Digital Book-Burning by Radical Feminists
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It's interesting to watch the digital book-burning engaged in by petulant leftists who can't abide a truly intelligent woman like Kate O'Beirne (as opposed to the NOW/NARAL hags who keep regurgitating '60s nonsense about the "slavery of marriage and motherhood") towing anything but the radical feminist party line.

Maybe Rush Limbaush was correct in referring to them as "Feminazis".
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Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing's Content Guidelines explicitly list "offensive content" as unacceptable for publication in this venue. And it should be self-evident from the title alone that this "book" qualifies as such. Thankfully, given Amazon's policy and their reporting system which I've just taken advantage of (probably not the first to do it though), I don't expect this to waste the site's bandwidth any more. Bye bye, "T.C. Writer"!
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The bad reviews of this book are written by feminist pig vomit and emasculated men. Fact is this book as controversial as it is has established it's respect among scholars who are observers of the current state of affairs between the sexes.. Whereas in "Sex-ploytation" author Mat Fitzgerald points out some things in a way that are humorous, and sometimes over the top, nonetheless a book such as this serves as a wake up call. For a good 35 years now men have been walking around in a world filled with politically correct fantasies about women and dating. Good decent men need to read this if only to pull them out of the Matrix of feminist lies and to free them from such disinformation. Like other similar literature it should be noted that a book such as this is aimed primarily at contemporary Anglo-Saxon culture: United States, Canada and Great Britain where feminism has truly trashed women. Fitzgerald's introduction is a short and brilliant surmise of the evolution of the feminist movement; as he states "Feminism didn't free the ordinary woman, it simply gave franchise to her greed". This is very sad because this is where women are the ones being duped. They are being duped by all the moronic articles, talks shows, and general society endorsed man bashing. They are going to learn the hard way that feminism and self entitlement is not delivering what it promised. Believe me this will happen over time, and it will be an intense period for them. We already see in the United States that the number of marriages over the past 5 years have been consistently dropping and it is no mystery as to why. An entire generation of the female gender is now destined to grow old alone with a vibrator and a cat and they will wonder why they were left on the shelf, why Prince Charming did not come to sweep them off their feet. Despite all the "you go girl" fembot caterwauling, this is a hate campaign against men that women are loosing. And the fact remains that men still have the ability to grow old alone more so than women. If there is a criticism I have of "Sex-ploytation" is that the author could have had elaborated a bit more on the common tale of the *jerk* getting the woman, and the nice guy being left behind. The fact that American women prefer the bad-boy type is no joke. A dirt bag with a criminal record has a better chance to be with a chyck than the class valedictorian. Decent men have the same effect on contemporary women as daylight has on Dracula. We all know this. It would have been nice if Fitzgerald examined this further to bring to the realization of how twisted womens' choices in men have become over the past fifty years. But despite this "Sex-ploytation" is a book desperately needed today. Truth IS truth; it exists despite wishful thinking.
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If you think you know what a feminist is, you will likely question your understanding after you read much of Roxane Gay's 2014 book of individually-published essays called Bad Feminist. She's a first generation child of well-off Haitian American immigrants who boldly speaks for being a woman first, a real (but not 'essential') feminist second. As she tells it, she's only able to express her feminism and humanity by considering herself as a bad feminist.

Gay's the kind of feminist I admire and relate to best. She admits she's full of contradictions, saying one thing and doing the other, and enjoys men and feminine things. While she may not be the mythical  idea of a feminist, she's totally committed to a woman's fight for equality and against our rape culture.

I don't find her a bad feminist. I don't know what a good feminist might look like or say. It seems silly to me that a feminist is judged and judges herself. Yet it's a very engaging book. It provoked thought for a while, slowing my progress through the several hundred pages and tempting me to read some passages twice. I daresay it's not a book a militant, man-hating feminist would ever write, but it is one that a compassionate, easy-going woman like Gay would. Like I would from an observant white woman's perspective.

Gay absolutely idolizes books as her best friend and counselor. Much of her book comprises her thoughts, positive and negative, on lots of books and some movies she usually loves, but has many disappointments with them. Growing up as a minority, she still went crazy for the white, privileged life  of Sweet Valley and has recently in her thirties laughed over Fifty Shades of Grey. Hmm.

Many essays build on each other, such as when she calls out male celebrities who joke about raping women and why this angers her so much, why it's personal. She helps us to really understand where she's coming from as well as her nuanced opinions on what's supposed to be entertaining.

I don't watch that many black films, but I've seen The Help and 12 Years A Slave. Most of her opinions were of media I hadn't seen, but they certainly resonated with me.

