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 enlarge | Author: Kate O'beirne
Publisher: Sentinel Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  378 reviews
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1595230297
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9781595230294
ASIN: 1595230297
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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 scary October 9, 2007
13 out of 24 found this review helpful
When you realize the agenda behind the radical feminist movement and how much control they have in everything law, government,and politics, it is very scary and certainly does not represent women at all, but a very angry group of women who hate men and have a incredible hunger for power.They just are never satified and they have come a very long way so they should stop
all their whinning,it just gets so tiring to hear all the time. I for one consider myself a feminist, but certainly not aligned with this group that claims to represent women thank God!They have done more really to hurt true women then to help them.This book by the way is excellent.
Fantastic! October 7, 2007
12 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book is very well written. Whether one agrees with the author or not, one has to appreciate the presentation of her arguments and the quotes and facts she uses to back them up.
So far I've laughed at all the other crazy reviews, they seem to only further back the author and her thesis!
I am a woman, and I am sick of these feminist July 16, 2007
17 out of 30 found this review helpful
I am a woman, and I do not beleive I am inferior to man. However, there is physical differences. I would prefer the man and woman fire fighters be separated. Let the feminist have their own ladder company that serve their own neighborhood. I want to see how the rest of the world react to that. I would move out of the female firefighter serve neighborhood so fast that it will leave skid marks on the road. Let the male and female army serve separated, and see which one perform better. If females can and will perform at the same level as the man, by all mean, serve as they please. However, if the standards has to be lower to accommodate anyone, I would prefer to have the top guys to protect me instead of the mediocra feminist that relied heavily on the man. It is a really sad thing to be equal regardless of the ability of different gender.
Best Book of 2006! July 14, 2007
19 out of 30 found this review helpful
Disregard the paranoid propaganda commentary above, "back to I Love Lucy". Radical feminists don't want you to think for yourselves. They want to teach your college students "The Vagina Monologues" and turn males in girls.
The best parts of this book concerns Title IX, why more females attend college than males. The book exposes Justice Ginsberg as a baby-hating radical from the ACLU. This is a book you're not supposed to read (a nod to the PIG books).
Readers of this should know about the online army of feminists who strategically trashed O'Beirne's book: "First of all I want to thank everyone who aided in the sacking of Kate O'Beirne's book Women Who Make the World Worse over at Amazon..."
You can locate that in a Google search for 'women who make world worse', it'll be the 8th hit on the Search Result page.
 Makes a Few Good Points, But They are Widely Scattered May 31, 2007
21 out of 30 found this review helpful
I was sorry to discover, upon reading this book, that my wife and I went about raising our daughter incorrectly. Had we known, I am sure we would have done things differently. After all, she is only first in her class in high school, athletic, well liked, respected and being courted by top colleges while still in her sophomore year. I suppose, if we followed this authors advice, she would have been a better person, although I fail to see how.
The author believes, strongly, that women should stay home from work to raise children, no matter what the cost. Since I was the one to stay home, as my wife earned about 40% more than I at the time, we were putting our daughter at risk. In addition, we put her at risk by putting her into a limited day care, even though my daughter enjoyed it and wanted to continue when we attempted to pull her out. The author makes it clear that we should have moved from our house to an apartment, and given up our standard of living to allow my wife to stay home and me to continue work. That would have been what was best for our daughter. There is not alternate method allowed in her world.
Then there is the issue of sexual discrimination, which does not occur according to this author. It can't occur, other than on a limited basis, because market forces would keep it from occurring. Companies need women, and if discrimination were happening, women would quit, which would leave companies understaffed. If that were the case, I guess when my wife was told, during a performance review, that all women belonged at home taking care of the children and not working in corporate America, she was hearing things. In the author's world, that didn't occur, and neither did the large settlement from the company after the manager's treatment of women employees was exposed.
I could go on, but I think you get the point. There is an old saying about lies, damned lies and statistics, and it fits this book well. Much of it is the author's own view, with little to substantiate the opinion. The author misses the point, for the most part, that all people are not the same and that one size does not fit all. It is fine that she wishes to lead her life in the fashion that she does, but she makes no allowance for others to lead theirs in a different manner. If they do, they will fail themselves, their children, etc.
The author does, on occasion, make valid points, but they are too few and too far apart to make the book a worthwhile read, unless you want to lead a life trapped in the 1950s. While I agree that the feminist movement has gone over the edge, they have also done a lot to move the country forward and there is no credit given for that work.
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