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Forty years have passed since the so-called women's movement claimed to liberate women from preconceived notions of what it means to be female - and the results are in. The latest statistics show that as women have gained more freedom, more education, and more power, they have become less happy. In The Flipside of Feminism, Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly provide readers with a new view of women in America - casting off the ideology that preaches faux empowerment and liberation from men and marriage. Their book demonstrates that conservative women are, in fact, the most liberated women in America and the folks to whom young people should be turning for advice. Their confident and rational approach to the battle of the sexes is precisely what America needs.

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A former teacher-turned-social critic, Suzanne Venker is an author and speaker on politics, marriage, parenting, and the culture. A well-known commentator on cultural issues, Suzanne has appeared on ABC, CNN, FOX, Huff-Po Live and C-Span--as well as hundreds of radio shows throughout the country, including the Laura Ingraham Show. How to Choose a Husband is her third book.

Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. Author of 20 books, Schlafly has written a monthly newsletter since 1967 called The Phyllis Schlafly Report and a syndicated column, which appears in 100 newspapers. Her daily radio commentaries are heard daily on over 600 stations, and her radio talk show on education called Eagle Forum Live is heard weekly on 90 stations. She lived in St. Louis.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ WND Books; First Edition, First edition (March 15 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935071270
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935071273
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 504 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm

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SUZANNE VENKER is the author of five books on the culture’s assault on marriage and the family (and how to circumvent it), as well as a marriage coach and podcast host of The Suzanne Venker Show. For over 15 years, Suzanne has taught women how to succeed with men in life and in love. She’s a leading voice for millions of women and men who know that a partnership with the opposite sex is superior to constant competition. Suzanne’s extensive research, combined with her sound and compelling arguments, dispel feminist myths that have infiltrated society and undermined women’s most important relationships. She has helped women:

• embrace the way men and women are naturally wired

• prioritize marriage and relationships over career

• express their unique value outside the marketplace

• enjoy the power of their femininity in sex and relationships

• build a lasting, satisfying relationship with a man

• build a flexible career that accommodates the needs of children and family life

Suzanne is a former columnist at the Washington Examiner and former contributor at Fox News. Her 2012 article, “The War on Men,” remains one of Fox News’ most read op-eds in history.

Suzanne’s work has also appeared in publications such as Time, USA Today, and the New York Post and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Huffington Post and London’s Daily Mail.

Her TV credits include Fox & Friends, STOSSEL, The View, CNN, ABC and more. She has appeared on hundreds of radio programs throughout the country, and her work has been featured on “The Dr. Laura Program,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Rush Limbaugh Show.”

A former English teacher, Suzanne was born in St. Louis, MO, and graduated from Boston University in 1990. After ten years on the East Coast, Suzanne returned to the Midwest, where she now lives with her husband of 23 years and their two teenagers, who are now in college. Her website is www.suzannevenker.com.

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Charlie the Chaste

Shockingly Good

Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2018

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I bought this hoping I was not wasting my money and it has shocked me.

I wish I read this book when I was 16. I can't recommend it highly enough.

I read a lot and few books are better written, more insightful or more relevant to understanding our culture.

Obviously this is a controversial subject so the writer's prose is even more elegant considering the turbulent subject material.

This book has dramatically changed my life. I am no longer the same, I understand our culture, myself, men and women like I did not before.

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Concise and easy to read style (although emotionally slightly difficult)

Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2016

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Concise and easy to read style (although emotionally slightly difficult). Informative and lots of citations to back up her (their) suppositions. It was a great collaboration between the two authors. The book does exactly what the title says, exposes the subversively selfish side of feminism along with the consequences it brings by choosing this "ism." I would highly recommend this book as a balancing of information that women are currently receiving from culture, so they will understand and know the whole truth of their choices.

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Kayla Jacobs

Incredible book

Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2018

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This book is necessary for mother's who have sons.

