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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care | 
| Author: Kathleen Parker
Publisher: Random House
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 1400065798
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9781400065790
ASIN: 1400065798
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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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.
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 Sanity! August 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 so many subjects. Kathleen Parker lays down common sense with wit, tongue-in-cheek humor, and with eyes wide open. This book will be interesting to anyone interested in gender issues, family issues, men's and women's issues, and...common sense!
Fantastic strike against the Feminist Jihad - this IS the gender book of the decade!! August 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 from a young woman journalist who is no doubt going to be one of the shining stars of the post-Taliban Feminism generation. Her review can be found by searching and sums up the book fantastically (I'm in no way connected with the paper myself). Most of Kathleen's arguments can be found in other true equality books by Warren Farrell, Christine Hoff-Sommers, Thomas Ellis, etc, but she has written this valuable book most intelligently, resulting in a very readable and informative work. The Feminist Jihad against the male gender has got to stop, and Kathleen Parker's book is a vital contribution in the struggle to make sure that Taliban Feminism's debilitating stranglehold on Western Society is weakened and ultimately overthrown. Thank you Kathleen! And don't be discouraged by the calls of those Gender Ayatollahs in your country who are sure to be screaming for your blood - wisdom, truth, love and understanding always prevail in the end.
every mother should read August 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Parker 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.
A Tour De Force of Insight - BRAVO! August 1, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Although she avoids use of the term Misandry (which I define as Hatred of Men, Masculinity and Normal Heterosexuality) with the exception of referring to one Son's feminist grade school teacher as "Miss Andry", Parker provides considerable detail of the BAMN BAMN (Bash Men, By Any Means Necessary) ideology at work in our gender toxic culture.
However, she manages to avoid many of the pitfalls of other authors focusing on the trivial, and whenever it seems as if she is going to rehash previous tabloid trash (ie: the Paris-Lindsay-Brittany axis of evil) - she manages to redirect the book in to areas where her voice is all the stronger for the silence of others. For instance, her analysis of Gender and the Military is quite laudable, even for those who don't agree with all she says - if only for the fact that she talks common sense about subjects that are so taboo, it would cost the career of any serving officer to breach them.
In many respects this is the finest, and last, word from Women about Men's Issues. Not only has Parker staked out clear and defensible positions for important issues on the Gender Wars Battlefield (Fatherhood, Procreation, Equal Rights, Discrimination, Harassment...)- but done so as one who is not a combatant seeking to trash Men for fun and profit (unlike those `stiffed' by other authors) and in fact as a Mother who Loves Her Sons and sees nothing contradictory in the term "Good Men". Perhaps one day Male Authors will have the same opportunity to Frankly discuss Gender Issues and still be published - although Parkers book is being "Back-Shelved" by major retailers who keep it from public display.
In the end it is this connectedness to Men that brings the Humanity to Parker's book, and she helps remind both Men and Women that We are Not Enemies but rather Partners - even if that is considered Heresy by the Radical Gender Feminist Power structure running the victimization scam for fun and profit.
Perhaps the true power in Parker's book is that Men and Women can read it and not be angry at each other, although their perspective of Radical Gender Feminism may be irreversibly altered. That and the fact that her book is a `going forward' view - and not the standard `Death to the Patriarchy' demand for retribution that passes for feminist critique.
One `near' omission was the lack of discussion or the influence of the `non male identified' wing of radical feminism (I don't like to embarrass residents of the Greek Isle of Lesbos by referring to these deeply hateful hyper militant Misandrist types as `Lesbians' - seeing as there is a lawsuit in Greece over use of the term right now). However, under a chapter sub heading "Isms & Ologies" she does say in reference to a feminist book dealing with such types that it was a : "distant early warning that feminism was being hijacked by women who were not precisely interested in bonding with the opposite sex."
In closing I would say that it was another quote that Parker Included on the evil nature of political correctness (showing her not afraid to share wisdom from others), by Theodore Dalrymple from "Frontpage" Magazine that I found most impressive - if only because it showed her as someone not afraid to touch the central nerve at the heart of such Censorship Pogroms - and expose it for the hateful Misandrist fraud it truly is.
Dalrymple explained:
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade of convince, nor to inform, but to Humiliate; and therefore the less it corresponded to reality the better.
When people are torced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself.
One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control , I think that if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."
Whether you agree with her or not, Kathleen Parker has certainly set out her arguments in a manner that invites analysis, and only offends those Misandrists who already know the answer to all Gender Issues = BAMN BAMN.
Humorous, Poignant Book July 26, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This 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 they should be feared in many cases (no men can sit next to unaccompanied minors in Australia: are men really guilty by default? On college campuses faces of random [not guilty] students are plastered around campus as "potential rapists": are men rapists simply for being men?). These and many more stunning and depressing cases are laid out to show how prevalent and pervasive these opinions are, as well as how foolish they really are and the consequences of such mysandry.
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