![The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire by [Deida, David]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uaApZ9oxL._SY346_.jpg)
The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida, falls into a genre of male "self help" and awareness books that are as male centric and stunted in their outlook as the gyno centric female consciousness and sisterhood books they are meant to counter. The author is not without insights into female psychology and temperament. But the tone and approach of the book panders to a sensibility that seeks to understand women as either highly intelligent pets to be trained, loved and enjoyed or, on the other hand, sees women as obstacle courses and tests of male skills, self mastery and connoisseurship. One might think that Mr. Deida had also written books on the spiritual challenges of horse breeding or the appreciation of beauty while firing a gun.
He has in fact also written many other books in this vein, notably "The Enlightened Sex Manual: Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover", all of which seek to fuse a sense of spiritual striving, self-testing and affirmation with traditional male instincts towards skills and mastery.
Mr. Deida's book calls to mind what a teen age boy said once to me, while lamenting the latest problems he was having with his girlfriend: "Women are like Klingons in Star Trek. They look like us, but they aren't'..."
David Deida's books, and the mini industry he has spawned writing them, are in service to this eternal boy outlook, to men who will always look at women as slightly bizarre foreign beings who must be understood as a subject, complete with the categories, hierarchies, requisite skills and knowledge sets that many men associate with mastery of a given subject. The "Deida Man" reads up on women and acting toward women and with women the same way that others might read up on cigars, horses, stamps, baseball history, arcane details of civil war uniforms, better jogging techniques, relating to your dog, dressing well, building the perfect vacation home, how to sail around the world, and wood working.
In short, the "Deida Man" seeks to learn everything about women needed to achieve a "checked out, tested and certified to operate" license to have actual relationships with the opposite sex. Of course, if he was so crass as to say it that way it would seem, well, kind of lame. But by building a church, a tabernacle, an alter of profound knowledge, a monastery of self to have the best quality experience with the woman possible -- lucky her -- it all seems sort of, well, virtuous, like rock climbing or doing your own chroming.
- File Size: 1429 KB
- Print Length: 207 pages
- Publication Date: October 1, 2004
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004A8ZWM4
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- Word Wise: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#100,690 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
- #154 in Sexuality (Kindle Store)
- #245 in Spiritual Self-Help (Kindle Store)
- #306 in Love & Romance (Kindle Store)
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