A book all young men should read: "The Manipulated Man (1971)"

[conspirator]

No this is not a crappy "how to trick the opposite sex" book.
This book goes beyond gender war. It shakes the power structure of society, no wonder the author received death threats.
Have you ever wonder what is the purpose of marriage?
Is it worth getting into debt, just so you can have a house, a wife and a kid before some age established by "society", because you are afraid of being called a looser?

The answer to these question may be in this book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Vilar

[The Straight Story]

1. This belongs in the men's forum. Oh wait..... (nt)

[conspirator]

2. I was with my timer on. 5 minutes to get an unrec.

My question to the people who unrecked is: would you like to send a death threath to the author as well?

[flvegan]

3. Oh, this is going to be epic.

:popcorn:

[westerebus]

12. LOL

:beer:

[omega minimo]

4. Sounds interesting. Tell us more.

[Enrique]

5. she needn't worry about the death threats

even the most "militant" feminist rarely resorts to violence.

Women that fight for their rights, however, have always been in real danger.

[undeterred]

6. Don't call me a "looser"

[SpiralHawk]

7. Yah, and don't call me a 'loosarian' neither

eom

[undeterred]

8. I know loosism when I see it, you loosist.

:hi:

[DURHAM D]

9. rightwing low intellectual drivel... nt

[tonysam]

10. The book was a piece of crap when it came out

There were a flurry of anti-feminist books in the early '70s, including one from neocon Midge Decter, The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Vilar's book was along the same lines. A bunch of hooey.

[Sapphocrat]

11. Hilarious question.

Getting married didn't get me a house, a kid... or a man.

This Esther Vilar stuff -- "contrary to common feminist and women's rights rhetoric, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating men" -- is a bunch of misogynistic bullshit parroted by graduates of the Maggie Gallagher/Phyllis Schlafly School of Self-Loathing.

And anyone who believes it hasn't the first clue about the patriarchal society we live in, which maintains itself through control of human sexuality. You control sexual function, you control society. Women know it. Gays know it. Churches know it.

[treestar]

13. That would apply to women too

That sounds like it has little to do with gender. it's about the middle class lifestyle.

[BlueIris]

14. Oh, no. Those poor oppressed men. I cry for them everyday, what with their rights

never having been in questioned in this society. It keeps me up nights, truly.

[Cleita]

15. "1971"huh?

The publication date should be a warning. However, I can understand why guys would like to go back to an era when women were still considered attractive consumer goods to be discarded when they got worn out.

[tonysam]

16. It's still in print, in its third edition

Obviously after the hype of the book and the author in the early 1970s, it was quickly forgotten by the public. In fact, until this thread, I hadn't thought about the book in over 35 years, much less knew it was still in print.

[niyad]

17. you have GOT to be kidding--this patriarchal bull puckey is still around? and being recommended?

let's see--why should young men read this crap? patriarchy works for them-- and we still live in a patriarchal society.

are you going to recommend bly next?

[Liquorice]

18. Yes, this book is on the reading list for the

He-Man Woman Haters Book Club. Each week this club meets and discusses the fact that men are really slaves to evil women and are being oppressed (unknowingly) by women's vaginas. All young men should definitely be forewarned about this serious problem.