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Stale Donuts: A Gender First Among Equals

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Orwell once said that "people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf". In the Democrahive of the future, such men no longer exist, or are very few, and all men are subject to rigid controls and reconditioning (such as in the medimasculinity program). The self-evident truths of this world enslave, not liberate, and Democrahive is effectively a totalitarian state-not one based on race or class; but gender. On the surface this book is a `race against time' adventure. Not very far below the surface, it is a brilliant and savage critique of modern feminism, and the institutions in society that support it; as well as an exploration of its trajectory. Surprisingly too, considering all that, it is also at times very funny.

So, can such a State survive a threat from one of those unconditioned `rough men', and do its very tenets contain the seeds of its own destruction? It is well worth finding out the answer to this question, and there is great fun to be had as well in the author's use of language and metaphor to describe the `regimes of truth' in the world he has created. But ardent feminists should probably be warned that they may afterwards be in need of an aspirin and a good lie down. I doubt that they will be sleeping peaceably, however!

George Orwell revisited! Democrahive is a future police state that is run by women and only one man, a microbiologist, can save them. ARUGB, a terrorist organization has unleashed a deadly virus that could wipe out 80 percent of the population, and time is quickly running out. What a trial it is for Dr. Simon to find a cure.
Mr. Farmer caught my attention and held it throughout the whole book. Do not forget to read between the lines.

This book had an incredibly interesting concept with women running the world. Men are just scum and can be arrested for merely looking at a women wrong. It really invokes a lot of emotion when you read what they do to men in the justice system. It reminded me of Jewish people being killed during the Holocaust just because of their religion. The reasons are stupid and,in many cases, didn't even happen. The end of the book was incredibly clever and you finally get the title of the book. Chris Farmer needs to write more books like this one. This book really makes you think and certainly makes you grateful for the system we do live in. And as appealing as the thought is of women having more power in the world, nobody should want it to end up the way it does in this book and you can't help having great sympathy for the men and rooting for them throughout this book.