You heard that right. The chief legal analyst for NBC News and former General Manager of MSNBC is writing a book degrading, insulting, and stereotyping an entire group of people. Despite the fact that such a major figure is behind this slap to the face of equality, the book is evoking almost no outcry what so ever. The name of the book is “Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else”. The response to this utter bigotry is truly less than encouraging. Instead of being fired like Don Imus, for such a stunt, according to Publisher’s Weekly, the publishing deal for his book actually went through, when Jennifer Levesque of the Abrams Image publishing company bought the world English rights to his book; and in addition, his book is already on pre-order on some sites, a half year in advance of its May, 2011, releasal date. To rub salt in the wound, Mother’s Day was chosen as the book’s releasal date, implying that this bigoted filth should be given as a present to help boost the egos of its target audience- die Ubermädchen. As a fellow blogger and vlogger on men’s issues, ArgusEyes of the website True Equality, has already quipped, “Mother’s day eh? Isn’t that nice. Maybe I can pick up a copy for my mum to help illustrate to her, how her son is a worthless piece of shit.”
On September 13, 2010, the media tycoon’s own website announced an interview he had with Mediaite, which he is the publisher of, of course. The interview can be read here. It’s disturbing to a high degree to me. When asked why he chose to write a book about this particular topic, instead of a topic he is a professional in, such as law, he replied by saying that “It started when I read an article on various ways that women are better than men. I found it interesting and honestly didn’t believe some of the examples they cited, so out of curiosity I researched a little to determine how much of it was backed up by actual evidence. While some of the ones from the article were speculative, as I did a little digging, I was surprised at how many serious studies and research reached the same conclusion — that women, as a group, are more thoughtful, efficient, tougher and less likely to make mistakes.”
The only thing that lends a shred of decency to this whole affair, is that he says that his book is “not an effort to beat up on us guys but it may serve as a wake up call for some.” He is of course referring to the fact that men and boys are doing poorly academically and socially, right now. How he manages to conclude that we are inferior from that; however, is beyond me. If he thinks that berating someone when they are down, is ethical, I can only imagine him going to homeless shelters on the weekends to laugh at those less fortunate, whom, indecently, are 85% male, according to the The United States Conference of Mayors. If he thinks that his insults will help anyone, he is wrong. He is only further hurting male self esteem, in a culture that demeans us so much already. Bigots like Mr. Abrams need to be shown for vile bastards that they are. Imagine a similar book, called something like “Blacks, Forget It: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Whites Are Better Rappers, Drivers, Employees, Athletes, World Leaders, Cooks, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else”. Doubtless, such a book would not be received as well as this one has, and men and boys deserve the same respect that we give to other groups in this country. I will reiterate. Don Imus got fired for much less than what Abrams has just done. Sack the bastard, I say.
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“I was surprised at how many serious studies and research reached the same conclusion — that women, as a group, are more thoughtful, efficient, tougher and less likely to make mistakes.”
With what astronomically bad luck the superior sex did suffer for thousands of years of being dominated by their inferiors.
Well, women can’t be said to have suffered for thousands of years, in a way that is unique to their gender. Every tragedy that a woman would have suffered was also experienced by her male peers. Unlike women, however, men have had tragedies unique our gender. For example, the largest mass grave in the United States is Arlington National Cemetery, with over 300,000 grave sites, filled to the brim with the broken bodies of countless boys torn away from their families and friends to be used as slave labor for the military.
Dickless punk. No doubt he’s getting laid more often now.
“not an effort to beat up on us guys but it may serve as a wake up call for some.”
so by making a book that bashes men, and trying to prove its sound legally/scientifically that men are inferior is to motivate men?
he has a dunny way of doing things
My sentiments exactly. Imagine some other media icon, like say Bill O’Reilly, making a book that claims that Germans are superior to Jews in every way, then trying to justify it by saying “It’s just science, don’t hate.” or “I’m only trying to help Israel be as successful as Germany is”…would that go over as well as this? I think not.
Stop whining you bunch of babies. Women have been oppressed for centuries and men are soley responsible for nearly every single atrocity that has occurred…ever. Read up on your history fella’s. Not to mention that women still get paid less than men for the same job. Women are still under represented in government despite being the majority of the population. One book, and you all cry foul??!! Get a grip.
@Cpa77
“Stop whining you bunch of babies.”
Do you talk this way to others, or is it just men you like to verbally abuse and berate? How is it ‘whining’ to be angry at someone – someone with influence- writing a book like this?
“Women have been oppressed for centuries”
How have women been oppressed for centuries? Do you even now the ways that men have been used, abused, and neglected since the dawn of the time?
“men are soley responsible for nearly every single atrocity that has occurred…ever.”
Way to stereotype us. I suppose we men are ‘solely’ responsible for Countress Elizabeth Báthory’s heinous murders and Empress Victoria’s concentration camps in the Boer Wars too, huh? I could go on; but, I digress. Men are not anymore responsible for murders than women are. Murderers are responsible for murders. When you understand that, you will be a better person.
“Not to mention that women still get paid less than men for the same job.”
Funny that. The US Department of Labor looked into such claims and came out with the CONSAD report, showing that no discernible amount of sexism could be found in the workplace, regarding the varying income power among men and women. Men and women have different professions and skill sets, right now, that precludes equal employment and pay. As a matter of fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, at present in almost every city in the US, women are earning more than their male peers, and that will likely continue. The reason? Since the 80’s women have been the majority of college students and people with degrees make more. The reason why the men ‘made more’ in the previous generation is why women are making more in this generation.
And while we’re on the subject, the only reason why so many men got college educations previously was the GI Bill after WWII, because the government grew a conscience over its whole enslaving young boys to fight and die thing…
“Women are still under represented in government despite being the majority of the population.”
Women are the majority of the population; because, unlike us guys, they aren’t forced to fight in wars and more is spent on their health. And what do you mean under represented in the government? The government treats us males as non-entities. Where’s the Violence Against Men Act? There’s a Violence Against Women Act, even though the vast majority of the assaulted and the murdered are male. Where’s the Federal Prohibition on Male Genital Mutilation Act? There’s a Federal Prohibition on Female Genital Mutilation Act, even though the majority of the mutilated is male across the entire world, and more damage is inflicted in male genital mutilation. Where’s the Federal Council on Men and Boy’s Health? There’s a Federal Council on Women and Girl’s Health, even though men and boys are more likely to die from every major cause of death. I could go on, endlessly; but, as far as the government is concerned we males don’t even exist. We’re not even an after thought- we’re never thought of at all.
“One book, and you all cry foul??!! Get a grip.”
You get a grip, you heartless bastard. Just like everyone else, you don’t care about us guys. You just want us to shut up about the hatred that people have for us and the sexism that’s against us. ‘Ef you.
Dear Cpa77:
Several other posters on this message board and I have recently gathered to discuss the terrible oppression you clearly suffer as an American woman. We are pleased to inform you that in an effort to relieve you of your plight, we have taken up a collection on your behalf for the purchase of a burka and one-way air-travel to a randomly-selected country in the Middle East.
As an added favor to you, we will forward to Middle-Eastern authorities your flight information and a transcript of your recently-posted comments on men. Hence, upon arrival, you will likely be received by scores of males who will undoubtedly be anxious to engage in dialogue with you regarding gender issues. It is comforting to know you will finally reside in a region where you may live and speak freely without fear of persecution.
There is no need to thank us for our gesture, as we feel this is the very least you should be afforded as compensation for the amenities denied you as a U.S. female; privileges which are instead enjoyed by U.S. males such as generous and biased support from the media and family courts, Affirmative Action, the Rape Shield law, reproductive rights, government-funded research for gender-related diseases, nationwide shelters for domestic violence victims, federal funding for study centers, V.A.W.A., gender-favored grants for college tuitions and exemption from Selective Service registration.
We hope you will enjoy your stay.
Best regards,
sdrake
P.S. Please remember to send us a postcard!
An apostrophe does not belong in “Fella’s, as used in your context because it is plural, not possessive.
Sorry to rain on your parade, sweetheart, but too many studies have been conducted, including one by the U.S. Dept. of Labor, which has debunked the gender-based wage gap myth. Time for you to learn your facts.
