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Have men really been engaged in a centuries old conspiracy to exploit and oppress women? Have the essential differences between men and women really been erased? Have men now become unnecessary? Are they good for anything at all?In Is There Anything Good About Men? Roy Baumeister offers provocative answers to these and many other uestions about the current state of manhood in America Baumeister argues that relations between men and women are now and have always been cooperative than antagonistic that men and women are different in basic ways and that successful cultures The title of Florida State psychologist Roy Baumeister’s book speaks to how silly much of the rhetoric surrounding the gender debate has become Dare I suggest that both sexes are good? We don’t need our men to be like women nor our women to be like men Both sexes need each other for who they are Someone had to write this book and I’m glad that Baumeister had the audacity and tenure needed to do so To put it simply this is hands down the best book on gender differences I’ve ever readRead the rest of my review of Is There Anything Good About Men? here
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Is There Anything Good about Men Capitalize on these differences to outperform rival cultures Amongst our ancestors as with many other species only the alpha males were able to reproduce leading them to take risks and to exhibit aggressive and protective behaviors than women whose evolutionary strategies reuired a different set of behaviors Whereas women favor and excel at one to one intimate relationships men compete with one another and build larger organizations and social networks from which culture grows But cultures in turn exploit men by insisting that their role is to achieve and produce to pr I read this book because I thought the title was intriguing I thought it could have been a great book about how men are socialized to be exploited or that American or Western Culture produces men that are expendable and exploitable so that it can flourish I thought the book could have been great Instead the book is a 300 page argument with an imaginary feminist It was lazy The author even said so in the back of the book He said that if he was writing this book to be taken seriously he would have had research to back up his claims Essentially what the author does is take common misconceptions about gender differences and points out the biases in the arguments the statistical discrepancies that either are used to show men as oppressors or women as champions He will then make his conclusions based on those corrected discrepancies Probably the weakest part of the book is that he spends so much time defeating the imaginary feminist that he doesn't actually back up his conclusions or really dig deep into the issues at hand I do not accept that women earn less on average simply because they don't desire to work as hard as men I could accept the premise if there was a deeper exploration of the issue Why are women less motivated? Why are men ? It isn't biological like the author would have you believe My biggest fear is that people who do not have much background into gender issues would read this book and be convinced that the author has made good points The only people I would recommend this book to social scientists who want to practice tearing apart arguments or playing devils advocate with hard core feminists