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Oct. 15, 2009 By Richard Doyle
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Reviewer: Tom James, Esq. Minnesota
The book provides a wealth of insights into gender relations, all presented in plain-spoken language. Mr. Doyle describes himself as “a social critic with the indelicacy to be candid, without punches pulled or regard for toes stepped on....” In so stating, he is being too modest. There are places in the book where it might be said that he steps on the entire foot, not merely the toes. Yet, everything in his book is backed up with well-documented research and facts that are impossible to deny. So many, in fact, that a person who has had no real education outside of classrooms and television, would no doubt feel overwhelmed... More > by the sheer volume of information it contains, all directly contradicting the propaganda that that has been regularly dispensed by the media and public schools for the past thirty years.
Describing the feminist men’s movement’s call for men to get in touch with their feminine side “hogwash,” he aptly observes that “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.” Family court judges he describes as “marriage butchers” who “deliver their sentences of death to families, with less time and attention than they devote to contemplating their lunch menu.” One of the keenest observations [originating from Professor Amneus) in the book, though, is the following:
“If judges did to women what they routinely do to men—if they deprived them of their children, their homes, their property, their role, and compelled them to work and share their income with their ex-husbands, those judges would be torn to pieces by mobs of frenzied women.”
This dovetails nicely with another of his observations, that feminists demand both equality and inequality, depending on which of those happens to benefit women the most in a given context. Thus, for example, feminists demand equal treatment in the context of employment, but insist that they be treated as superiors to men in the context of child custody proceedings. Similarly, to allow a men-only club to exist is decried as sexist, while women-only clubs are called “empowering.” In short, “Spokeswomen profess to seek equality but demand special privilege.”
Doyle advocates for a fresh approach to gender norms, one based on recognition that “To establish norms based upon exceptions and to refuse to consider exceptions both defy common sense.” That is to say, he urges the use of intelligence in the analysis and resolution of gender issues. That is probably too radical a notion to be very widely accepted just now, but it is an idea whose time inevitably will come. < Less

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ISBN 978-1-4116-9633-4
Copyright Richard Doyle (Standard Copyright License)
Edition Tenth Edition
Publisher Poor Richard's Press
Published November 22, 2011
Language English
Pages 315
 
Binding Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink Black & white
Dimensions (inches) 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall

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