A Novelist Wakes Up

	posted by Matt on 08:43 AM September 18th, 2005
	Neil Steyskal writes "If you read fiction and have been frustrated by the way feminist stereotypes dominate novels these days, get Robert K. Tannenbaum's new novel, Fury. In the past Tannenbaum wrote several stories about abused women, but someone seems to have educated him about the other side of the story. This new novel revolves around false charges of rape."

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Have you actually read the book? (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 04:17 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#1) From what I get from Amazon, it's business as usual. Tannenbaum takes a well-known case (the Central Park Jogger), changes a few things, then sells it people who love to read about NYC. His protagonist is FIGHTING the claim of four men wrongfully imprisoned 12 years for a rape. Okay, he tries to balance this by throwing us males a sop—a falsely accused college professor—but that's all it is, a sop. If you have actually read the book, prove me wrong. I'd love to find that the book actually explores the depth of the false accusation epidemic. So how I don't think so.

Patriarchy - Fact or Fiction ! (Score:1) by Gang-banged on 08:27 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#2) (User #1714 Info) Save for 7 yrs, Charles Dickens was born two-hundred yrs ago, and is acclaimed as one of the worlds greatest social commentators. Upon his marriage, he was led a dogs life, and, his works are littered with Strong Women ! Great Expectations virtually opens with young Pip being on the wrong end of a whipping handed out by his sister to both him and her Blacksmith husband. At the close of Oliver Twist, Mr Bumble is in danger of being sent to prison because his wife had purloined the locket of Olivers mother, and he was told that the Law believed that husbands know and are responsible for their wifes actions. Whereupon Mr Bumble proclaims, "If that is what the Law believes, then the Law is a Bachelor." Methinks the feminists are writting History to suit their propoganda. The world was far different than they maintain.

Re:Patriarchy - Fact or Fiction ! (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 10:52 PM September 18th, 2005 EST (#3) I noticed the same thing in reading Dickens. Men were catching hell, and women, as likely as not, were the folks giving them hell. I seriously doubt Mr. Tannenbaum is as socially astute an observer as Dickens.

Re:Patriarchy - Fact or Fiction ! (Score:1) by Uberganger on 07:48 AM September 19th, 2005 EST (#4) I was reading Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture Of Dorian Grey' a few weeks ago. In Chapter 3, Dorian and Lord Henry are discussing a friend of theirs who's about to marry an American woman (poor chap!). During this discussion, Lord Henry states that everyone knows America is a 'Paradise for Women'. The book was first published in 1891.

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