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Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care
Random House
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 1400065798
EAN: 9781400065790
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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