Bad Feminist inspires me to be a real feminist! To me she's a person not limited by gender identity, who may express herself as feminine, masculine, or both. A person who transcends caricatures of feminists by being just who she is and envisions who she may become. A person who will only feel free, with inalienable rights, when the female body is no longer legislatured, controlled somehow by congressmen who use anti-abortion stances to distract the public from other, chronic issues.

It's a heartfelt, compelling voice that I am glad I could listen to. Gay is a  high school teacher, I think, who has lived and worked in Nebraska. Being from that state I naturally appreciate her humor and plain speaking, but you'll be fine. Enjoy it like spending time with a chatty, concerned best friend.
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by the same author, with the far right alt conservative views once saw on back their religious views an in this climate could not open cover, Amazon needs a warning in this climate on authors who are so far alt right conservatives which is not a tolerable climate make for costly burning material or emer. ttp for the outhouse
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This book was written a little over 10 years ago by a female lawyer who could easily have realized the feminists' dream career and life, but chose the real happiness of raising her own children and living in peace and harmony with her law-professor husband.  The author exposes the ugly roots of feminism and its inroads into our society. For example, one commonly hears today of women who routinely go to work, leaving others to feed their babies with milk they have pumped.  Graglia points out that a poor substitute bottle feeding breast milk is for sitting in a rocking chair and nursing one's own baby: "But contemporary feminism, like totalitarian collectivism, champions as 'progressive' a return  to the communal, impersonal care of a wet nurse era. And feminists warn mothers that in order to avoid the attachment to their babies that encourages women to sacrifice careers for children, mothers must not assume any more child-rearing responsibilities than their husbands do. These feminist teachings seem a reversal of the civilizing process with a loss in the humaneness of which that process has made us more capable.
  "Jennifer Roback Morse has wisely asked, 'When we harden our hearts to place a six week old baby into the care of strangers, who will moderate us?' Some mothers cannot so harden their hearts. I would have felt like the wire monkey mother in Harlow's famous experiment, if I had pumped out breast milk at my office for another to feed my baby. What can possibly moderate a society that encourages its mothers so to harden their hearts and denigrates those who refuse to do so? The 'grief, the listlessness, the obvious and heart-rending despair' of the infant monkeys deprived of maternal care in Harlow's experiment evoked this reaction: 'Thank God we only have to do it once to prove the point." The success of contemporary feminism in hardening women's hearts, however, indicates that the monkeys suffered in vain" (p. 185, footnotes omitted).

Graglia states the fallacies in the feminist view of normal marriage--their devaluation of sex as a personal, individual act of commitment between one man and one woman, their denial of the link between procreation and sex and their glorification of sterile sex, in which men use women as they would use other men (p. 347). I was amazed to read in her book that Norman Mailer was aware of this disparity and wrote in "The Prisoner of Sex" of homosexual sex: "the result can be no more than a transaction--pleasurable, even all-encompassing, but a transaction--when no hint remains of the awe that a life in these circumstances can be conceived" (p. 347; p. 172,173 in Mailer).

She also describes how no-fault divorce laws fit the feminist agenda, as easy divorce destabilizes marriages. And she reveals how the feminist insistence that women's worth is determined by their ability to compete with and mimic male behavior in the marketplace is harmful to individuals, families, and society.

Men and women who see through the feminist propaganda and myths will find much to support their choices and to help them contribute to a rejection of feminist cant. Having come to marriage and childbearing in the 1970s, I often thought of the hollowness of the feminist slogan "Sisterhood is powerful."  No,  love is powerful;  love  is stronger than death and hell--to paraphrase the Song of Songs--not the whining, bullying, hate-filled, life- destroying bonds of "sisterhood."

Young women who have doubts about the feminist take on life would find this book very enlightening. I remember too well the misery and aggressiveness of feminists. Like Graglia, I'm glad after 40 years of marriage to one man that I didn't take that road.
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My News Resolution is to never pay this amount for a digital copy...greedy publishers and authors. Be ashamed in an economy where people want to read, but can' t afford these over the top prices.  Especially if the book is not your cup tea.  Publishers and authors We get it.  do you teach your kids that you fleece people for digital copies. Seriously
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eBooks have killed off the clich&eacute;: judging a book by its cover. Most Kindle books don't even show the cover when you first open one, it goes right to the beginning of the first page. With The Clothing of Books Jhumpa Jahiri has brought an awareness to this lost art form. She makes a strong argument about why cover still matters. If you want to buy a real book, is there any other reason than buying it for the art of its cover? People still buy art. Without it, the book becomes naked, Jahiri observes. She almost evokes eroticism of books donned in copertinaItalian for cover.  While Jahiri doesnt show any of the jackets she speaks of, references made can be googled to see. She falls short of completely criticizing eBooks, and for good reasons. This book costs 266% more as an actual book than its Kindle counterpart, and the weight of books, naked or otherwise, when moving is the true awakening.
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[...]