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Mikhaila Fuller

Informative and Brutally Honest

Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2011

At first i was kind of insulted while reading this book. i felt like the authors were too hard on liberals, and conservatives, and everyone for that matter. the more i read the more i agreed with what the book stated. This is the book i've read that has given the truth in a neat and sharp little package. This is a book everyone should read. Men and women. People should know that feminists are anti feminine. they aren't pro equal rights. they're just anti-men, and anti-family, and anti-tradition. And as a 19 year old girl in the 21st century. i am angrier at this than anything else in my life. Feminists got rid of the law stating that men had to take care of their families. Women now have to have a career AND have children if they want. that is wayyyyy too much work for a mother. feminisms put the idea that women were bored, and stuck at home. but guess what? most females like their children, and want to stay home.
i really appreciate this book.

The other couple of books i can really recommend are "The Male Brain" and "The Female Brain". Written by Louann Brizendine M.D

The Male Brain The Female Brain

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Feminist gal

Feminism: the radical notion that women are people

Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2012

It's hard to believe these women are not just jealous at the freedom women have gained over the years. I mean, WHAT do these 2 women want, to paraphrase Freud's famous phrase? What exactly are they upset about? That women have gained a place in society? That we are no longer treated as 2nd class citizens? Feminism was, IS, about giving women more options. It's about empowering women, letting their voice heard, ensuring equal conditions in the workplace, making sure women have access to that workplace in the first place. Even if they have kids.

Feminists have kids. Lots of them. And we love them! We just don't think women should be tied to a narrow conception of what "being a woman" means. Which means that we don't think women's sole place is barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.

You've also got to wonder why these women have to constantly utter the word "liberal" as if it were some bad word. And we progressive folks have to start reappraising the word "liberal" in the first place.

Because we don't live in the 1950s anymore. And despite what the authors contend, I don't know too many women who think those years were glorious for women and that we should go back to that time when women were at the mercy of their husband and had little say over their lives. And considering feminism has still so much to offer to women (and men, who also benefit from equal relations between the sexes!), considering there are still some very real obstacles for women to overcome, both in their professional and private lives, the movement is not about to die out, much to the chagrin of the authors. And I will continue to proudly consider myself a feminist and to speak up loud and clear against gender inequalities and sexist policies.

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BITEMEFILMFEST

shame on feminists...

Reviewed in Canada on December 15, 2011

shame on feminists for fighting to get women recognized as 'persons' under the law
shame on feminists for helping to take down a law (who am I kidding...many laws) which allowed for women to be beaten by their husbands and treated like property (heck we couldn't own any...so why not be treated like some, right?)
shame on feminists for working with queer feminists, feminists of colour you name it to create a better (not perfect!) world where women all over the globe can begin conversations on how to eradicate inequity, sex and gender based, race and class based, governmental, policy driven etc. oppressions
shame on feminists for trying to transform young girls who are obsessed with having the perfect body OR obsesseed with being some boys play thing into "feminists" (oh dear...I'm not sure if that word FEMINISM should even be allowed in public funded schools..what a crime on humanity to teach girls about choices, activism and systemic discrimination...let's just keep teenage pregnancy on a rise without addressing any of the underlying issues. Hey they'll make great mothers..who cares if they are 15 or 12!)
It's a real real real shame that Feminism existed in the first place. This is a great book. N to the O to the T!
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aurora

load of crap 0 stars!!!!

Reviewed in Canada on March 25, 2014

Phyllis is best known for leading opposition to the equal rights amendement so, you know, women couldn't be descrimminated against based on their gender. Self-defeating much? Hey Phyllis, you should probably stop participating in public life since that's no place for a woman.
It is an absolute joke that this woman was actually awarded an honourariam degrees in 2008 - would we give someone staunchly oopposed to racial equality and black rights an honourariam degree? No, which tells us how much more work feminists have to do that nut bags like this are still acceptable in main stream society. Maybe if she had actually attended University and EARNED them (wow, thanks feminism! women can earn degrees!) she wouldn't be so draconian and ass-backwards.

