The War Against Men [Paperback]

Richard T. Hise (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2004

I had become aware of and concerned in recent years about the number of friends and acquaintances who were being savagely victimized by the women in their lives. Premature deaths, extra-marital affairs (with tragic consequences for husbands and children), false allegations that destroyed lives, physical and mental abuse, excessive and uncontrolled spending that jeopardized families? finances, and humiliating and embarrassing incidents in public are just some of what I saw or was told about. In virtually all of these cases, the victims were God-fearing, family-loving and hard-working men?the individuals to whom this book is dedicated.

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This book will enrage anyone who is able to judge the situation fairly and who is outraged by inequity and falsehood. For those of us who have sensed that all is not right with the portrayal and treatment of men in today's America, it offers documented evidence that our suspicions are right, and it offers us facts with which to beat back the conflagration of hatred against our fathers, sons and brothers by women who hate all men and distort the truth in order to portray decent males as monsters merely for the crime of being male.

About the Author

Richard T. Hise is professor of Marketing at Texas A&M University, author of several books and consultant to major U.S. corporations. He is listed in Who's Who In America.

Product Details

• Paperback: 259 pages
• Publisher: Elderberry Press, LLC (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1930859619
• ISBN-13: 978-1930859616
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #546,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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74 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars On Target Assessment of Anti-male Hysterical Blame Game, June 4, 2005

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Paul - See all my reviews

This review is from: The War Against Men (Paperback)

It is amusing , in a pathetic kind of way, to see the whiny self-described feminists complaining about this and similar types of books. The real hypocrisy of these supposed women is revealed in them claiming to be about equality yet wishing to have censored and silenced anything that counters or challenges their logically flawed, foundationless arguments. The best rebuttal they can offer is to accuse authorships and readership of what they themselves are ultimately proving to be guilty of: whiny, fragile, puerile little minds, in which the only thing more fragile is their tiny, easily perturbed egos.

There is a great deal of truth in this book and men as a whole have a lot to be resentful if they want. But that is not the purpose of this book; rather it is to expose the many unfair practices in gender-based politics. Some women, and it is some, seem to genuinely belief that equality can be only obtained through forced legislation.

The author cites that more women than men are in college and university today. This is in fact a sad truth. But what is remarkable is that there are so many government sponsored programs pumping millions to get women into the math and sciences.

A tour of the bulletin boards in just about any major US college math or science department reveals a host of women's only research program. There is no such equivalent for men, and what is more insulting is that every other program open to men is accompanied by a generic "an equal opportunity program" logo.

Despite what is closing in on three decades of such policies, amazingly very few women still enter math or science. The women that do are freaks in comparison to the rest of their female peers. This is the same case for the men in math and science programs. Most, regardless of gender, do not have the drive, desire, and, yes, talent to seek and achieve such highly demanding degrees.

Men naturally out number women, particularly in the upper divisional courses. Most women go into English, or biology with an eye on premed. At graduations listen carefully to the degrees that young women are earning. Overwhelming it is still English, dance and theatre, and then the soft so-called "sciences," such as anthropology or psychology. Then comes usually biology. Few go into engineering, computer science, or (gulp) something really demanding like physics.

And the women that do go into these higher demanding fields, while perhaps intimidating men that are not in the science, are very attractive to men in similar fields. There is nothing more sexy than having a partner that not only is interesting in what you do and you understands it-but actually is excited by it as you are. And God forbid she might be attractive. Beauty and brains-now that is very very sexy indeed.

Part of why there is so much gender tension today is that there is no real equality. There never has been and never shall be. Somehow equal opportunity got confused with equal ability. The latter is a nice notion, worthy of a Hallmark sentiment, but is mythical at best and an outright, malicious lie at worst. Men, being the naturally more competitive sex, quickly learn about hierarchy and where they stand in relationship to other talents. Men, real men at lest, like being challenged and having in that process their excellence tested and perfected. As ego bashing as being secondary to someone else might be, men have able experience and enough of an ego to survive it and come back to proverbially fight another day.

In contrast women, who have been told they are just as capable as all men and can do anything they want, cannot reconcile when they come in second, third, or a hell of a lot lower in the totem pole. Clearly, it is not their fault. No. It must be some male conspiracy, however subtle, which is keeping them back. Patriarchy. Sexism. Or just plain close mindedness is what is to blame. It's just unfair that there is more men, who by their own accord seek position in science. No, there must be something to stop this. Government must give up millions to get women into science. It is also not fair that a GRE subject score of 800 is expected of a woman to get into a particular program. So, a score of 700, which most likely keep a male candidate out, would now almost guarantee a woman admission-contingent that her grades are more than decent. Yes, the male conspiracy against women is everywhere.

It is these kinds of social injustices that the author is addressing. Maleness is not a crime-nor the reason why women as a whole are not the wonder women they were told they'd become when they were little girls. It is time that women fully grow up and a more realistic expectation of capability be accepted. Equality exists nowhere and no two individuals are ever the same or equal-male or female. Stop blaming men already and grow up.

There is a new men's movement growing, one in which card-carrying membership is not required as with feminism. There is a similar like mindedness and opinion in men today than ever before and a growing resentment. Sooner or later the decades old agenda some women have had against men will be redressed. How is another question...

54 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars War against men....., May 24, 2004

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This review is from: The War Against Men (Paperback)

I find this book to make several valid points about the abuses suffered by some men. As a woman,I had to read the book carefully , and keep an open mind, in order to give the author a fair chance to make his points. I do not agree with everything this book discusses ( I rarely agree with 100% of anything) but I do find it brings some very valid points out into glaring sunlight! It is my hope that the author will follow this book up and specifically hone in on the terrible abuses of men in the child custody/support/visitation areas. These horrendous abuses are well known in the general public and have been for years, but nobody ever takes real steps to correct the injustice. I am pleased someone is standing up for what is right, at the risk of being called a "women hater" , and making millions of voices heard through his one. Thanks Dr. Hise !

58 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Much Needed Book., June 22, 2005

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This review is from: The War Against Men (Paperback)

The battle between the sexes has ceased being a battle and has quickly turned into a rout. With women the recipients of state sponsored advantages such as affirmative action, preferential treatment in the courts, and a public educational system uniquely sensitive to the needs of girls, men are like frogs in an aquarium where water is added incrementally at ever-increasing temperatures. The frogs only realize the danger just as they begin to boil to death. This is exact warning that Dr. Richard Hise gives us in his 2004 book, The War Against Men.

Its full title includes the secondary, Why Women are Winning and What Men Must Do If America is to Survive, and this is the approach the author takes within. He first outlines the problems of today and then gives suggestions as to what we should do about them. Dr. Hise is a professor of marketing at Texas A&M's Mays Business School. This would not be a natural subject for a business professor to address, yet he wrote the book for highly passionate reasons.

This is very much a work of scholarship. Dr. Hise has read just about everything he could get his hands on regarding radical feminism and the decline of men. The farther he got into his research, the more surprised and dismayed he became. He was shocked as to the extent in which contemporary society is biased against men. The clear message here is that war is being waged against us, and if we continue to stand down we will become serfs within our own country.

He leaves no stone, or troglodyte in the case of radical feminists, untipped in the pursuit of the truth. Most of The War on Men highlights the exact nature of our dhimitude in the United States. From the start he stresses that men and women are not the same, yet the desire of our social engineers is to feminize men and masculinize women. They have been most successful thus far. Dr. Hise surveys the available evidence and paints us a Guernica: women are now more sexually aggressive than ever before, in many cases they consciously attempt to look like men, they choose traditionally male professions, and copy male hobbies and interests. The androgenizing of women reduces male sexual desire as we inherently are attracted to the feminine. What is the overall effect of this process? The camaraderie and complementariness of the sexes is eliminated which is a major factor in our society's decline.

Most frightening of all is what's happening in the courts where men are forced to pay for children they did not father, and thrown in jail should they not be able to come up with the amount of monthly funds arbitrarily determined by a judge. The case of Dr. Griffin is recounted where he was falsely accused of sodomizing a female patient after he refused to testify on her behalf in a suit she filed against her landlord. The judge barred the doctor from mentioning her past request of him, and also from mentioning her history of instigating frivolous lawsuits. He got 3-and-a-half-years before being acquitted on appeal.