(go to the above link for the whole review of my reviewers but here's how it starts):

First off, on twitter, someone named Naomi Klein called my book "Gross". I looked her up on wikipedia. Turns out we have a lot in common. She wrote some books (see below picture). She also "spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls." So did I! And she has a lot more twitter followers than me.

I emailed her and asked her if she had actually read the book. She wrote back and was honest. "No," she said, "but the jacket copy is gross". Fine. I like that honesty. A lot of people judge books by their covers and then trash it to their 100,000 followers on twitter. At least she's honest about it. I'm not being bitter. I really do appreciate her honesty in her response. I would've ignored me. ...

[I then proceed to review my Amazon reviewers in the above link].
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How can a committed "environmentalist" not produce a digital (e.g. Kindle) PRINT version)?

Furthermore, how can they allow all the dead-tree versions (yes, I know the publisher blah, blah, but the AUTHOR has the POWER to NOT release a book to those publishers who will publish in a non-environmentally-conscious manner)?

Pedants reading this: there is NO Kindle PRINT version: I do NOT consider audio as digital as I know how to flaming-well READ (i.e. I don't need it read to me, get it?).
I'll remove this review when there's a digital PRINT version available.

Pedants need NOT reply as I will NOT waste my precious time on YOU! The Kindle store on this book is pushing the AUDIO (i.e. NOT digital print) version of this book; got it?????
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This book is hilarious. If you like the Reductress website or you're a woman who enjoy's the onion, this book is for you. This is fun to keep on a coffee table and flip through - a great gift for feminist friends.
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This book is by the same Steve Moxon who, in 2004, wrote the book "The Great Immigration Scandal" - a work which exposed serious problems within England's Home Office, and eventually led to the resignation of the Immigration Minister.

This new book, covering a subject completely unrelated to the previous works's topic, draws on biology and evolutionary psychology theory, as well as recent findings of scientific research in other areas, to destroy the myth promulgated by radical feminists, of women as "oppressed" and men as their "oppressors". Along the way, the reader is given a "popular science" (yet fairly heavy) account of how the male DH (dominance hierarchy) begins with the male gamete's competition to fertilize the female egg, through the extension of this paradigm of male competition to the behaviour of adult males. Also, the "place" of the female, while lying outside the strict DH, is expained largely by the female's fundamental desire to find and mate with men of perceived high status (which Moxon apparently considers to include ecomomic, political, and social standing, in addition to the male's physical attractiveness).

Being a men's rights activist, what I really like about the book is its devastating critique of "radical" or "ideological" feminism (what Moxon calls "extreme" feminism). Destruction of feminist myths is infused throughout the book, as the other major topic besides the aforementioned, and includes, among a wide range of phenomena, topics such as why men are in such poor health compared to women, feminist lies concerning domestic violence and rape, and workplace gender issues. Each of these topics is tied in with the biological, evolutionary, and other aspects of differences between men and women

Overall, I find this book to be an excellent companion to Warren Farrell's "The Myth of Male Power", which describes the "what", whereas Moxon purports to give the corresponding "why". In fact these two books, plus Nathanson and Young's "Legalizing Misandry", will give the sophisticated reader a firm grasp of men's and gender issues, the "why" of our current situation regarding gender relations, and the extent to which ideological feminists have caused much harm to society.

Edit 11/18/09: If I had to review this book again, I would give it only 4 stars. The reason is that Moxon devotes an entire chapter to how the political Left has screwed everything up, with the supposed applicability to feminism being that the Left is at fault for historically 'causing' the problem. But regardless of the validity of that opinion, this kind of thing has little or no place in the book, and in fact it encourages divisiveness in the men's movement along political lines, and scares off potential men's rights allies who lean left. Of course this is not a "men's rights book" as such, but effective men's and father's movements are necessary components to bring about the end of radical feminism and its evils. Besides, Moxon should have at least realized that inclusion of a political rant would alienate a lot of people who might otherwise be attracted to the parts of the book which are objectively based.
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A step by step guide on teaching women how to use false sexual allegations against men? Yep. The books exist
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What is the future of the printed book? To answer that question, veteran New York City schoolteacher Kirschenbaum looks far into the past and all the way around the world.

Frustrated by her students' bored reaction to conventionally printed books, with their blocky fonts and black-and-white text, Kirschenbaum put ordinary personal computer technology to work in her classroom. Adding color alone accomplished wonders.

When she researched the history of illuminated texts, Kirschenbaum discovered that the way books have looked since the advent of movable type - since Gutenberg - isn't at all how they looked during all the centuries that came before. In the Hebrew and Arab worlds, in China, in South and Central America as well as in Europe, ancient texts glowed with color. Illustration - lavish illustration - was the rule, not the exception; and each manuscript's "font" reflected its author or copier's unique hand. All this we gave up when the Gutenberg press made mass production of books possible. Until now, we've had no reasonable alternative because books printed in color cost too much. But then came personal computers and their software. Desktop publishing programs, and color printers. We no longer need to settle for the sameness of black text, unillustrated, on a white page; and that's fortunate, because the generation of students in our high schools now does not, Kirschenbaum tells us, relate well to anything that doesn't grab and hold their visual interest.