If you’d like to know why more men do not vote for female candidates, consider this:
What female candidate has ever promised to fight the cruel injustices committed by women who alienate children from their fathers (Kim Basinger being a classic example)? None. Which female candidate promised to go after Katie Co-uric for slapping a male employee? Not one. Why is Crystal Gail Mangum a free woman? Under oath, she falsely accused three lacrosse athletes at Duke University of rape, which ruined their lives. Can anyone name even one female candidate who has promised to prosecute women who falsely accuse men of rape? Nope. Name one female elected official who has ever actually worked toward equal rights among genders? If such a female politician existed we’d see her working to get anti-male legislation such as VAWA, Affirmative Action and Rape Shield repealed. This is yet to happen.
There isn’t a single female candidate or elected official who has ever represented or even shown concern for men as a group. Hence, if female candidates want more male votes they’re going to have to abandon their practice of SEXISM.
And btw, the word is V I A L. Not Vile. I guess women are also better spellers ; )
@Cpa77
“And btw, the word is V I A L. Not Vile. I guess women are also better spellers ; )”
Really? Is that why you spelled ‘solely’ as ‘soley’ in the above comment? Get it through that thick skull of yours, people are not perfect. You’re the worst sort of human being. You’ll jump on any opportunity to try and put men and boys down, simply because we’re not female.
Also, please learn how to actually spell ‘vile’ before you make yourself look like anymore of a fool and a bigot.
We “conspiracy nuts” have been telling the world to wake up and smell the BS for years now. Finally it is so bad that folks are waking up. THIS attack on humanity is not to be borne or children will become as in Brave New World, hatchlings from the petrie dish. “Ewww they gave birth like ANIMALS?”
I am grateful for feminism in that it allowed me to raise lovely strong young ladies able to compete in their chosen intellectual fields but that is about it. It has served a few good things but on the whole it was a bill of goods to also pull women into the work world, create more tax gains, and weaken the family unit, demolish the dignity of the male as provider and protector as such.
‘Revolution and Eros’ ~ sexual instinct used as an instrument of destruction.
‘Until now’, wrote Joseph, Comte de Maistre (1753-1821) who for fifteen years was a Freemason, ‘nations were killed by conquest, that is by invasion: But here an important question arises; can a nation not die on its own soil, without resettlement or invasion, by allowing the flies of decomposition to corrupt to the very core those original and constituent principles which make it what it is?’
From something I put together a few years ago:
The Frankfurt School attempted to work according to the quotes above to bring down the Western world and prepare it for Communist/Zionist takeover.
The task of this school, by these Jewish educators was to, as swiftly as possible, undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy.
To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution ~ but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future ~ the School recommended (among other things):
1. The creation of racism offenses.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family
To further their aims they would:
• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance ~ hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
This credo was part of the poison seeped into my generation as the feminist agenda pushed forth and highly publicized in the media, by communist Jews Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Bella Azbug among others.
Suddenly even our fathers ~ more often than not decent hard-working men who respected their wives and cared for their families ~ were painted as oppressors and our mothers oppressed because they stayed home to raise the families.
Today, the woman not only raises the family with varying degrees of assistance from her mate but she must also have a job to “maintain sense of self” as well as to just keep the family afloat financially.
Meanwhile the delicate balance of the male/female, father/daughter or father/son bond was destroyed in the process..
Munzenberg,one of the creators of this poison, summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus:
‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.’
They created “political correctness” as a means for people to become their own police and to bring unhealthy unnatural unwanted beliefs into a reluctant culture.
Now we have had programmes like Sex in the City, being peddled as fun comedies about silly women and shoes but in reality, these shows further the cause of feminism and teach that men are but a side dish on the meal of life. There for sex, a laugh, and babies ~ jolly sperm donors and sources of finance.
The only long lasting male in the show was nicknamed UniBall!
As a result, the current generation of mid twenties women are friends first, men second, and career. It is so inbuilt into our society no one even notices it. This also resulted in the societal entrenchment of the gay issue and further denigration of marriage by introducing a whole new element to the traditional male/female balance of the home.
THE COMMUNIST CHARACTER OF FEMINISM
Feminism’s roots in Marxist Communism explain a great deal about this curious but dangerous movement. It explains:
* Why the ” woman’s movement” hates femininity and imposes a political-economic concept like “equality” on a personal, biological and mystical relationship.
* Why the “women’s movement” also embraces equality of race and class.
* Why they want revolution (“transformation”) and have a messianic vision of a gender-less utopia. Bring on fashionable androgyny!
* Why they believe human nature is infinitely malleable and can be shaped by indoctrination and coercion.
* Why they engage in endless, mind-numbing theorizing, doctrinal disputes and factionalism.
