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Eggs are Expensive, Sperm is Cheap: 50 Politically Incorrect Thoughts for Men
The current cultural assumptions about love, sex, dating and marriage are not only absurd, but a danger to society and to individuals. We're taken the most successful institution known to man, tinkered with it, played with it, and toyed with it until it's barely functional any more. Marriage simply isn't such a great deal any more, which is why many people are turning away from it. Especially young men. And if you look at the stats on divorce and the way men are treated in the family courts, you can hardly blame them. This little book says that the problem lies with all the modern assumptions we've tagged on to marriage. Marriage is (or at least it was) the structure that took the complicated mess of who we are as men and women and created a legal and social framework that used our natural impulses and desires to create a stable society. Marriage is what keeps human cultures from devolving into chaos. As western society has gotten further and further from a reality-based perspective on the sexes, marriage has been on the rocks. Some say there's even a marriage strike. These 50 politically incorrect thoughts call young men to abandon the modern approach and look at love, marriage and sex from a different point of view. It's a call to be counter-cultural in a way the hippies couldn't have imagined. Please note: this is not a scholarly work. If you're looking for studies and footnotes, look elsewhere. This book isn't intended to prove anything. It simply offers a different perspective.
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First published May 13, 2014
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Greg Krehbiel
38 books5 followersGreg Krehbiel is a happily married father of five wonderful children. He's enjoying a successful career in professional publishing that has included lengthy gigs in editorial, product development, IT and tech development, marketing, and audio and web conferencing. He earned a bachelor's degree in Geology and studied theology as preparation for ministry -- then thought better of it. He's a home brewer (beer, wine and mead), an occasional jogger, an avid writer, and enjoys camping and fishing. He lives in Laurel, Maryland.
You can read more about Greg Krehbiel's books at the Crowhill Publishing site -- http://crowhill.net
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October 23, 2020
I have contradictory feelings about this book. ...
WHAT I LIKE: First, priceless title. The meaning behind it may not be immediately obvious, but it is explained early and is the foundation of the entire argument contained herein. Second, this book does a good job both tearing away at the circuitry that the rewiring of modern social and gender norms has created in all of us. However much a fan or a detractor of the modern understanding of gender (from the 1800s on), we're all influenced by it, and are steeped in its assumptions. What normal conservative today could account for the historical deprivation of the vote to women as not having to do with some societal devaluation of women's voices? Not many, I think. But, per Krehbiel, women's suffrage had less to do with the elevation of women from a devalued status and more to do with the shift from seeing the family to seeing the individual as the basic unit of society. He doesn't care to argue that we reverse women's suffrage, even if it were possible, but you can decide for yourself whether the dissolution of the family as the basic unit of society has been helpful or harmful--whether people living in a system that encourages them to vote for their own interests (rather than a system that encourages them to vote with the interests of a larger group for which they must take responsibility in mind) is healthier. Good luck not struggling to equivocate on that one. He hints at, rather than gives, evidence to back this understanding up, but that wasn't his purpose. The point is, we've probably never heard that kind of explanation and he wants us to consider that maybe there's another way of looking at it. Finally, the positive vision he aims at is one that should commend itself to the Christian reader: men being men (including a restoration of value for aggressiveness) and women being women, sex saved for marriage, etc.