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Redsilas

Wish I read this book in my younger years

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2012

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Other reviews hit the nail on the head in terms of what is discussed in this book. I'll just give a background on where I come from. My parents were staunch Republicans and I turned out to be the hippy hard core vegan liberal daughter who emulated the 60's peace movements in the 1990's and fought for co-ops and animal right and women's right in my young teen years. I was this way for over a decade. When I hit the age of 30, something felt not quite right.

Even though I was hard core liberal, I was honestly against abortion the entire time. I fought in the name of women's right to have an abortion, but yet felt it was wrong. After I graduated college and started teaching in the public school, I knew something was going on, and it wasn't right. I taught in a Midwestern inner city school where the majority of my students were on both the free breakfast and lunch programs, most didn't know if their homes would have running water that night, or where they would be sleeping. In one class alone, 22 out of 35 kids lived with their mom only. A few knew who their dads were. Quite a number had siblings sired by different fathers and the mom still by herself. These kids, living in poverty, although may have seemed dumb to the outside world, were very very smart. They had to be to survive. They didn't like that they didn't know or have a male figure in their lives. What their mom's called 'a woman's right to have a baby without a father present' only brought sadness on their kids. They wanted to have a dad or adult male figure present in their lives. They didn't want a slew of mom's 'boyfriends' coming over. Several kids joked that their 'mom is a ho'. To them their mom's feminist lifestyle (as the moms would put it) was not seen that way by their kids.

This was the first time my liberal world was shattered. I was still a hard core liberal, but the shell was beginning to crack.

I begin to wonder why feminist groups were so hard for pushing and pushing 'womens rights' in the form of abortions and the pill. Although this is still being debated, even to this day, I wondered why feminists weren't pushing for health right to HAVE a baby instead of trying to either get rid of a pregnancy or not even have one. Women are biologically meant to have children. I understand there are times when birth control is needed and effective in it's job. Long term relationships, maybe you have PCOS and need the BCP to regulate your hormones, I understand that.

Then I hit 30. A few more things shattered in in the liberal shell I had going. I quit being vegan and vegetarian all together. This was due to an iron count so low I was about to go anemic. No amount of prescription iron pills were helping. Although the GP applauded my vegetarian/vegan lifestyle, he said it's not for every body type.
I also took a job overseas and saw how universal health care works in other countries, I also saw how other cultures around the world value a mother at home, or not necessarily home ALL the time, but a good family structure. I started to listen to my older relatives how communication is important in relationship and today's women are all about 'gimme gimme gimme' in the relationships but unwilling to give back in return. I looked at how my friend's relationships would crumble because the women wanted to run the relationship in total, no exceptions made. At work I ran into a slew of older, unmarried women without children who made their jobs their careers and how miserable they were. Many realized too late that they wish they put a relationship and a family first, but now in their late 40's/early 50's it was too late for them. Many regretted it, even those that were hard core feminists. They knew they would spend their retirement years alone and wish they had children.

I made the change completely from hard core liberal to conservative AFTER I met my husband. At this point I was 'getting up in years' even though I was in my 30's. I knew I wanted children at this time, something I was against when I was younger. I admit I had a hard time making the change because the feminist agenda pushes women NOT to accept being a wife and mother.

The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Can't Say basically brings home what I felt at that point. I realized what the feminist agenda was at that time, how it hurt me in my past relationships, and what it is doing today. Yes, I'm a mom that works because I need to and my child needs the social integration and structure at the specialist school we're sending him too. I hate having my kids in daycare during the day. I feel guilt even though all the feminists around me at work tell it it's okay. I get more satisfaction staying at home with my kids than I do at work. And yes, we plan on having more kids, at which point I will stay home (I make a bit more than the daycare costs right now).

This book sums up practically everything I've felt about the evolution of feminism. It WAS good and served a purpose back in the day, but now it has morphed into a horrible horrible monster that pushes a destructive agenda that not only hurts women, but uses children as battlefield fodder and treats men like a dog going to an animal shelter.