* Why truth for them is a “social construct” defined by whomever has power, and appearances are more important than reality.
* Why they reject God, nature and scientific evidence in favour of their political agenda.
* Why they refuse to debate, don’t believe in free speech, and suppress dissenting views.
* Why they behave like a quasi-religious cult, or like the Red Guard.
Both genders have to stand together behind this whole evil shtick. It is part of the whole war against the qualities that made for a strong people and a strong community.
To make it easier to do as well, the feminizing estrogens brought into the food chain, the soys and the plastics, all these have a cumulative effect on male sexuality.
They have launched a multi pronged attack and yet still just one of so many on so many levels. Fewer males with less potency also means population reduction and helps the culling of the hordes.
We have to educate each other and stand side by side and refuse to accept it. Refuse to be divided. Non compliance and resistance. And shut people like this idiot author up right from the getgo.
THAT is the divide and conquer that is sought by those who began this whole war on the males of the world. They get stronger as their victims quibble and kill each other.
For a lot of information on this subject, Henry Makow’s site, formerly known as “SAVE THE MALES” is an excellent eye opener.
For one thing feminism hits at the strongest most fundamental block of any culture, the family. This is a nation’s weakest link because a strong family raises strong children who are family oriented which is exactly NOT what the Communist movement wants. They want the state to be everything. I saw a good example of this the other day on a YouTube on the Chinese earthquake a few years ago. The leader of China was comforting a crying child and saying to her, “It will be alright, Mother Homeland will take good care of you.”
Feminism was dropped upon us at the same time as playboyism (as I call it) was dropped on males. The former was to turn the females away from domesticity and make her restless, discontented, the latter to let the males see what women were like and raise false Hefner type dreams of airbrushed naked blondes eager and so perfectly always ready. It reduced women to urinal status and introduced the glory of “freedom”. Strange Hef was there at just the right time, isn’t it? Don’t think too hard on that one. He happens to be Jewish as were the leaders of feminism. Funny how that works out.
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL: CONSPIRACY TO CORRUPT
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2009/05/frankfurt-school-conspiracy-to-corrupt_23.html
AMERICAN COMMUNISM AND THE RISE OF FEMINISM
http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/03/american-communism-and-rise-of-feminism_03.html
By ignoring the fact that his conclusions are based on scientific research, you just prove his point, boys. Whining because nature/nurture makes women contributing, cooperative, stoic saints while making men selfish, competitive, violent brutes doesn’t change reality.
We women brought you into the world, we created you from our own flesh and blood; why is it such a surprise that we are better than you? You just haven’t been paying attention. Time to evolve into more enlightened beings, little brats. The world won’t wait forever for you to catch up.
@Ivy Shoots
“Whining because nature/nurture makes women contributing, cooperative, stoic saints while making men selfish, competitive, violent brutes doesn’t change reality.”
Way to stereotype everyone. If women are really all of these things, all of the time, why are you here being the exact opposite of saintly by insulting so many people? Men are not bad, and we deserve more respect than the vitriolic hatred that’s thrown at us everyday.
“We women brought you into the world, we created you from our own flesh and blood; why is it such a surprise that we are better than you?”
Oh, you Christians and your belief in immaculate conception. You make laugh. Way to fail at science. You like me, are here just as much because of a man as a woman. Women didn’t create anything from their flesh and blood. Children come from gametes, both male and female gametes, not integumentary or erythrocytes. Go back to school.
“You just haven’t been paying attention. Time to evolve into more enlightened beings, little brats. The world won’t wait forever for you to catch up.”
Translation: ‘Back at my trailer park, all the other bigotries were taken, so I had to settle for harassing males.’
It’s so cute when second-rate debaters invent self-serving “facts” about their betters, in a pathetic attempt to preserve their own illusions of adequacy. I must be a “Christian” from a “trailer park” who needs to “go back to school” because I dared to confront you with FACTS. Ad hominem much?
“You like me, are here just as much because of a man as a woman. Women didn’t create anything from their flesh and blood.” LOL And you’re telling ME to get educated on how babies are made? FYI a baby must be formed in a uterus, an organ men lack. A single fertilized cell grows over an extended period in a WOMAN’S uterus, getting 100% of the energy and nutrition it needs to develop into a person from HER body alone. No man can make that happen.
