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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathleen Parker
Publisher: Random House
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 1.4 x 0.2
ISBN: 1400065798
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9781400065790
ASIN: 1400065798
Publication Date: June 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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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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 You Shall Not Criticize Feminism! July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This well researched and thought-out book puts the, "We don't like men and we don't need men" rhetoric of the feminist educators and mass media into a present day context. It's the latest snap shot of our society post modern feminism, and things are worse than ever.
Men won't or can't ever be victims of a social movement they supposedly perpetuated. What they want is simply to STOP BEING BLAMED and stop being forced to PRETEND women are the same as men just for the sake of keeping the hoochie door open at home. Instead we're told everywhere men and women are equal in all regards except women are given special privilages because they can give life, (or legally take it depending on the situation at that time).
It's very sad to me that this book will never come close to making the NY TIMES best seller list or here at Amazon. The author/publisher had to know that "You Shall Non Criticize Feminism" is commandment #1 in the Feminist Manifesto, but yet she bravely proceeded onward to write a terrific and worthwhile observation of the gender wars today. I can only hope that someday it becomes a classic as more confused men and thoughtful women seek answers to the question, "Why do we hate each other so much?". This book contains many of those answers.
Kathleen Parker is a great woman who has given us a huge transfusion of truth July 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I read this book in two sittings. I could not put it down. Kathleen Parker comes out into the open and talks plainly regarding a phenomenon about which a great many American women are in denial: that over the past 40 years feminism and its evil twin political correctness have tweaked our culture in a decidedly anti-male direction. Lots of laughs for women who hate men, maybe, and as Kathleen herself told me, "a huge bonding agent for women."
Swell. But I have a message for all those "Jerry Maguire" American women out there who meet to congratulate each other on being women and to vilify men: we American men are beyond sick of it, and getting mad enough to fight back. You want that? Because here's the form that the "fighting back" will take: we'll go elsewhere to meet women. If despising us is how you puff yourselves up, who needs you?
That's a little blunt, but it needs saying. I'm an American man, and in a perfect world I would dearly love to value and honor the women of my own country. But I can't. Not now, anyway. Kathleen is absolutely correct: American women have made such a fetish of themselves, and of blaming men for all of their problems including those they bring upon themselves,that in recent years I have wondered why on earth American men should want to have anything to do with them. I'm married, so I don't have to worry about such things, (and yes, I am married to an American woman.) But I don't blame my fellow American men for going on the Internet and seeking female companions in Europe, South America or the Phillipines. I once adopted a cat who turned out to be so violently hostile to me that I returned it to its original owners. I wanted a companion, not a live-in enemy.
Kathleen is on-point and on-target when she makes it clear that American men want companions, not live-in enemies. And we're tired of being depicted on TV and in the movies as clueless dolts, incompetent bumblers, witless brutes and green-fanged rapists. It's no longer cute or funny, not that it ever was. Don't treat us with contempt and then expect us to call you for dates. And don't accuse us of seeking "submissive dewdrops" if we go seeking women who won't try to emasculate us in order to make themselves feel "liberated."
Kathleen told me that young women in America are her greatest hope. Because she sees among them, from what they say to her when she speaks on college campuses, a realization that our society has indeed become anti-male, and on the whole they're not comfortable with it. The "sisterhood" of the '60s and '70s, that baby-boomer generation of screechy feminists who took over the national conversation about gender relations about 40 years ago, is getting old. So is its radical message. Most of the original goals of 1960s feminism have long since been achieved. But the graying "sisterhood" has perpetuated male-bashing as a way of continuing to justify its existence (not to mention its government subsidies.) It's my hope that the upcoming generation of young women who weren't around when Robin Morgan and her ilk began spewing hate-men rhetoric, will manage to get things in this country back on an even keel. If I can't see that, I'd like to see a mass-migration of American men to Argentina or Madagascar or some other place where they aren't vilified and ridiculed everywhere they turn. I'll coordinate the effort if no other guy wants to. Let me know, guys. Let's leave these man-hating women to each other if needs be. Maybe that will send them a message.
Men and women need each other. And children need both parents. That's an idea that predates by perhaps 100,000 years the attempts by "the sisterhood" to create a unisex society, with the predictable by-product of skewing popular culture in such a way that women's self-obsessed whining becomes sacrosact, and men are always and everywhere The Villain. Equality is well and good; interchangeability is a radical feminist fantasy. Men and women are different. Period. Equal but different. Kathleen Parker's book should be dropped from airplanes by the thousands of copies all over this unwell land in which having a penis instead of a vagina is too often considered a social faux-pas that needs to be corrected.
In short, Kathleen is trying to re-introduce sanity to a society that has embraced this particular form of insanity and made it chic. I don't hold out a lot of hope, but I wish her all luck.
Excellent analyses and a great read July 2, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excellent, very well-researched, informative, very readable must-read. Parker is to be commended for clearly demonstrating the fallacies of the politically correct ways in which male and female roles have been steered in recent decades. She brings much-needed sanity to this discussion, and she does it with a delightful wit that comes through on every page.
She is particularly effective in assessing the harmful way that the US Military has dealt with women. She points out exactly how the current use of women endangers both male and female soldiers and unit morale. (My discussions with my son, who served 27 months in Iraq, strongly support her conclusions.)
Save the Males also offers most valuable analyses of the current American family structure and of teen and young adult sexual activity. Her conclusions are searingly accurate, and are based not on dogma, but on the realities of what is good for society and what most definitely is not.
This is not, however, a negative book. Parker sees the honor, worth, and desirability of both the male and female as they truly are and should be. Despite the setbacks that males and females have suffered due to attempts at social engineering, Parker concludes with a well-charted course that we can follow.
Bravo to her for creating this excellent work.
John L. "Jay" Holcomb, Greenfield Center, NY
Former US Air Force Officer
Smart, funny page turner that you will want all mothers to read July 2, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Laughing at times and always enjoying Kathleen Parker's writing, I read this book in one sitting. She captures how this culture has humiliated and diminished men and masculinity. The result? Fathers who are marginalized and boys who are left to pornography and violent video games. Lovely. The real loosers are women and children. Feminism went too far and we need to dial back. One start is to get this book in the hands of young women and mothers with boys. And we can just celebrate and appreciate the men in our life. Viva la difference!
Save Everyone! June 30, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RYIZ6GY1N955R This is an outstanding book and I hope you enjoy this video review.
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