As a former high school teacher myself (although in business, not literature), I found this book fascinating. While I don't agree with everything the author has to say - for example, I do not think that eBooks have "flopped"; I think they are only starting to demonstrate their potential - she offers her readers a vision of publishing's future that just may come true. I'm particularly intrigued by the quotations she offers from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, who dreamed of being able to reach his readers directly and of controlling the appearance of his finished books. Self-publishing's stigma, an outcome of Gutenberg's technological revolution, seems likely to vanish as another revolution transforms the way books are created and the paths by which they reach their readers.

Once again we can look into the past, and see the future. Only a teacher could have written a book like this one! I recommend it highly to anyone who loves books, and cares about their future.

One final note: I offered to share this book with my mother, a now retired remedial reading specialist. She was unable to read it, although she wanted very much to do so, because the inks used in printing it had a strong aroma that made her ill. A shame, because I was looking forward to hearing her thoughts.
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This is a big book packed with tons of big ideas, and yet still manages to be easy to read and fast paced. The author does a great job of keeping an overall feminist tone to the book while not placing an ounce of undue blame on men and consistently challenges and evaluates feminist ideas.

The author frequently tosses around shocking and thought provoking ideas throughout the text, and it was a very fun read. My only real issue with this book is that there was little to no writing on the positives of being a wife, which gave the book a bit of a negative tone, but overall, I would definitely recommend this book.
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On Being a Jewish Feminist is an essential work for those readers in demand of an overall view of the challenges encountered by Jewish Feminism and the answers provided to those by it.
In an understandable way for those who are non-Jewish, the reader is supplied with the targets of Jewish Feminism: the roles, images,assumptions to be questioned or re-created;the forgotten aspects of Jewish women's history to be remembered and studied; the myths to be redefined. What is more, On Being a Jewish Feminist is not only a mere statement of objectives or a dispute of presupositions:  suggestions for change are furnished.  At the same time, the dilemma of being Jewish and a Feminist, of heretically developing an identity, is expounded and explored.
An imperative work for inquiring minds who long for answers.
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I give the book 5 stars. My reasons: The authors express views that are sound, important and infrequently available.
Color of Violence, the Incite! Anthology
Edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

Color of Violence, the Incite! Anthology introduces the reader to an array of topics of particular concern for women of color. The public policies described have an especially damaging impact on African American families and other women of color. But when large segments of our population are marginalized and disadvantaged, all of us are negatively affected, regardless of the color of our skin. Each chapter offers a new author's perspective on the lives of women of different nationalities, genders, identities, economic levels and situations. For readers who are white, heterosexual, English speaking and able bodied, the book offers windows into the lives of women of color that rarely are accessible elsewhere, including, for instance, those who are Arab-American, poor, queer, sex workers, immigrants or unjustly entangled in the justice system.
Very recently, the mass incarceration of black men held for decades in isolation cells has caught the attention of mainstream media, largely as a result of the prisoners' hunger strikes in protest of their appalling conditions. In contrast, little attention has been paid to the dramatic rise in imprisonment of women of color during several recent decades or the mistreatment they routinely endure, which has remained very much in the shadows. Color of Violence provides a long overdue platform for women of color to speak out about sexual assault and other crimes committed against them by local police, INS officers, U.S. prison guards and Mexican-border control guards.
Another form of violence described in the book is sometimes labeled as "the cradle to prison pipeline." It begins when judges, court social workers and psychiatrists unjustly separate women from their children. A chapter on adoption informs readers that black children comprise less than 20 percent of the nation's children, but more than 35 percent of the foster care population. In Chicago, for example, almost all of the children in foster care are black and in New York black children in 2004 were "ten times as likely as white children to be in state protective custody." In some situations even the staff at shelters for abused women contribute to those decisions. Color of Violence urges all feminists to acknowledge that "the racial disparities in adoption are powerful reasons to radically transform the child welfare system, so that it generously and noncoercively supports families."
Though for several decades I have tracked racism and have worked on behalf of women abused by intimate partners, I learned much from reading this book. In thirty chapters a wide range of authors do more than expose the numerous injustices endured by women of color. They call for changes in government policy. White readers such as myself may feel uncomfortable in learning about the many ways cruelty and abuse of women of color are institutionalized by government policies. But new knowledge about large numbers of our population can inspire us to work toward creating humane policies that makes all of us safer. Reading this book has certainly had that effect on me.