The myth of the monstrous male, and other feminist fables [Hardcover]

John Gordon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 253 pages
• Publisher: PLayboy Press; 1st edition (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872237583
• ISBN-13: 978-0872237582
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,862,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A RATHER EMOTIONALLY-PITCHED 1980s ATTACK AGAINST FEMINISM, September 28, 2011

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Steven H. Propp (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The myth of the monstrous male, and other feminist fables (Hardcover)

At the time this 1982 book was published (by Playboy Press, it should be noted), John Gordon was "a professor of English at Connecticut College in New London. His articles have appeared in Playboy, Inquiry, Ramparts, and other magazines."

He wrote in the Introduction, "So this book is about feminism and sex. About feminism and money, feminism and politics, feminism and anything else, it has nothing particular to say... What (feminists) haven't faced is the potentially ruinous contradiction between those positions and the implications of their continuing, and at the moment escalating, campaign against male lust. Yet that, clearly, is the issue of the hour, on which the success of the whole agenda may well turn. It's time we faced that one, too."

Here are some additional quotations from the book:

"...in common with many of the males of this country, I am indeed a somewhat disgruntled male, and getting more so all the time... for the last ten years or so feminism has in fact been quite possibly the most prolific single fountainhead of fashionably malignant and fraudulent drivel on the national scene." (Pg. xiii)
"This book's main thesis is that such a return (to 'purity crusade' rhetoric) ... is certain to prove fatal to any coherent feminist vision of sexual equality now in currency." (Pg. 10)
"There are certainly, for instance, scads of bright feminist women---so why are almost all feminist books so desperately dumb?" (Pg. 31)
"Putting it less grandly, (Kathleen Barry's book) Female Sexual Slavery is willfully, triumphantly---and typically---stupid. Intellectually, it brandishes its stump in the reader's face." (Pg. 108)
"A Sunday School teacher of mine used to tell my class, almost thirty years ago, that lust was brief; now she's dead, but my lust lives on." (Pg. 176)
"First and foremost, the public enemy at the top of the feminist list was male lust... it is safe to say that no other group since the Medieval Cathars has been so devoted to the proposition that humanity is redeemable precisely to the extent that it can refrain from sex, or at least refrain from enjoying it." (Pg. 195)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must For ANY MAN, July 13, 2007

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Jay Edwards (Berkeley) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The myth of the monstrous male, and other feminist fables (Hardcover)

This is one of the best and most enjoyable critiques of feminism out there. It came out in 1982. As I recall Gordon was a liberal English professor at a NE university who actually listened to what feminists were saying and doing and actually read the anti-male filth they wrote. His obvious conclusion was that feminism was not only garbage , it was malignant , hate-filled garbage. In this book, he just quotes what feminist have said and reviews what they have done or set out to do, and thats enough for any rational and moral person to reject feminism.
As I said it came out in 1982 and thus its devastating critique was early, as most men did not want to take the time to refute each nonsensical sentence that comprises feminism. So this malignant drivel went unanswered-- hence the last 35+ of years of institutionalized and cultural misandry in the USA and other countries.
Its very well written, as Gordon is an impecabble and funny writer. You will not get any personal rants-- just well founded outrage at what feminists say about men. SInce Gordon is a true "liberal"-- who values free speech and true "equality" and who fights against hate movements-- his critique is all the more devastating.

This book is a must for anyone who wants to know what feminism is all about.
SInce it is so cheap, I am going to get several copies and send them to friends and I would suggest anyone buy multiple copies. JHE