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Arya

I am a liberal and I loved the rational and the power of perspective in this book

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020

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I am a 37 years old liberal man. I came from a culture that values marriage and the formation of family as the sort of partnership. I am also an advocate of equality and have done extensive work in Silicon Valley which is notorious for its toxic corporate culture and the kind of drama happens with women at work. But rationally speaking, I am able to separate the two concerns, something that most feminists confuse to dissect by the kind of feminist rhetoric that c-suite executives like Sheryl Sandberg and Ellen Pao vouch for. My heart has always been with all those women who have been hurt and abused, but that is also a separate concern. I have experienced the hookup culture and as a man was never fulfilled. I asked a lot of questions from feminist friends of mine, but I noticed a sense of dogma amongst them. They often confuse the employment rights, and voting rights which were the original purposes of feminist movement with social liberation. I have explored the lives of all of the women I have been with in depth. We all had a deep connection. I have also read almost half of the citations in this book beforehand and am very knowledgeable about different branches of feminism and its history. The truth I have found is that something about all those liberated women irks themselves. They are not happy. I did a tally of over 136 families and relationships that I know to cross reference the views described in this book. It checks out. A lot of divorce and separation has been happening amongst my liberated friends, and they are all in turmoil. I didn’t get married till now, because I have had no confidence on what is the right thing to do, but I can tell you this. The few encounters I had with liberal feminists were not satisfying. I didn’t feel my hard work, strengths and values were appreciated. I have worked really hard my entire life in hopes of creating a happy family that I never had. And guess what, my own family and several other families whom I know, were tarnished due to some feminist influence supplying women with some sort of escape goat. At work, we work hard to promote team building, foster connections, remove competition and unite people toward a common goal. However, feminism has not provided a framework for that, and the messaging has gone so confusing for women that they simply don’t know what to do. They hurt themselves over and over again. Feminism has created a social war, and argues with issues that are not measurable. We are losing our framework of raising happy families and children. I for one, can say that I was not happy being brought up without my parents together. Neither the children of those families whom I know lost it due to feministic liberation. But I do think that there is a better way. I have studied ecofeminism, and I think that might be a better approach. At least it tunes in with the true nature of women, another thing which neofeminist and liberal feminists disagree. They don’t want to admit their movement has created unresolved problems in society. The divorce rate since the 70s is up 35% and the women are the ones who initiate it without any good reason, but to say they are not happy. As a child who was hurt my heart is with all those who feel the same. I want a happy family and upbringing for everyone. I want equal rights for everyone. I don’t like racism and homophobia either, but please read this book. I don’t associate anything to politics, so I don’t judge if this book is far right or not, but even if it sounds far right to you, can we think about the arguments it makes and really put some critical thinking behind it? I think this book has laid out the negative impact of feminism to a great extent and all the research and citations are scholarly and are done by credible folks who actually know what they are talking about and who have been working hard doing therapy for decades among families. I am going back to my root on this topic. I don’t want another unfulfilling relationship. And this book lays it out clearly what women should do to create a fulfilling relationship.

I don’t believe in God, but may the powers of the universe be upon you and thank you the authors for your work.