Equating the squirt of a sperm donation with the monumental accomplishment of actually CREATING a living, breathing, 8-lb human being over the better part of a year is something only a tone-deaf moron would attempt. Bravo.
“an organ men lack”
We got a sharp one here
Please don’t talk about science, Ever. If you understood it You would understand that conception and birth is not some “accomplishment” not some “miracle” It’s a simple biological process that we understand well with science. Your appreciation of it as if it’s something special is a testament to your stupidity.
Well I guess that’s why we have the likes of justin Bieber on the verge of launching his new line of nail polish called ‘one less lonely girl’.
If u can bear it try Aangirfan’s post ‘ Justin Bieber – Unisex Fragrance, Jewish Prayer and Gang Signs’ to see the boy coiffured and lipsticked on the front of a teen magazine.
Pederasty and Feminism come from the same source
cheers
@aferrismoon
“Well I guess that’s why we have the likes of justin Bieber on the verge of launching his new line of nail polish called ‘one less lonely girl’.”
How does Dan Abrams book automatically translate into some cosmetic product coming out??? What does this have to do with my article?
“Pederasty and Feminism come from the same source”
Are christian priests feminists then? Again, what does this have to do with my article?
The book translates / transmutes as it ‘scientifically’ shows that women are ‘better’ than men, so it as a survival instinct , dress like a gal. Use the attractiveness of make-up to garner attention/wealth.
As with feminism only those female traits that acquire wealth are employed. Motherhood is passe. Note the mother of Bieber who sold her son to music execs to be feminised.
All priests of orthodox religions are in the employ of matriarchy, though they claim ‘God’.
Feminism does seem like a religion. Don’t show support for it bet you lose tenure.
cheers
@aferrismoon
“All priests of orthodox religions are in the employ of matriarchy, though they claim ‘God’.
Feminism does seem like a religion. Don’t show support for it bet you lose tenure.”
Words can not describe how little sense this makes. Are you trying to say that there is some mass conspiracy between the different religions, and you count feminism – a philosophy – as a religion too?? And what’s this about tenure?? Why is money involved??
Not to be rude, but this babbling makes no sense to me, either in content or in grammar…
Please rephrase it, if you want me to understand what on earth you’re trying to say.
BOYCOTT AMERICAN WOMEN
Why American men should boycott American women
http://boycottamericanwomen.blogspot.com/
I am an American man, and I have decided to boycott American women. In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to cheat on you, to divorce you, to get fat, to steal half of your money in the divorce courts, don’t know how to cook or clean, don’t want to have children, etc. Therefore, what intelligent man would want to get involved with American women?
American women are generally immature, selfish, extremely arrogant and self-centered, mentally unstable, irresponsible, and highly unchaste. The behavior of most American women is utterly disgusting, to say the least.
This blog is my attempt to explain why I feel American women are inferior to foreign women (non-American women), and why American men should boycott American women, and date/marry only foreign (non-American) women.
BOYCOTT AMERICAN WOMEN!
@Boycott
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to cheat on you”
Do you have statistics to back this up?
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to…divorce you,”
Do you have statistics to back this up? What are the divorce rates in other countries? Also, what if you don’t care about marriage anyway?
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to…get fat”
Do you have statistics to back this up? What’s the obesity rate of females in other countries? I remember reading a while back that there was a very high rate of obesity in France and Italy, though I can’t place the article. Also, what if you don’t care about your lover(s) being fat or not?
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to…to steal half of your money in the divorce courts”
Do you have statistics to back this up? Again, what if you don’t care about marriage? Also, what are the divorce courts like in other countries?
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to…don’t know how to cook or clean”
Do you have statistics to back this up? What is the average culinary and hygienic knowledge in other countries? Also, what if you actually like to do those things? Why then would need someone else to do it for you? Why would this be a significant factor in determining a mate, anyway? One could always teach your lover the things they don’t already know. That’s what couples do.
“In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to…don’t want to have children, etc.”
Do you have statistics to back this up? What are the birthrates in other countries? I read a while back that the US had the highest birthrate of any industrialized country. Also, what if you don’t want children anyway?