WHERE I HAVE RESERVATIONS: The book does not proceed on a Christian basis. In fact, if feels like it makes its case on an entirely philosophically materialistic (there is no supernatural at all) and evolutionary basis. He grounds his preference for traditional values and structures in nature--because we've been conditioned for that kind of living for thousands of years, and nature can't be changed as drastically as modern society demands except perhaps after the passage of thousands more years. Thus while behind all of his aims he says nature, I yearn for him to say more: design. It fits, and is an easy fix for the Christian reader to add that too the book (which is why I am still likely to recommend it). I wondered so often throughout if the author is merely writing with the assumption that his target audience has such an atheistic and evolutionary outlook that rather than turning them off by such a perspective, he is attempting to show that even an honest evolutionary perspective could be argued to seriously jeopardize our modern experiments. Or that by winning the social capital for a conservative gender construct, other things will follow. Perhaps this is his game, or perhaps some will consider it a distinct value of this book to make that case in that way--gaining an audience a more theologically-minded book would not likely have. But in the end, I have a nagging difficulty with that approach. My thoughts were turned to this question many years ago by the film Time Changer, which raises a theological issue much more engaging than the film itself (albeit, not a bad Christian film for when it was made). Should we teach the morality of Jesus when we can't do so with the authority of Jesus? The film answers no. And while I'm not going to be dogmatic on the answer here (for instance, while I wish all minds and hearts would be changed on the issue of abortion so that it would be as unthinkable to moral people as other murders are, I would definitely desire it to be illegal *and* I would try to persuade my unbelieving neighbor that it is as morally reprehensible as other acts of murder), there are at least concerns that ought to be weighed. First, when argued without the authority of divine design and law, what ultimately makes our worldview or social designs superior to another? We evolved this way and not that way seems an infinitely weaker argument. As the film says, "Without the authority of Christ, mankind is merely left to compare ideas. A morality becomes a matter of opinion. One person says it is wrong to steal, the next person says it is not. No standard is set." Second, morality is not the goal of Christianity, nor even the best preparation for it, and they most certainly cannot save you. Again, to quote the film, "Satan is not against good morals; he is opposed to Jesus Christ. A man can have good morals his entire life, yet you and I know he will go to hell when he dies." Third, if our first effort is to make a man good, and if we succeed, how much more likely is it that he will be inclined to decline the need of a Savior? Consider Jesus' words, and his enemies, carefully before answering. Fourth, if we can make the case that God's will for man can stand apart from God and his design, are we not merely feeding the secular suspicion that God is merely a construct of men to give a more authoritative backing to particular ideas? Now even conservative morals and ideas can be explained as natural developments. With number three and four here, moralizing society without God can serve to subvert the Gospel. Finally, I thought of a book by Grant Wacker on the American Baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong, who developed his systematic theology from a robustly orthodox perspective, but later shifted. But his foundational shift came too late to work its way through his systematic, save for the introductory materials. Thus the later edition which remains in print contains a foundational worldview that could not have given rise to what follows. His son drifted into full-blown theological liberalism (who rejected the usefulness of his Systematic Theology outright), while the conservatives who valued his Systematic Theology for decades could hardly make a hero out of the man. So this book stands proudly to defend life and society as God designed and defined it, and yet has divorced it from that foundation.
So I would recommend this book to Christians for themselves and their own understanding of the world. Be prepared to do all the theological and Biblical legwork yourself. There is value here because he will say things you've probably never heard or thought about, but deserve every bit of your consideration. But second, do not plan on using it as a tool for persuading your neighbors, nor adopt his foundational rationale. If you answer that this book speaks to your neighbors the same way you do, trying to defend a Biblical worldview without reference to the authority of God or the Bible (because that might turn them off), then strongly consider reforming your ways. Both hell and this world have enough good people in it. We need citizens of heaven.
I heard about this book from Doug Wilson, and you should track down what he has written on it. I particularly point to his perspective that arguing from nature is valid on issues like this, per Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Cor 11: 8-14. The thoughts above are mine and not his and I landed a little somewhere different. Bite me. But he's a veteran public thinker and theologian, while I am not. So like I said, read him too.
WHAT I LIKE: First, priceless title. The meaning behind it may not be immediately obvious, but it is explained early and is the foundation of the entire argument contained herein. Second, this book does a good job both tearing away at the circuitry that the rewiring of modern social and gender norms has created in all of us. However much a fan or a detractor of the modern understanding of gender (from the 1800s on), we're all influenced by it, and are steeped in its assumptions. What normal conservative today could account for the historical deprivation of the vote to women as not having to do with some societal devaluation of women's voices? Not many, I think. But, per Krehbiel, women's suffrage had less to do with the elevation of women from a devalued status and more to do with the shift from seeing the family to seeing the individual as the basic unit of society. He doesn't care to argue that we reverse women's suffrage, even if it were possible, but you can decide for yourself whether the dissolution of the family as the basic unit of society has been helpful or harmful--whether people living in a system that encourages them to vote for their own interests (rather than a system that encourages them to vote with the interests of a larger group for which they must take responsibility in mind) is healthier. Good luck not struggling to equivocate on that one. He hints at, rather than gives, evidence to back this understanding up, but that wasn't his purpose. The point is, we've probably never heard that kind of explanation and he wants us to consider that maybe there's another way of looking at it. Finally, the positive vision he aims at is one that should commend itself to the Christian reader: men being men (including a restoration of value for aggressiveness) and women being women, sex saved for marriage, etc.
