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    Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
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    Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
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    Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters
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    Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

    Written by Helen Smith, PhD

    Narrated by Susan Boyce

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    About this audiobook

    American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're 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. 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 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. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateNov 6, 2017
    ISBN9781520083001
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    Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters

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    • 2/5
      Painting a very dark picture, very one sided perspective of the problem totally ignoring the big picture, very similar to what feminists do. Lady seems like have real beef with women?

      I don't know if its "beachiness" in narrator voice or author's style of telling, but listening for two three chapters this book it really annoys the hell out of me. And i used to be in men right movement so i know all this ahead of time.

      Another goes on a quest to figure out why men don't want to marry and make conclusion that its because men are oppressed, however she fails to see any other reasons behind this, like people choose career over family and family is not so popular now days anyway. I am sure if someone get in relationship they would get married eventually, problem is relationships don't last that long now day's because many men and women are have "love addiction" (medical condition).

      Another issue is that author is looking at the problem from national standpoint down and men seem like statistics for her rather than people, problem to author could be summarized as "our country cannot be great because men don't marry and don't go to collage". I really hate books that focus on this illusive "us" together, society essentially is is bunch of individuals living in one geographical area.

      Men and women happiness comes from living our own life and putting our own interest first before illusive society. What needs to happen is education of your close circle of men, what this book does it try to put men on fight for all men rights, who needs that its more stress to oppose feminism than to pretend to follow the rules of the current system while still doing your own thing. Me personally cares less about fixing the current system, making it fair for all men.
    • 4/5
      It really interesting book that dares to say what so many are afraid to say. That men can be oppressed too. This isn’t an attack on women. However it does point out some advantages women have over men today, regarding family court, paternity rights, and more. If you can keep an open mind, I think this book will enlighten you.
    • 5/5
      A painfully real picture of reality, as well as given constructive suggestions to all in helping the men in their lives.
    • 5/5
      Every man in this society should read this book. I will be buying it for my adult son.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is a grim but very detailed description of the effects of feminism and it's political agendas in the United States. Pray to God it doesn't become that bad here in Australia

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Good men go through so much these days I hope they stand up for themselves.
    • 3/5
      A very interesting book. It really is about the author's perception that things have moved against the American male or specifically the American white male. I tend to believe that the American world is still controlled by white men so no matter what Helen Smith says or the anecdotal support she brings in, it will take a lot of things to occur before we can say that women have it better over men. That being said I did find her section on male paternity responsibility for children that prove to not have been fathered by them a point that I agree with her about. Why should a man who was tricked into believing that he had fathered a child that later proved to not be his be forced to pay child support until the child is 18. If the book does nothing but get this changed then it is fine, but the idea that women and their issues have moved men into a no college, no marriage state is to basically given too much credit to the movement and not enough to the man's choice to not get married or go to college. She seems to categorize women as manipulators who trick men into marriage and having children. A definite generalization. This is a good book to read because it gives a sense about how the man/woman connection is currently viewed by many within our society. I overall think the book is biased against women but overall it was a good read and I for one will get on the author's website and engage her in some lively debate.

      3 people found this helpful