. "The University of Toronto finds a chemical engineering professor guilty of sexual harassment for 'prolonged' staring at a female student at the university swimming pool." "In some cultures, lipstick was a woman’s way of signaling her willingness to perform fellatio." "The company stands to lose a fortune if less competent employees are promoted by an executive in exchange for sex. It is, therefore, in the company’s self-interest to fire that executive."
14: "It is ironic that in an era in which we are increasingly holding people more responsible if they drink and drive, we are holding women less responsible if they drink and have sex." This is another reason why this book isn't good. It's so extreme that if you quote this idea irl, people may think you're a rapist. "A 13-year-old North Carolina girl accused Grover Gale II of raping her four times.28 By the time Grover spent thirty-six days in jail, he had lost his construction job, fallen into debt, couldn’t pay his rent for his family at home, and was on the verge of divorce. Then the girl, whose name still didn’t make the papers, admitted she made the whole thing up, saying she was just trying to get her 17-year-old boyfriend’s attention." "I have served 4 years in jail for the “crime” of having marital relations with my wife of 16 years and afterward accused of rape" "If the 14 percent projection is close to accurate, approximately one million males are raped each year in jails and prisons. In contrast, approximately 120,000 women are subjected to rape or attempted rape outside of prison each year." "It appears that as many males might be raped in jails and prisons each year as females who are raped outside of prison." "Many of these men become “punks”—prison lingo for a sexual slave who is rented to other prisoners by the first person who raped him in exchange for drugs or other goods; many are gang-raped; and many are raped by a convict’s fist or a broom handle being thrust into his anus until his anus is ripped apart." "Few people realize that although Cathleen Crowell Webb was so easily believed when she accused Gary Dotson, she was not believed when she said Gary Dotson was innocent." "But when the governor of New York was fooled by Tawana Brawley’s convincing claim of gang rape (which turned out to be a hoax) and the governor of Illinois refused Gary Dotson a retrial years after DNA tests virtually proved him innocent, I felt I had to open my mind."
15: "[W]e give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves." Farrell seems to be against welfare, and I'm not against welfare. Is he antinatalist? This logic isn't even saying men should receive welfare as much as women. It's just the hatred of women veiled as men's rights activism; and this will harm men because if welfare for women is abolished so will it be abolished against men. He also mentions fatherlessness, but I think the main form of fatherlessness is childlessness, and that's really bad(fatherlessness is the absence of fathers).
 

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