WHERE I HAVE RESERVATIONS: The book does not proceed on a Christian basis. In fact, if feels like it makes its case on an entirely philosophically materialistic (there is no supernatural at all) and evolutionary basis. He grounds his preference for traditional values and structures in nature--because we've been conditioned for that kind of living for thousands of years, and nature can't be changed as drastically as modern society demands except perhaps after the passage of thousands more years. Thus while behind all of his aims he says nature, I yearn for him to say more: design. It fits, and is an easy fix for the Christian reader to add that too the book (which is why I am still likely to recommend it). I wondered so often throughout if the author is merely writing with the assumption that his target audience has such an atheistic and evolutionary outlook that rather than turning them off by such a perspective, he is attempting to show that even an honest evolutionary perspective could be argued to seriously jeopardize our modern experiments. Or that by winning the social capital for a conservative gender construct, other things will follow. Perhaps this is his game, or perhaps some will consider it a distinct value of this book to make that case in that way--gaining an audience a more theologically-minded book would not likely have. But in the end, I have a nagging difficulty with that approach. My thoughts were turned to this question many years ago by the film Time Changer, which raises a theological issue much more engaging than the film itself (albeit, not a bad Christian film for when it was made). Should we teach the morality of Jesus when we can't do so with the authority of Jesus? The film answers no. And while I'm not going to be dogmatic on the answer here (for instance, while I wish all minds and hearts would be changed on the issue of abortion so that it would be as unthinkable to moral people as other murders are, I would definitely desire it to be illegal *and* I would try to persuade my unbelieving neighbor that it is as morally reprehensible as other acts of murder), there are at least concerns that ought to be weighed. First, when argued without the authority of divine design and law, what ultimately makes our worldview or social designs superior to another? We evolved this way and not that way seems an infinitely weaker argument. As the film says, "Without the authority of Christ, mankind is merely left to compare ideas. A morality becomes a matter of opinion. One person says it is wrong to steal, the next person says it is not. No standard is set." Second, morality is not the goal of Christianity, nor even the best preparation for it, and they most certainly cannot save you. Again, to quote the film, "Satan is not against good morals; he is opposed to Jesus Christ. A man can have good morals his entire life, yet you and I know he will go to hell when he dies." Third, if our first effort is to make a man good, and if we succeed, how much more likely is it that he will be inclined to decline the need of a Savior? Consider Jesus' words, and his enemies, carefully before answering. Fourth, if we can make the case that God's will for man can stand apart from God and his design, are we not merely feeding the secular suspicion that God is merely a construct of men to give a more authoritative backing to particular ideas? Now even conservative morals and ideas can be explained as natural developments. With number three and four here, moralizing society without God can serve to subvert the Gospel. Finally, I thought of a book by Grant Wacker on the American Baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong, who developed his systematic theology from a robustly orthodox perspective, but later shifted. But his foundational shift came too late to work its way through his systematic, save for the introductory materials. Thus the later edition which remains in print contains a foundational worldview that could not have given rise to what follows. His son drifted into full-blown theological liberalism (who rejected the usefulness of his Systematic Theology outright), while the conservatives who valued his Systematic Theology for decades could hardly make a hero out of the man. So this book stands proudly to defend life and society as God designed and defined it, and yet has divorced it from that foundation.
So I would recommend this book to Christians for themselves and their own understanding of the world. Be prepared to do all the theological and Biblical legwork yourself. There is value here because he will say things you've probably never heard or thought about, but deserve every bit of your consideration. But second, do not plan on using it as a tool for persuading your neighbors, nor adopt his foundational rationale. If you answer that this book speaks to your neighbors the same way you do, trying to defend a Biblical worldview without reference to the authority of God or the Bible (because that might turn them off), then strongly consider reforming your ways. Both hell and this world have enough good people in it. We need citizens of heaven.
