Book: "Does Feminism Discriminate against Men?: A Debate"

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2007-11-09 02:47

Dear Editor,

This may be the first time there has been a very positive review from a mainstream national newspaper (Canada's National Post) praising a male-positive perspective over a feminist perspective. It is a review of Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?: A Debate between Warren Farrell (with Steven Svoboda) and James P. Sterba. You can read it here.

More important, "Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men?" is the first time one of the two main academic presses (Oxford U Press and Harvard U Press) has attempted to introduce a male-positive perspective to feminist gender studies professors in the U.S. and Canada. If we each contact a local university to suggest this book, its adoption will encourage other academic presses to introduce more books incorporating male-positive perspectives.

How badly is this needed in universities? Look at this email I received yesterday...

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From: ...
Subject: RE: your book prohibited from..........
Date: November 6, 2007 1:15:55PM PST
To: warren@warrenfarrell.com

Dear Dr. Farrell,

I have been prohibited from quoting your book in A University of Massachusetts classroom. The class is titled, Women in Psychology. The class actually teaches feminism. The class was told that your book is a compilation of lies, and your theories do not deserve to be addressed. Furthermore, I may not cite your book in any research papers.

I wrote you to ask your advice on how to handle this situation. You have undoubtedly come across this before. I would hope you could share a few ideas on how I could handle myself in such a hostile environment.

Thank you
{name}
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Please feel free to distribute this so that the universities have an alternative to men-as-oppressors feminism.

Warren Farrell, Ph.D.
www.warrenfarrell.com

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Maybe someone should set up a table on college campuses with a sign that says, "Can You Guess Which of These Books Are Banned, Or Absent, From College Campuses?"

...then just have a display of your favorite men's issues books.

I donated a new copy of Tom James's book Domestic Violence: The Twelve Things You Aren't Supposed to Know to Santa Monica College. It never made it to the shelf. They did have a copy of Dr. Farrell's The Myth of Male Power, but that was about the only one with a perspective other than the gender feminists'.

Dr. Farrell's new book would be a good one to have on college and university campuses, but I don't think the gender feminists will allow it for the simple reason that the biggest part of their paradigm would be strongly discredited. Anyone reading Dr. Farrell's book would be hard pressed to take many of the claims of women's studies seriously. Imagine what would happen if everyone started questioning women's studies.

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Submitted by MR on Fri, 2007-11-09 05:09

There is an excellent audio stream of Warren Farrell discussing his new book on Dennis Prager’s radio program at –

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/show-129-book-does-feminism-discriminate-against-men-a-debate-prager-interviews-author-audio-mp3/3901526/

Topics include :
•distortions in our understanding of domestic violence
•discrimination in men’s health funding (“because men cause their own earlier mortality”)
•higher rates of male suicide (10:1)
•the boys’ crisis in American education (the feminist solution is that boys need to be socialized to be more like girls…)
•the Divorce Industry
•the importance of dads in child-rearing vs. the legal tradition of awarding primary custody to mothers

The entire interview is about thirty minutes, and well worth a listen.

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Submitted by Roy on Fri, 2007-11-09 15:57

Every so often I check to see if the Phoenix Public Library has various MRA books. Usually they have no copies in stock. If an MRA book (say Farrell) is in stock, they only have one book.

Then I check various feminist books -- the Phoenix Public Library will generally have 10-20 copies available in their system for just about every feminist book I looked for.

Try this experiment with your local library. A lot of city libraries have their catalogs on the web...

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Submitted by canaryguy on Fri, 2007-11-09 17:26