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Russ

How the liberals wrecked western civilization

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2013

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How Liberals Wrecked Western Civilization is a terrific expose of how a few very misguided and undoubtedly mentally ill women infected western civilization, aided and abetted, as usual, by a co-conspiratorial mainstream media. Surprisingly, radical feminists forgot that about half their children would be male. How interesting it is to now see those same pro-feminist women anguishing as their (male) children are denied entry into medical school (because women take precedence) law school (because females take precedence) and virtually any kind of post-secondary school because - preference is given to women. Interesting to see feminists squirm as their boy children are divorced - one for the second time, and now down to 1/4 of his original assets thanks to feminist rules that part men from about half wealth after even cohabiting with a woman for as little as 2 months. Feminists forgot about human nature - and most importantly, human biology. In their rush to overturn the mythical 'patriarchy' (I've live a lifetime and never met a single patriarch) they forgot basic research on female biology. Their fertility rate peaks in the teens (24%), drops to about 18% by the mid-20's, down to 11% by the mid-30's, and falls to 2% by 40. No wonder there are fertility clinics everywhere! What a calamitous oversight. How stupid, actually. So many women bought into the poison of feminism and now find themselves old and miserable, without a husband, children, or grand-children. Thanks to these wretches western society has been brought to its knees. While a fertility rate of 2.1 is needed just to hold a population stable every single country that has been 'feminized' has rates in the 1.1 (Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Austria) to 1.6 (Canada, US, Netherlands) range. The populations of all western countries is collapsing, held afloat only through third world immigration, which brings with is a tremendously high cultural price. Good work, girls!

Addendum - March 6, 2013. 46 people have given a 5 star rating to this thought provoking book. But 25 have given it just one star. This is a typical liberal tactic known as 'swarming'. If someone dares express thoughts that don't conform to rigid leftist liberal ideology, you swarm them. Something akin to gang-rape. If they're attempting to speak, you talk over them, as loudly and intrusively as needed in order to deprive them of their right to express themselves. Feminists do this regularly on college campuses when pro-life groups attempt to hold rallies. This is what liberals do; this is what communists do; this is what Marxists do. This is a strategy straight out of the Marxist playbook, a strategy imparted to impressionable youth who haven't yet figured life out.

A single star rating for this factual, well researched book is simply not an honest assessment of this profound expose of the damage leftist feminists have done to society in general and unintentionally to themselves as well as a result of their "long march through the institutions" they began in the '60s. Only the extremely biased, disingenuous left could possibly assign such a low rating. In doing so these 25 individuals have inadvertently demonstrated one of the book's primary theses - that leftists are the most intolerant, aggressive, nasty, narrow-minded, dogmatic, biased, caustic, shallow, perverse, intellectually deficient group of people you're ever likely to meet. Throughout history their pogroms have heaped death and destruction on mankind, killing upwards of 100 million and making life utter misery for hundreds of millions more. In their latest incarnation through their promotion of abortion and warfare between men and women they have decimated the West's fertility rate, pushing us well below sustenance levels, resulting in a dearth of young people and an aging population with no replacement workers to fill the growing void. They have, in effect, kneecapped civilization, placing it on the slow track to oblivion. Again, congratulations, girls. The only consolation I suppose is that women are themselves now reaping the bitter harvest sown by a few of their mentally ill cohorts.

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Paul Vjecsner

A window is opened to let in nature's fresh air again

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2011

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Although my gender may make feminists view me as a "male chauvinist pig", I'll dare to applaud the book's two authors. As women they make their stance more plausible, and it confirms to me that both men and women are born with an instinct for the needs of the other, contrary to feminist contention that men don't understand women.

The authors are occasionally still susceptible to political correctness, as by the use of "Ms" (or is it done tongue-in-cheek?). They also, rarely, seem to support the ideas that women should be "strong" and "independent" rather than "soft" and "submissive" (p.7). I may not support submissiveness, but softness is a long-recognized merit. As George Sanders said in "Samson and Delilah" (roughly): "Women don't conquer men by the force of arms but by their softness". And an Irving Berlin song in "Annie Get Your Gun": "The girl that I marry will have to be - as soft and as pink as a nursery" (complexion can really differ).

When I first, somewhat naively, heard feminist arguments, I was astounded when it was complained that women are "underrepresented" in such and such jobs. It was my ignorant understanding that most women aspired to be married and homemakers. It was men in most societies that had the responsibility of provider, whether having the most desirable job or not. Once I saw on TV a feminist complaining that even in the primitive past when food was obtained by hunting, "men got to hunt, while women had to stay at home". Some immature fantasy. As the authors maintain under "Fighting Human Nature" (p.44, foll.), there are "innate differences between men and women", "more men than women may like engineering, more women than men may want to stay home with the kids". The authors note (p.131) that women do not "take the dangerous and unpleasant jobs that men take to support their families", and regarding 9/11 (p.182): "The death tally of New York City's firefighters was: men 343, women 0. Can anyone honestly say you would have wanted a woman coming to your rescue on that fateful day?"