I heard about this book from Doug Wilson, and you should track down what he has written on it. I particularly point to his perspective that arguing from nature is valid on issues like this, per Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Cor 11: 8-14. The thoughts above are mine and not his and I landed a little somewhere different. Bite me. But he's a veteran public thinker and theologian, while I am not. So like I said, read him too.
March 20, 2023
If they did half stars, I would have given 3.5. The best way to describe this book would be that someone uses their eyes and common sense to observe the world that God made and the order He created. Greg accurately analyzes and diagnoses the problems in our culture with good insights on what’s wrong and what’s needed for a cure in many cases. But he does this without acknowledging God or His design and instead attributes much to natural selection and evolutionary causes. This means Greg gets many right answers but he attribution for why it works and understanding at that level is sadly lacking.
Apart from that, a really good take on modern society and the current landscape as relates to male and female. No nonsense and a simple mantra that ties it all together: “Eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap”.
Apart from that, a really good take on modern society and the current landscape as relates to male and female. No nonsense and a simple mantra that ties it all together: “Eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap”.
July 15, 2022
My favorite Greg Krehbielism didn't make it into this book, so I share it here for your edification: Instead of a best man and a maid of honor, a marrying couple should have seconds. And during the wedding ceremony, there should be a part where the groom hands a pistol to the bride's second and says, "If I ever betray her, use this to shoot me." And of course the bride should reciprocate with the groom's second.
This was lots of fun, but I agree with Doug about the evolution nonsense.
This was lots of fun, but I agree with Doug about the evolution nonsense.
April 18, 2020
All of Krehbiel's thoughts riff off a fundamental concept found in the book's title: Eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap. That is, women have a finite number of eggs to reproduce with, and the costs of having a child--measured in time, energy and other personal restrictions--are significantly more than the costs to men. Men have the physical capacity to father literally hundreds of children, while women do not. So, cast in evolutionary terms, society has an innate desire to protect women and consider men expendable.
This makes women the de facto gatekeepers of sex and, therefore, relationships. The "economics of sex" is a fascinating study in how men and women respond differently to incentives.
Once you accept the basic premise, you realize how much it informs the way cultures have developed in a myriad of ways. Instead of being repressive and misogynistic, the so-called "traditional" moral norms that have prevailed through most of human history make perfect sense in light of this principle. And so, because "eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap," we fight wars with men and not women; we harness the raw sexual energies of men and channel what would otherwise be destructive power into a constructive life of service to a wife and kids; we unashamedly treat men and women differently because they are different.
This book was a delight to read. It is witty, clever, and absolutely unapologetic in its skewering of politically correct modern ideas about men and women, human sexuality, dating and marriage, and general social cohesion. If you recognize that men and women are genuinely different, this book provides a very readable--and very rational--discussion of the topic.
Go buy this book--it's only $2.99 on Kindle. It is eminently quotable, but here a few gold ones to whet your appetite.
This makes women the de facto gatekeepers of sex and, therefore, relationships. The "economics of sex" is a fascinating study in how men and women respond differently to incentives.
Once you accept the basic premise, you realize how much it informs the way cultures have developed in a myriad of ways. Instead of being repressive and misogynistic, the so-called "traditional" moral norms that have prevailed through most of human history make perfect sense in light of this principle. And so, because "eggs are expensive and sperm is cheap," we fight wars with men and not women; we harness the raw sexual energies of men and channel what would otherwise be destructive power into a constructive life of service to a wife and kids; we unashamedly treat men and women differently because they are different.
This book was a delight to read. It is witty, clever, and absolutely unapologetic in its skewering of politically correct modern ideas about men and women, human sexuality, dating and marriage, and general social cohesion. If you recognize that men and women are genuinely different, this book provides a very readable--and very rational--discussion of the topic.
Go buy this book--it's only $2.99 on Kindle. It is eminently quotable, but here a few gold ones to whet your appetite.
History is not a story of men oppressing women. Yes, of course some men oppressed some women. But as a general rule, the man’s part has been to sacrifice himself to protect and save women and children.
The survival of the species requires that women have a safe place to have and raise these helpless little tikes. Somebody — not the woman — has to go out into the world and tame the wilderness. How that came to be called “oppression” is one of the mysteries that sociologists will be studying for centuries. There has been enormous effort expended to minimize and disrespect the role of house wives and stay-at-home moms and to push women into careers. There’s pressure to make women feel guilty if they don’t want to be just like men. Despite all this, many women still want to be mothers and many prefer to spend time at home with the kids. Could it be that patriarchy isn’t the right explanation for this? Could it be that women feel the way they do because that’s the way they are?
A healthy society recognizes male and female differences and encourages men and women in those roles. The result of the modern silliness is that we don’t even believe in sex roles anymore, so very few people are willing to tell men how to be men and women how to be women. That’s sexist. Let me be quite clear about this. It is sexist, and that’s a very good thing, because it’s sexist in the right way — that is, it recognizes the differences between the sexes. Sexism is not a problem. Sexism is a virtue.
Some people want you to believe that everything comes down to “boys are privileged because of patriarchy.” Well, if by “patriarchy” you mean an obligation to protect and provide, then yes. Boys are “privileged” precisely because they have the corresponding obligations.
This modern delusion that men and women are interchangeable can’t be enforced consistently because it runs straight up against reality. The species didn’t develop under the microscope of a feminist legal system, but under the reality of nature
If you want the men in your society to be anything more than lazy bums, you need a system where sex is rare, and where women are choosy about the right things.
When you consider marriage from this perspective, do you think it’s reasonable to say that men were “privileged”? We’re constantly told that all these ancient laws were designed for men’s benefit. That is exactly backwards. The rules were designed to restrain men — to break them — to bend their desires to the service of women and children, and thereby to the culture. If men had designed the rules they would have come up with something where they got easy access to sex without any strenuous effort. The modern, libertine world is far more a man’s creation than the traditional world
Part of the modern delusion is to think that any exception destroys the general principle.
One of the essential stupidities of modern life is the idea that men and women are interchangeable and can start acting like one another
My brother very helpfully defines “culture” as “what a man needs to do to get laid.” I think that’s a pretty useful way to look at things.
When women set the kind of high barrier to sex that I have been recommending — that is, only inside marriage — then it’s in all women’s best interest to shame the sluts, because when the sluts lower the market value of sex it hurts every woman and every marriage. Just because humans have sex in private doesn’t mean that sex is entirely a private affair between consenting adults. That is part of the modern delusion. We have sex in private, but sex is everybody’s business. The modern approach to sex doesn’t build a culture. It doesn’t harness the energy of the young man’s sex drive to make young men into responsible, useful members of society. It also fails to maximize women’s potential as wives and mothers. It is, in short, destroying civilized society.
June 1, 2021
Direct and insightful
You may not agree with everything in the book (the author says as much), but you ought to read it just the same and give it some serious thought. It isn’t propaganda - certainly not the modern, mainstream kind. The ideas are well-reasoned, well -expressed, and will get you thinking if you don’t dismiss them out of hand.
You may not agree with everything in the book (the author says as much), but you ought to read it just the same and give it some serious thought. It isn’t propaganda - certainly not the modern, mainstream kind. The ideas are well-reasoned, well -expressed, and will get you thinking if you don’t dismiss them out of hand.
May 20, 2023
The evolutionary assumptions, and all the qualifiers (for those who hadn't bought in) were a little exhausting, but other than that the book was fantastic and worth five stars.
July 28, 2023
Uncommon common sense
July 24, 2025
Despite the rather eye-catching title, this was a great read. Really interesting to see a pagan man get so many things right. It is a triumph of natural law. Bit of a wild ride though. I can see why Doug Wilson likes it.
October 30, 2022
This book was so fantastic, filled with the truth and facts of reality of the biological differences between men and women, the natures of men and women, and how those differences effect the relationships between men and women, and how they shape society and culture.
He gives an almost fatherly advice to young men, how to properly relate to women before marriage, how to relate to your wife after, and how to relate to other women in light of respecting your wife, that she can trust in you to not hurt her. How women's cycle effects the kind of man she wants, but most of the time she wants a man whom she can respect, that is achieved by standing up to her, not being weak and placating to her emotions, but standing firm in what you know is right, and standing firm on the standing firm on the standard of God's Word. He offers young men advice on how to relate to other men and older men, it was so good.
If women do read this or get the audiobook it would be infinitely helpful hearing the truth of how men actually think and behave, it also deals with the reality of women's biological clock, the sexual marketplace, which may offend but the fact is it is biological reality and women have been so thoroughly lied to, especially that they can be like men, but our finite and vary limited fertility must be thought of, especially in light of more and more women delaying marriage, the dangers to their fertility if they are being sexually promiscuous. It would behoove young women to get a hold of this book.
It also great at dealing with the feminist lie of patriarchal oppression, by putting them in there whole historical context and biological reality, and the nature's of men and women and why many of those things were put in place.
My only qualm was he was too kind with the qualifications and his attempt to nuanced and more reasonable, but it was probably wisdom on his part, and me being too radical on my part.
He gives an almost fatherly advice to young men, how to properly relate to women before marriage, how to relate to your wife after, and how to relate to other women in light of respecting your wife, that she can trust in you to not hurt her. How women's cycle effects the kind of man she wants, but most of the time she wants a man whom she can respect, that is achieved by standing up to her, not being weak and placating to her emotions, but standing firm in what you know is right, and standing firm on the standing firm on the standard of God's Word. He offers young men advice on how to relate to other men and older men, it was so good.
If women do read this or get the audiobook it would be infinitely helpful hearing the truth of how men actually think and behave, it also deals with the reality of women's biological clock, the sexual marketplace, which may offend but the fact is it is biological reality and women have been so thoroughly lied to, especially that they can be like men, but our finite and vary limited fertility must be thought of, especially in light of more and more women delaying marriage, the dangers to their fertility if they are being sexually promiscuous. It would behoove young women to get a hold of this book.
It also great at dealing with the feminist lie of patriarchal oppression, by putting them in there whole historical context and biological reality, and the nature's of men and women and why many of those things were put in place.
My only qualm was he was too kind with the qualifications and his attempt to nuanced and more reasonable, but it was probably wisdom on his part, and me being too radical on my part.
Want to read
March 24, 2022
February 10, 2020
Excellent. I'm buying copies to give away
July 21, 2025
This was a great book, and I think is particularly suited for young men/women who have done little critical thinking on the current progressive "story" being told. This would also just be a fun quick read (as it was for myself) for anyone who sees through the current liberal slop being shoved down our throats. Greg has a certain way of saying things (the title being a perfect example) that just helps things land hard, and right in the center.
Greg points to evolutionary elements to make certain arguments - particularly in the beginning and more anthropological section of his book - which is the only thing I really take disagreement with in an argumentative sense. Granted, Greg's point is never to make a "Biblical" case for anything, and he is very logical/natural in his approach to many of his statements. With this in mind, many of his points are simply observations of nature and how God created the world, so while I may disagree with the way he sometimes argued for something, his conclusions were typically right on point.
The only reason this isn't getting 5 stars from me is Greg never really doubles down and claims change is necessary. He even says things like "people should do what makes them happy", which in my opinion causes the argument to fall pretty far short of where it should land. The problem with making the observations and arguments he does, and then calling them generalities and saying that people should simply recognize there is an alternative to the liberal slop, is that these observations and arguments aren't simply alternatives. By that I mean that IF true, they are completely destructive to not just liberal thought, but liberal society in and of itself. There's no mutual society for both the liberal and traditionalist in a long term sense. One will die, and let's just say my money is on the one actually having babies, not the one killing them.
Greg points to evolutionary elements to make certain arguments - particularly in the beginning and more anthropological section of his book - which is the only thing I really take disagreement with in an argumentative sense. Granted, Greg's point is never to make a "Biblical" case for anything, and he is very logical/natural in his approach to many of his statements. With this in mind, many of his points are simply observations of nature and how God created the world, so while I may disagree with the way he sometimes argued for something, his conclusions were typically right on point.
The only reason this isn't getting 5 stars from me is Greg never really doubles down and claims change is necessary. He even says things like "people should do what makes them happy", which in my opinion causes the argument to fall pretty far short of where it should land. The problem with making the observations and arguments he does, and then calling them generalities and saying that people should simply recognize there is an alternative to the liberal slop, is that these observations and arguments aren't simply alternatives. By that I mean that IF true, they are completely destructive to not just liberal thought, but liberal society in and of itself. There's no mutual society for both the liberal and traditionalist in a long term sense. One will die, and let's just say my money is on the one actually having babies, not the one killing them.
