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"Boyfriend Training Kit" Now in Bookstores
posted by Scott on Friday February 01, @06:52AM
from the news dept.
News SunCat writes "Bookstores now carry a boyfriend training kit. It is a brown paper pouch, with "stars" to rate your boyfriend's performance. Warren Farrell fans should note that the package is labled DISPOSABLE. File this under "misandry does not exist." :-(" The package supposedly contains "all you need to knock your boyfriend into shape...With such a comprehensive guide, you'll never have to follow his rules again."

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amazon (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday February 01, @09:23AM EST (#1)
i'd suggest that anyone with amazon accounts place a "friendly" review of this here product. wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.
Re:amazon (Score:1)
by ronn on Friday February 01, @09:57AM EST (#2)
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So Men are now pets. Sit up, Roll over, Good Dog.
Want a cookie. Is this a sick joke am i dreaming.

Ronn Good Dog.
Query? (Score:1)
by jaxom on Friday February 01, @10:08AM EST (#3)
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I'm thinking that a good lawyer would make the following case:

Boyfriend is injured (males are more likely than females to be abused in dating relationships)
Girlfriend has this book/kit

Therefore, injury was not only intentional, but hate motivated and therefore a greater crime. Under Canadian law the minimum sentance would move from a $500 fine to two years in prison.

I wonder if women KNOW that?

Greg
the Volksgaren Project: Intelligent Abuse Recovery, http://clix.to/support/, jaxom@amtelecom.net, 519-773-9644
Re:Query? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday February 01, @10:23AM EST (#4)
well, they probably know that they can get off scot-free. that, i'm guessing, takes precident.
Re:Query? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday February 01, @10:36AM EST (#5)
Since they're women, that law doesn't affect them.

you forgot?
Re:Query? (Score:1)
by aurora on Friday February 01, @11:31AM EST (#6)
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You guys just don't understand the law. You can only NOT hate protected classes. Just as you can only be racist towared blacks, jews, natives americans....

The laws are against the dreaded patricarchy because we are in total control of the government. Of course how those laws got passed is kinda confusing.....
Re:Query? (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday February 01, @12:33PM EST (#7)
Border's has this item in their catalogue but they do not normally keep it in inventory, according to the young man I just spoke with at the store in Princeton NJ. They DO have the accompanying book. I had limit my rage somewhere. This fellow I spoke with was happy to order it for me, and when I told him that I regarded it as good news that they don't have it, he indicated that he was somewhat insulted by the title. I invited him to visit us at MANN next time he's surfing the web.

Frank H
The Rules (Score:1)
by Lorianne on Friday February 01, @04:56PM EST (#8)
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This reminds me of the book which was all the rage a few years back The Rules. It was basically a manual on how to manipulate, deceive, connive etc men into marriage (and get a nice hefty ring in the process).

The thing that I found so funny about this book was that it was very popular among Conservative, non-feminist type women. Yet "feminists" are the usual suspects who are hauled out to prove women have a low regard for men.

In my experience, most non-feminist women I've encountered have a very low opinion of men. They tend to think of them as sources of wealth and/or as "pets" who they can manipulate to do their bidding.

One thing that has always baffled me is that these type of women, the so-called "traditional values" women seem very popular among men. These are the women who are most highly sought after in college and the ones the better educated, more well-off men pursue. They buy expensive gifts and rings which they can sometimes barely afford even at their relatively high economic level. (Seems whatever economic level the man is he is expected to buy a ring at least 2-3 times more than what he can realistically afford). In college I would hear engaged women evaluating a man's worth as a "catch" based on the ring he was convinced (coerced is more like it) to buy.

These are the same women who judge a man's worth by his possesions, you know, his car, his watch, his clothes, his stock portfolio.

Maybe someone here can enlighten me why these types of women seem so sought after by the higher paid, higher educated men? I've always wondered about this.
Re:The Rules (Score:1)
by Claire4Liberty on Friday February 01, @05:04PM EST (#9)
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I remember reading an awful letter in Abby or Ann Landers awhile back. It was written by a mother who said she would not approve of her precious little princess marrying any man who did not prove his ability to provide for Princess by buying a ring worth at least [some ridiculously high dollar amount].

Ohhhhhh, it would be true justice if Princess grew up to be a bench-pressing, pierced, tatooed, one-hair-away-from-transsexual diesel dyke.
Re:The Rules (Score:1)
by LadyRivka (abrouty@wells.edu) on Friday February 01, @09:12PM EST (#10)
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In my experience, most non-feminist women I've encountered have a very low opinion of men. They tend to think of them as sources of wealth and/or as "pets" who they can manipulate to do their bidding.

Not me! My BF is not only a great sensitive guy, but he's one of my best friends. I am NEVER manipulative with him. My opinion is if you feel the urge to buy the "kit", you're too immature to be dealing with the other sex in the first place. Men aren't pigs or dogs or anything of the sort. They're PEOPLE, dammit!

"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
Re:The Rules (Score:1)
by SunCat on Saturday February 16, @04:13PM EST (#11)
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Not sure they are most sought after or by which men, Lorianne. I see that that in The Hearts of Men : American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment author Barbara Ehrenreich makes this point about the Religious Right. But in The Myth of the Monstrous Male and Other Feminist Fables by John S. Gordon makes this point about the Religious Right and Gender Feminists. How could Ehrenreich miss this common element of both? Ehrenreich has an amazing blindness sometimes.
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