Purchase
How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable
Broadside Books
May 2016
On Sale: April 26, 2016
256 pages
ISBN: 0062351869
EAN: 9780062351869
Kindle: B00TE923LW
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Political
Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine
Mystique, relations between men and women in America have
never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated
than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking,
funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender
discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular
and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist
pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended
pitfalls of that power trade have made women (and men!)
miserable. In a covetous quest to attain the power that men had, women
were advised to work like men, talk like men, party like
men, and have sex like men. There’s just one problem: women
aren’t men. Instead of feeling happy with their newfound
freedoms, females today are tied up in knots, trying to
strike a balance between their natural, feminine and
traditional desires and what modern society dictates—and
demands—through the commandments of feminism. Revealing the mass confusion this has caused among both
sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic
progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness
they were told they'd gain from their new opportunities. The
pressure both to have it all and to put forth the perfectly
post-worthy, filtered life for social media and society at
large has left women feeling twisted. Meanwhile, in their
rightful quest for equality, women have promoted themselves
at the expense of their male counterparts, leaving both
genders frayed and frustrated. In this candid and humorous romp through the American
cultural landscape, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect in
the office - where women earned it - made them stop
demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love
lives. The impact of this power trade has been felt in every
way, from sex to salaries, to dating and marriage, to
fertility and female friendships, to the personal details
they share with each other. As a result, we've lost the
traditional virtues and values that we all want, regardless
of our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect,
discretion, and above all commitment. With scathing wit -- and insights born of personal
experience -- Tantaros explores how women have taken guys
off the hook in dating (much to their own detriment) and
exposes how we’ve become a nation averse to intimacy and
preoccupied with porn, one that has traded kindness for
control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy.
Sorry romance. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over
the telephone have been supplanted by the "belfie." All
this indicates a culture that's devolving, not evolving.
And it’s only getting worse. Tied Up in Knots is a no-holds-barred gut check for the
sexes and a wake-up call for a society that has decayed --
faster than anyone thought possible. It’s time to remember
what we all really want out of work, love and life. Only
then can we finally begin untying those knots.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy