Customer Reviews

The War Against Men

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

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...

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 !

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.

What everyone knew, but too afraid to say anything because it isn't politically correct for a boy to protest against boy-bashing.

I was most upset with how present-day feminist take blind aim at boys as young as six years old, charging them with sexual harassment.

The world's gone crazy! In Williamsville, N.Y. a 6-year-old boy kissed a girl on the cheek, after she asked him to, and was charged with sexual harassment. The boy was more upset for being banned from "coloring time" with his friends, and not being allowed to participate in his ice cream party for his good attendance.

In Canton, Ohio, a 6-year-old boy with ADHD had to go to the doctor on the day of his class field trip, so his mom put him in the tub so he wouldn't see the school bus. When he heard the bus and ran to the window to tell them to wait, not only was the little boy suspended for sexual harassment, he was told by school officials to sign a paper stating that he understood the charges against him.

In El Paso, Texas, a boy stuck his tongue out at a girl during a play-ground dispute and was charged.

The sad thing is that these boys don't understand the severity of what has happened. A California boy was told by a friend that he wasn't allowed to attend his birthday party because of a similar incident. When these boys apply for college, they'll find a "sexual harassment charge" on their permanent school record.

Title IX's unfortunate side effect has created this atmosphere that it's okay to target and label boys as young as 6 years old as sexual predators by adults who are lacking in experience, knowledge, or plain common sense.

Title IX was written to ensure equal rights for both men and women, but is primarily used to eliminate athletic opportunity for college men. The law never seemed to apply whenever gender-inequities favored women, and this precedent has made it to the elementary school level where girls are just as, if not more, physically expressive as boys. But nationwide, only boys have been charged for sexual harassment for innocent hugs or kisses.

By the way things are going, if a kindergartner falls on a girl in the schoolyard, he may be charged with anything from sexual harassment to attempted rape.

It's totally crazy.

Hise has written a book mainly appealing to Christian conservatives and he does a fair amount of scripture quoting from the "inerrant word of God", as he puts it, especially in regard to women being submissive to patriarchal authority. ("The Lord thy God hath commanded it, woman!") I suppose his targeted readership will take this seriously, but not the majority of Americans, which a merely cultural Christians, superficially acquainted with Biblical teachings and having a lot of contradictory beliefs mixed up with them. It takes more than Bible quoting to prove your points to the unconvinced and unconverted and therefore I don`t expect his book to reach the wider population, especially men who live life on their own terms. The book is disappointing as far as not being a book that will get men's issues more into the spotlight because of its strong biases. I also get the impression that Hise wants to get women back into the kitchen for the most part, the "cook, clean, kids" women of yesteryear who I find to be rather boring, but certainly safer bets for stable marriages than all those fascinating liberated flappers who make good dates, but often terrible wives who aren`t interested in motherhood.

But if you can get past the crusty conservatism and the Bible quoting, he actually has some valid things to say about the war against men. It is hard to find the perfect pundit, while I found Hise to be too conservative at times, I often found the author Warren Farrell, who covers the similar territory, too liberal with all his talk of developing a gender transition movement and promoting androgyny. Although I think Farrell is more of an expert since he has made gender issues his life's work.

Hise had had some friends who were victims of "she-devil incorporated", as I put it, and he began pondering a question I bet would be "Could it be that women are running a vast conspiracy against men?" He found out that his friend's misfortunes were more than isolated incidences.

Probably the most dangerous weapon against men is the legal machinery of the state which can mow any man down at any time with a woman's false accusations. The legal system is biased towards the females and an accused male may find that certain evidence will not be allowed in which will help defend his case. He is generally seen as guilty already and not given enough means to prove he is innocent. Behind every women you're dealing with is this legal machinery of the state which can invade your personal relationships at any time.

Hise has a problematic chapter in which he describes the increasing crime and social decay in America over the decades and then loosely attributes this to the rising power of women. I think he would need to have a more direct connection than that, so the argument was weak. Indeed, some parts of the book veer off into the conservative political agenda and get off the topic of his thesis; you can either call this method comprehensive or diffuse.

Commenting on the work force, Hise says that women's gains are men's losses as far as who gets the jobs, the promotions, and money to start up businesses. Women also can get help through affirmative action programs, quotas, and a plethora of women`s organizations, supporting the hiring and promoting of women even if they are not as qualified as men for diversity's sake. When women enter into institutions they often start making them pro-female and anti-male. A diverse workforce is also a divided workforce so watch what you say and do, so you won't get sued. Don't get too chummy or relaxed. Hise mentions the work place affairs that happen when men and women work together and how this can break up your marriage. He generally advises to keep wives out of the workforce, if at all possible. Communists and other left leaning societies are often eager to get women in the workforce to replace the roles of men while encouraging them to abandon their roles as women and let the state, the schools, and society raise the kids to properly indoctrinate the rising generation.

According to Hise, women have gone too far in the military. Being only about as half as strong as men, they have entered into positions in the military where combat will be involved. He has concerns and shows some evidence that they are not qualified for these positions and may abandon their duties when duty calls. Also, physical training for women is not as strenuous as it is for men because they are not strong enough to be combat soldiers. Even in this most masculine of institutions, the radical feminists have pushed their reality-denying agenda and women follow along. Hise wonders how strong the military will be once it's time to stop playing soldier.

The lowering of standards to supposedly help women doesn't just happen in the military. Females score lower on math and science on standardized tests so the radical feminists have just suggested getting rid of these hard problems or placing more value on language skills so that there will be equality of results.

According to Hise, women also spend a lot of energy defeating the will of men at voting booth with their "liberal" anti-male agenda. Politicians come along who will pander to women, who vote more than men. They also often want to pass gun-control laws, even though it's been proven that there is less crime when people are allowed to defend themselves with guns. Some legislation has been passed over the years that discriminates against men.

Hise suggests that men get their own organizations such a national organization for men to counteract all the biased propaganda that comes out women's organizations such as N.O.W. and to start regaining the power that they have been losing over the decades to women. To him, society just runs better with men in charge and women mainly doing the important job of raising good, well-adjusted children.

I was a little disappointed in Hies's book. To his credit he does a pretty good job of summarizing many of the ways that modern western society is badly discriminatory against men and has been getting much worse over the past few decades. For example, among his many criticisms of women's rights for abortions he points out that the child who's future is being decides also has a father, and fathers have no rights and less consideration in today's debate over "a woman's right to choose." Hies effectively summarizes discrimination against men at work, in government, in schools, in law, in the military, in health care, in families, in the media and in just about every part of society today. His summaries often take the immediately apparent or widely published discrimination and fail to look a little deeper. For example he explains how Title IX enforcement has badly hurt college athletics, but fails to point out that Title IX is about education, not athletics, and if adequately enforced, would prohibit pervasive discrimination against men throughout the rest of college campuses. Hise criticizes Janet Reno for the DOJ strong arm tactics in the Elian Gonzoles case, but fails to notice that Reno's tactics were supporting a father's rights to HIS son. So in this report, Hise sloppily supports the war against fathers. Hise criticizes Christian denominations for allowing themselves to be taken over by women, and points out that many Christian denominations which have been taken over by women are rapidly losing members. But although he reports that many corporations are promoting women of questionable qualifications to their upper management, he fails to mention that many of those same major corporations with female management are losing money and market share. As a highly knowledgeable reader I notice the omissions and inaccuracies, but for someone who is coming into awareness these omissions are minor compared to the wide ranging information in the book.

I was most disappointed in the Christian bias of the book. Hise seems to assume that "men" is synonymous with "Christian," despite his own data which shows that 80% of attendance and the large majority of administration of Christian churches is now female. Men have never been the majority of attendees in Christian religion even when men once dominated it's administration. Now it's pretty obvious from Hise's own data that men have left the Christian churches in huge numbers. If he's trying to play to a Christian audience in the US, that means playing to an 80% female audience, according to his data. What about us men? What about the majority of us men, who now are not Christian? The War Against MEN is being fought against us too. We find most Christian churches as female dominated as schools and government, as Hise himself reports. I would have been far more favorably impressed with Hise's book if he leaned a little less on equating men with Christian.

One part of the book that is very good, and pretty unique, are the chapters on personal and political counter attack strategies. While his suggested strategies are a little milquetoast to the more radical men's rights activists, they do give many men some real ways to begin to reclaim our manhood and work toward equal justice under law. It's good advice, and it's a place to start. The book is worth while for those chapters alone. Get a pre-nup before considering marriage, avoid the NY Times and LA Times for accurate news, start voting carefully in local elections. All of these and more are things men can do right now to begin the reclaiming of our lives and families.

This book counters the lies and propaganda foisted upon us by feminist dominated media. Prepare to be outraged. It's about time. To Hise I say: Bravo!

I commend Dr. Hise for being one of the very few Christians that hasn't bought into the prevalent "woman good, man bad" zeitgeist or been blinded by a misguided "chivalry" (put forth in reality to gain the favor of women). He is thus able to take an objective look at things, about how men are demonized and discriminated against in our society. There is a veritable gold mine of statistics and references. There admittedly could have been a bit more space devoted to divorce and child custody issues, and how extensive and intrusive "child support" enforcement has become (which is in reality an extortion/shakedown racket).

However, the problem is even worse than Dr. Hise has envisioned. Dr. Hise is dreaming if he really imagines solutions are going to be implemented on the political level anytime soon. Most politicians, even especially male politicians, are totally beholden to the feminists. And, Dr. Hise is dreaming if he thinks the solution to marriage/divorce is a pre-nuptial agreement, which courts routinely ignore. Sad to say, the only solution is going to lie in a wholesale revolt by men against a society totally hostile to them. For instance, if there is any chance of a divorce husbands should stash their assets in offshore bank accounts and their wives should be told in no uncertain terms that if they decide they are "no longer fulfilled" the men expect full custody of the children; if not, they will refuse to support the family breakup and buy a one-way ticket to a jurisdiction which doesn't honor U.S. family courts. Men should refuse to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, especially when they return home to a divorcing wife, a family court system unfavorable to them, and, if a reservist called to active duty, child support arrearages due to the differenec in pay between their civilian jobs and active duty pay. Sad to say, this is what it's going to take. Men will be played for chumps as long as they willingly go along with it. Maybe Dr. Hise will explore these issues in a follow-up book.

This book makes a great read, providing scientific confirmation of facts which all of average intelligence already knew intuitively. Forget about Susan Faludi's war on women. If anything, the so-called war on women, especially when Faludi wrote her book in the 80s, has been no more than a scuffle as men have largely failed to take action in the war against them and their sons. Men are facing an all-out assault, not just in the US, as documented here, but in the many Western countries which ultimately take their lead from the US. Countries exposed to Hollywood films, most of the world now I guess, are being systematically brainwashed by the feminist agenda. The time has come when 'Be a man' does not refer to some pathetic chivalrous nonsense you were conditioned with as a boy to help make it easier to sacrifice your life on battlefield, coal mine, or construction site. 'Be a man' now means to stand up for your gender, we've sat back for 40 years and look at the disaster we've allowed unopposed feminism to wreak on our planet. Dr Hise hates feminism and not women. Those who've grown up with just a 50% perspective on reality, and are not used to clear talking and no beating around the bush, may mistake his tone. Well, get used to it. The time has come for clear, direct no-nonsense truths, for the sake of not just the US, but the world. If or when the US ultimately loses its status in the world, Americans, and all lovers of a free world, will know who to thank. Those who undermined their country in its hour of need for their own selfish, egotistical motives.

In the end, the world will move back to a more traditional, conservative order as the disaster of feminism becomes more and more apparent. Feminists, thank God, are a group not known for procreating, apparently because the only way they can get sperm in them is by paying for it. In the country I live in, the number of Germans having babies has dropped dramatically thanks ultimately to Feminism. The ones reproducing are the Turkish and Arabian immigrants, and those from Eastern Europe and Russia, all patriarchal societies which are largely producing Germany's population of the future, along with the German working class. Not many young feminists being produced there. When the day finally comes when gender feminism is thankfully no more than a bad memory, we will thus be able to ascribe its downfall to the application of its own, unenlightened policies. So Dr Hise, thank you once again for your insightful work, I am not a Christian myself and consider myself a liberal, so may not give the few scriptures you quote the weight you do, but that did not affect my appreciation for a fantastic piece of research. It's time we forget about such petty labels so that people of both sexes and across the political spectrum can concentrate on the common enemy at hand.

What I found astounding about this book is that it was written by a Christian. Christian authors are known for their ridiculously and foolishly positive attitudes about marraige, and Dr. Hise is to be commended for breaking ranks and warning men about the dangers of women and marraige. He doesn't come across as brutally as Rev. Shannon in "The Predatory Female", but his message is valuable nonetheless. Hopefully, because of his religious background, he will reach a wider audience than some of the other authors such as Shannon and Fitzgerald, who are hardly Bible-thumping believers.

To my knowledge, (being a former fundy Christian), there are no books available other than "The War Against Men" that warn Christian MEN of the pitfalls inherent in marraige. This gives you some idea of how the Matriarchy controls even the church, the last defense against feminism. Too late Christian men are waking up to what has happened to their religion- AND their women- and Dr. Hise tries to sound the warning.

Dr. Hise rightly observes that there is a trend developing whereby men are simply abandoning any and all relationships with women. Period. I understand this line of reasoning, and have walked away from the mess myself.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that he allowed for divorce for the man who is married to a woman that is simply beyond hope. (Which may very well be most of them). Finally, a Christian who understands that there are women, even "religious women", who are impossible to live with. The good doctor must have spent some time reading Proverbs which is chock-full of warnings to men about how it's preferable to live in the wilderness than with an angry woman.

The only downside is that he occasionally advocates tithing as some sort of cure-all, but if you can get past these temporary lapses in judgement, the book is a great addition to the the many books that are available for men to combat the incessant brainwashing of the Matriarchy.