The authors quote (p.171) heartrending stories. By Ann Taylor Fleming: "I am a woman of forty who put career ahead of motherhood and now longs for motherhood....I belong to the sisterhood of the infertile. I am a lonesome, babyless baby boomer now completely consumed by the longing for a baby....I am tempted to roll down the window and shout 'Hey, hey, Gloria, Germaine, Kate. Tell us, how does it feel to have ended up without babies, children, flesh of your flesh. Was your ideology worth the empty womb?'" By Germaine Greer: "I was desperate for a baby and I have the medical bills to prove it. I still have pregnancy dreams, waiting for something that will never happen."

Also mentioned by the authors is some feminists' goal to make this a woman's world. There seems no need for it. There was a movie in the 1950s called "Woman's World", which centered on the importance of wives in the careers of their husbands, with men's careers revolving around women. Women of course play a central role in our lives, beginning with motherhood. The authors have a section on pedestals (p.174) for both genders, and before feminism there was much reference to the placing of women on pedestals by men. Gallantry has a long tradition; we say, "ladies and gentlemen", we insist on women and children to be helped first in dire circumstances, etc. This book is very welcome for endeavoring to restore this natural state.

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I wish I could give this to my wife and to a few impressionable young feminists I've met

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2013

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As a man, I am not supposed to have a voice about women or feminism (according to the feminists).

Yet when I was in college, I called myself a feminist-- in the sense that I was for equal rights for women. I married a strong woman who has a career in public leadership, and I support her in this.

A few decades of experience, however, makes this book ring very true. The fact is, feminism has gone way too far past balance. It has turned into man-bashing. In insisting that men and women are not different from each other, feminists are frustrated that all women do not follow their choices. They demand equality of outcomes and choices, not just equality of opportunity. In doing so, they cause all kinds of mischief. A very small example is the destruction of many college sports that were typically dominated by males, through the use of quotas and proportionality rules-- that is, if college X can't cobble together enough women wrestlers to make a team, then they have to shut down the men's wrestling team or run the risk of lawsuits. It should be obvious this is unfair to men-- not very many women want to be wrestlers, so you can't either. It would be more obvious if it were flipped around. Not enough men want to do ballet, so we'll shut down the ballet program for women, too.

In short, modern feminism is a threat to women because it demands that they make choices which radicals think will lead to equality of *outcomes*. It's no longer just about whether a woman has equal choice or opportunity. When women naturally tend to choose different things than men, feminism actively tries to undermine them. And it's a threat to men because in an attempt to force society into their mold, feminists are denying men the choices to be what they naturally want to be. Feminism has turned from giving women more choice and opportunity, to denying choice and opportunity to both men and women and attempting to dictate how they should live, often contrary to the natural tendencies of the two sexes.

All in all, this book should "empower" (to use a favorite feminist term) women that are truly open-minded and don't necessarily want to be told by radicals how they should live and what choices they should make. It shows women that they can be in control of their lives, but informed with a more realistic view of how male and female natures interact, and knowing that life is not all about doing whatever you want-- that in the big picture, life satisfaction is much higher, especially for women, in planning for and pursuing more than just a career. And, that they will be much happier if they are not constantly feeling like victims, but realistically making choices that follow their own instincts and agendas and not those of radicals.

Nevertheless, feminism has become such a pervasively corrosive force in our culture that I hesitate to recommend this book to my wife. I am not sure if she will simply shut down at the premise and take offense, or would truly be open-minded enough to consider the ideas within.

Isn't that scary, if you think about it? You're not even allowed to question something that is so destructive to society and even to your own relationships and life choices.

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