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Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care | 
| Author: Kathleen Parker
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 80763
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1
ISBN: 1400065798
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8742
EAN: 9781400065790
ASIN: 1400065798
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
Tell a woman we need to save the males and she’ll give you the name of her shrink. But cultural provocateur Kathleen Parker, who was raised by her father and who mothered a pack of boys, makes a humorous case for rescuing the allegedly stronger sex from trends that portend man’s cultural demise.
Save the Males is a shrewd, amusing, and sure-to-be-controversial look at how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. Kathleen Parker argues that the feminist movement veered off course from it’s original aim of helping women achieve equality and ended up making enemies of men. With piercing wit, this nationally syndicated columnist shows us how the pendulum has swung from the reasonable middle to a place where men have been ridiculed in the public square and the importance of fatherhood has been diminished–all to the detriment of women, who ultimately suffer most.
The real losers, should we continue on our present course, are not just grown men and women but our children. Young people involuntarily drafted into the squabbles of their parents’ generation and raised in a climate of sexual hostility–also known as the “hookup culture”–may be fluent in porn, but their vocabulary is painfully limited when it comes to relationships.
While Parker gleefully skewers the silly side of the human experiment–like men in dresses and sperm shopping–she offers sobering statistics on the impact of the anti-male culture on the institution of the family and on relationships.
Exploring our burgeoning “slut culture” and the vividly narcissistic prevalence of vagina worship, Save the Males softens no edges. Parker tackles some of the more taboo subjects in today’s sexual politics and culture wars with perceptive analysis and a stinging sense of humor that will have America talking–and chuckling–about saving the males.
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 The Pulisher's Weekly Review Proves The Author's Point November 17, 2008
Rich P. Ravarino (Salt Lake City, UT United States)
How liberal does the media have to be before people start protesting. The femin-eastas that have propagated these lies against men, have fallen into a trap that will, in the end, leave them sadly, emotionally bankrupt, old, wrinkled, lonely and more than likely childless.
It's the ultimate goal of the Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood extreme left! It's the goal of the New World Order!
Why go the route of Hitler, killing millions, if you can get women to stop concentrating on their reproductive role in society. Instead, let's get them concentrating on their orgasm and the power of their vaginas!!! Vaginas of the world unite!
Down with men!!! Yeah. . .
Very interesting and very disturbing October 15, 2008
Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, Illinois, USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this thought-provoking book, author and syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker sets out to make the case that the American culture has become increasingly hostile towards men. The attack on men, launched by radical feminists, has only grown throughout the years, and the affects of it are growing alarming. Who suffers from this culture-wide hostility, men? Certainly, but so do women and children. It's time to think about where the hostility is taking us, it's time to save the males!
Overall, I found this to be a very interesting, and very disturbing, book. The societal hostility towards men has been a very obvious phenomenon, but what are much less obvious are the many of the effects that this has produced. Ms. Parker's analysis of the pornification of the country is quite informative, and indeed frightening.
So, if you want to understand where America is going, and what is driving us there, then you really should get this book. I think that anyone concerned about our national trajectory will find learn much from it.
 Trite ephemera October 14, 2008
Red Rivere (Home on the Range)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Trite observations in a skimpy book that reads like the usual third-rate newspaper columns. Why do people waste their money on ephemera from medicore thinkers like Parker, when it's merely the equivalent of junk food for the brain? This book has only one serious purpose, it seems to me: making Kathleeen a quick buck.
Everyone should read this book October 12, 2008
L. Lamb (Charleston)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Of the dozens of books I will read this year, Kathleen Parker's Save the Males is the one I will remember. It's both that good and that important. You should read this book if you are a man, know a man -- or, I suspose, thinking of becoming one. You should read this book if you are a mother with sons or a female elementary school teacher or elementary school administrator. You should read this book if you have not aware of what is happening to men in this country -- for the same reason that a white Southerner in the 1960s needed to read Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. This book will awaken your sensibilities. Too often a book with such an emotional argument can turn into a polemic. But Parker does not allow this happen. She's a wonderful writer with a sharp sense of humor, which she uses to cut through our denial and not bludgeon those who think differently. Her wit makes the book enjoyable, her research gives the book its gravitas, and her writing makes the book too important to ignore. Everyone should buy and read this book.
 nothing new September 30, 2008
M. Thompson
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Nothing wrong with the premise -- but too "cutesy" and "aren't I brilliant" to be designated true scholarship. Lots of repetition of the same ideas phrased differently. This has become a trend. Ideas befitting an article are now expanded to make a book. The reader would get more out of a good Jane Austen novel.
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