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Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters by [Smith, Helen]

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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going “on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this “man-child” phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?

As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

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File Size: 508 KB
Print Length: 176 pages
Publisher: Encounter Books (June 4, 2013)
Publication Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594036764
ISBN-13: 978-1594036767
ASIN: B00APDFXKO
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March 17, 2017

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

There isn't any organized official strike. That would be an improvement over what's happened. Men and boys have been shamed into inaction, tied in emotional knots, and denied any reason to live.

Since the 1970's males have been under constant media, academic, legal, mental, and emotional assaults. Their vary nature has been used against them, while it's also been demonized, ridiculed, and denied.

Equality has been used as a tool for denying males any space of their own, any form of male bonding, and any self respect. Equality has also been used to make heterosexuality seem to be nothing but harassment and rape. In other words, males have been subjected to intense discrimination in the name of equality.

Chivalry has simultaneously been labelled misogynism, while it's absence is used to show men don't care about women. Men have been treated with outright suspicion while being samaritans. Men are often treated worse for kindness than cruelty. In other words, Feminists have denied everything good and decent about Males.

Marriage, that was once a bond between man and woman, has been reduce to virtual slavery - for men. Child support and alimony have been distorted to the point where divorced men are legally conscripted into involuntary service - that's slavery in every way except name.

All that combined with Feminist Double Standards, Misandric Attitudes, and Double Speak has Males lost and running for cover.

To sum up: This book is a Powerful Warning to males who are naive enough to think they're safe in a Feminist Age. It's a priceless tool for Females who want to help Abused Males. It's also a Powerful warning to Misandrists who, in their ignorance or arrogance, don't realize how far passed too far Males have been pushed.

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the painful truth - can you take it?

July 12, 2016

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I found myself nodding and nodding and nodding again throughout this book.

We are in an interesting era of history for male-female relations. Men like myself in our mid-thirties are at a tough crossroads. More than ever, we are unmarried and trying to figure out if we WANT to be. Our fathers predominantly married in their young twenties and are still married. Isn't that what we were supposed to do? Is something wrong with us? The pressure from "societal norms" and from females to get married is extraordinarily intense. We get badgered for "not wanting to grow up" and "not wanting to be responsible", and being suspected of homosexuality.

But that really isn't it at all. Having a wife and children sounds like a real joy, with the right woman and right societal structure.

But women have changed since our fathers' era. And the laws ("structure") have become screechingly anti-male. We hear non-stop about "the war on women" and "rape culture" and non-equal pay scales and so forth. What did I do wrong? I have never raped anyone and never treated female coworkers poorly. Yet even the women we try to date vehemently believe this claptrap. Why would I want to enter a legally binding arrangement with someone who "loves" me but hates men as a whole?

Oh, and that law. Divorce law. It doesn't matter what state you live in this country. Entering a marriage at this point is like playing at any casino: the house wins. As a male you may in the very best case have a home where the woman spends all your money and you are confined to the cellar/attic. You have a greater than 50% chance of being divorced, for "no fault" reason whatsoever, and have over half your assets scarfed away, along with several years of your future earnings for the children/alimony. What kind of thinking man will spin the wheel on those odds? And yet, many of my male friends do continue to get married, but it's a rare day that they do it because they want to; by and large, they get bullied and harassed by their girlfriends and families to do so.

It's a sad state of affairs. Men want children, so some roll the dice and a majority get burned for life. It doesn't have to be like this. But despite the author's call to action, it's not going to happen. It's too hard to vocally fight back and get screamed down for being a sexist, women hating, misogynistic, whatever. The alternative? Go on strike. Drop your sword and your shield and just walk off the battlefield. And so, my male generation will either A) get bullied into marriage or B) go on strike and accept a peaceful life of hobbies, beers and stable assets. It's not just the divorced men who are doing this - it's never been married men like me with a great education, great job and a mortgage who don't want to see it all destroyed. There are no shortage of females for us to date in big cities like NYC, Chicago, Washington DC, L.A., etc...in fact, available women have never been more plentiful. But why take a risk????

I would've given it 5 stars, but darn it, this should've been a longer book and had more in depth research. It's a narrative that needs to be blared from the mountain tops. I hope to see a sequel to this book.

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Thomas E. Wictor

Terrifying and Infuriating

May 24, 2013

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Dr. Smith concisely describes how American society has become anti-male. As a result, men are opting for non-participation. A stand-out chapter is "Why Does Dad Stay in the Basement?" (pages 95-118), which posits that too many women view men as "perverts, predators, and goofballs." This chapter brings to mind the TV and radio commercials with dumb husbands being put in their place by their rude, condescending wives. Usually a callow male says or does something stupid, and then the wife sneers, "Slow down there, champ! Time to grow up and stop being a moron!" Imagine the outrage if the roles were reversed.

In 2005 Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers spoke at a conference on women and other minorities in the science and engineering workforce. Summers said that POSSIBLE explanations for the underrepresentation of women in the upper echelons of these professions MIGHT include upbringing, genetics, and time spent on child rearing. He clearly stated that he made these comments to be provocative. Listening to the presentation, MIT biologist Nancy Hopkins said, "I felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow. I was extremely upset." She wasn't the only one. A firestorm of male and female outrage engulfed Harvard for months.

Has any man out there ever felt sick when he saw a portrayal of us as perverts, predators, and goofballs? Have our hearts started pounding and our breathing become shallow? Now, just imagine if you could press a button and instantly change all those thousands of commercials from women calling their husbands idiots to men telling their wives to calm down, grow up, and stop being so stupid. Pause and think of the global hysteria. All double standards are enraging, but one of the worst is, "I am woman hear me roar, but I'm just a girl, so stop being mean to me."

Yet Dr. Smith is optimistic. Her book functions as a cogent identifier of the problem, a handbook of solutions, and an unflinching statement of principles. It's thoroughly footnoted, with an index and a selection of resources for men. Very worthwhile and a fast, thought-provoking read.

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