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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathleen Parker
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 41478
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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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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 nothing new September 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nothing wrong with the premise -- but too "cutesy" and "aren't I brilliant" to be designated true scholarship. Lots of repetition of the same ideas phrased differently. This has become a trend. Ideas befitting an article are now expanded to make a book. The reader would get more out of a good Jane Austen novel.
 A little entertaining, but a lot unconvincing September 26, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Parker has a lot of ideas about how men are, um, penalized for their manhood, and she presents them with what is most politely described as verve. But her argument suffers from two major flaws. The first, her lack of data and of credible citation, has been covered in mainstream reviews. The second is still more fundamental: if manhood/masculinity is innate, how can it be taken away or diminished? And if it's not innate, then what's wrong with reconstructing masculinity (and femininity) to reflect the changing needs of our culture?
In sum, this is not a book to change anyone's mind. Those who already agree will find it reinforcing, while those unconvinced will shake their heads at its overstatements.
CAMP FOLLOWERS September 25, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
SAVE THE MALES is a long monologue cobbled together from a Google search about men, or so it seems. It's cute, then tedious, then boring.
Most of what Parker reports, I've observed and thought about. I have 5 sisters and know how the game is played.
Men will do okay in the Battle of the Sexes because of two factors: Men are prone to violence, and violence is the bottomline for all human intercourse. Two, Mother Nature loves men, and equipts us with a 6th sense about women. When the girls walk in the front door, the guys leave by the back door. So education and banking and social services and law et al become pink-collar ghettos with token girly-men. The same is happening to the police and military. Women are doomed to be camp-followers, tagging along after the warriors.
Save the Males September 7, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is "right on" with the impact radical feminism has had on our culture and is told with humor.
I think it is especially enlightening regarding young women. Parents would really benefit from reading this book. It is a quick and easy read.
 Sanity! August 10, 2008
4 out of 5 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!
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