Listen, to be frank, you’re just stereotyping female Americans. If this is all you have to say, then don’t come to my blog again. What you want in a mate, isn’t necessarily what others want in a mate, so don’t act like these, frankly, very subjective and shallow desires are so universal and necessary to a happy relationship. Not everyone cares if their lover is fat or good at cooking and crap. For example, I, personally, like cooking, so I probably wouldn’t let my lover do the cooking often anyway. ^^
“American women are generally immature, selfish, extremely arrogant and self-centered, mentally unstable, irresponsible, and highly unchaste. The behavior of most American women is utterly disgusting, to say the least.”
Suffice to say, I don’t care about your relationship advice, and unless you have anything relevant to say about the article, in which you posted your comment on, or about the wider topic of men’s rights, which this blog discusses, I don’t want you and your disgusting bigotry here again. You would never say the exact same thing about blacks or gays, because its much more obvious how incredibly bigoted it is.
Abrams is gay and gays tend to side with feminist/women to put down men.
I do not know what sexual preference Mr. Abrams has; but, not all gays hate men. Think about it for a second, why would gay MEN all spread hatred about themselves? Like straights, most gays are egalitarian. There are some people who are self-hating in this world, and Abrams is certainly one of them; but, not that many. And this is to say nothing of your conspiratorial accusation that Abrams is working with feminists. Similarly to the above, not all feminists hate men. Some do, and there have been some HORRENDOUS bigots in their movement; but, there have also been some really cool ones. Look up the name Christina Hoff Sommers, to name one example. She’s been as advocate for men and boys for quite some time. Also look up Wendy McElroy, while you’re at it. If you actually put a little time aside for researching this, you’ll see that not all feminists are misandrists. You’d do well to not stereotype groups of people as much as seem to do here.
So, I heard about this book on the news the other day. CNN, to be exact. It was introduced by a female anchor. I knew what was coming.
In the teaser at the beginning of the segment she nonchalantly declares, “And now, proof for what we ladies have known all along”.
“Proof for what we ladies have known all along”.
I couldn’t help being infuriated by this. I guess it’s easy to be smug when you’re not on the receiving end of an attack. She may have intended it as a joke, but I couldn’t care less. I thought, someone in the mainstream will have a problem with this.
Apparently not. I’ve spent the past couple of days periodically digging around on the internet for anyone, anyone at all, with substantial clout in the mainstream public sphere admonishing Mr. Abrams for, at the very least, his choice in title. It seems that no one really cares.
Now, I do consider myself to have done a pretty good job insulating myself against the baseless claims which are shot in my direction from all sides. However I think that this is different, and it cuts me deeper than “Men are pigs”, and other such slurs.
I hold science on a pedestal as a way of disseminating truth into the populace. It is, in my opinion, the end-all-be-all when it comes to determining the truth or falsity of things that can be determined true or false.
Now, I’m not making any definite claims yet, obviously – but I would not be the least bit surprised if Mr. Abrams was selective in his choosing of studies, I wouldn’t be surprised if he used studies that were far from reputable. I wouldn’t be surprised if he slants the meaning of certain research results with the self-denigrating, “charming” humor that’s sure to make him a hit on Dr. Phil – and I wouldn’t be surprised if the traits which are actually superior in females, generally have an equivalent in men (and vice-versa), which renders claims of superiority frivolous and tacky.
This is what makes me so angry. The fact that he is most likely using faux science (which I understand as only using what supports your case) to “prove” female superiority. It would even be better in my mind if he had compiled the studies, and published them in a more formal manner. Perhaps as an exploration of differences between the genders. Of course, that book wouldn’t sell nearly as well as, “Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else”.
I would say that this book especially has the potential to be immensely damaging to the already beaten & bloodied public perception of men – not just in America, but elsewhere.
Anyway.
Sorry, if I got ranty. This is one of the first places I’ve found that’s actually talking about this without jumping to the defense of the author and calling detractors “sexist”, I needed to let loose.
As a nineteen year old male, it hurts me deeply knowing that I’m most likely going to be dealing with this kind of unprovoked, profiteering slander for the rest of my life.
Connor,
Unfortunately, you’re part of the generation that is too young to remember the pre-feminist era, when males were actually respected in our society.
However, I’m encouraged that even at your age you’re able to recognize the propaganda and brainwashing that is so prevalent from the mainstream media.
The only way we men are going to stop this insidious male-bashing, which is constantly thrust upon us is to fight it, tooth and nail. Joining men’s rights groups is a good start and certainly your recognition of the problem is a beginning. Thank you for your insightful comments.