July 14, 2022
Probably more of a 3.5 stars. I don't agree with all that he says but I do agree with his sentiment.
December 3, 2025
We were all thinking it
May 5, 2023
Listened to the audio version. In a world full of egalitarian thinking, this is a needed work in exposing the damage it’s done to our society. He gets a lot right despite his foundation being off. Highly recommend.
November 2, 2022
This is one of those books I wish everyone would read. The author provides 50 short thoughts and insights into the differences between men and women. While he approaches the subject of sexuality from an Evolutionary perspective (which I believe is irreconcilable with Biblical creation), he handily shows the importance in treating women differently from men, not only in history, but why they should be treated differently today.
January 10, 2020
A Must Read
In our day and age this book is a must read because it so entirely counter cultural. It's a must read for those who are at peace with the culture because it will challenge them and promote growth. It's a must read for those already in agreement with the book's premise because it will hone and sharpen their thoughts and thereby promote growth.
It's short and accessible to everybody, which is much needed for books dealing with such vital topics.
Read it and spread it far and wide among your friends and acquaintances.
In our day and age this book is a must read because it so entirely counter cultural. It's a must read for those who are at peace with the culture because it will challenge them and promote growth. It's a must read for those already in agreement with the book's premise because it will hone and sharpen their thoughts and thereby promote growth.
It's short and accessible to everybody, which is much needed for books dealing with such vital topics.
Read it and spread it far and wide among your friends and acquaintances.
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May 25, 2021Brilliant, hilarious, raw, and brutally honest
This book contains everything a man thinks and feels deep down but is suppressed in nearly every facet of life from being able to share or express. Greg tells it straight, and doesn't try to preserve anyone's precious feelings - something every true man left in this sissy modern world longs to hear... THE TRUTH! A must read! Even my wife and mother were nodding their heads along in agreement when I read them many of Greg's thoughts.
This book contains everything a man thinks and feels deep down but is suppressed in nearly every facet of life from being able to share or express. Greg tells it straight, and doesn't try to preserve anyone's precious feelings - something every true man left in this sissy modern world longs to hear... THE TRUTH! A must read! Even my wife and mother were nodding their heads along in agreement when I read them many of Greg's thoughts.
November 2, 2015
A well-written, sharply alternative perspective on men, women, and sexual morality. He gets some things wrong, but more things right. Particularly good thoughts on why most men don't want to marry today, and why it might still be worth it. Good, hard sense, and well worth your time. Get the e-book and buzz through it in an afternoon, then let the thoughts percolate for a few years.
September 29, 2021
Helpful nuggets of wisdom. Apply Biblically.
Appreciate the straight up man talk. Dislike the frequent "qualifiers" and the general evolutionary flavour. Men and women are different, made in the image of God. Human nature is either rooted in the Word of God or everything is up for grabs and you're on the same playing field as the egalitarians.
Appreciate the straight up man talk. Dislike the frequent "qualifiers" and the general evolutionary flavour. Men and women are different, made in the image of God. Human nature is either rooted in the Word of God or everything is up for grabs and you're on the same playing field as the egalitarians.
July 27, 2022
The subtitle is entirely correct; these politically incorrect thoughts that, generally, make all the sense in the world. As many others have said, this book is not written from an explicitly Christian framework, so if you have such an expectation, you will be in for quite a jolt. The book is, however, full of common grace truths that should be spoken clearly, just as the author does here.
January 5, 2016
Good! If only we could all agree that men and women are actually different, that women are good at things that men aren't - and vice versa - and there are consequences when we force it to be otherwise.
November 12, 2015
This is most certainly not a politically correct book by our cultural standards. But then again, what else may be able to awaken the army of sleeping Giants we have laying around doing nothing. Much appreciated.
September 28, 2016
Actually a really good short essay on the differences between the minds and motivations of men and women in life and relationships. And some thoughts that carefully challenge the politically correct ideas about gender roles and the importance of families in the fabric of society.
February 6, 2017
A bit brash sometimes, even for someone agreeing with his foundational assumptions, but then again it is written for men. Krebhiel speaks with joviality about feminism and defends "traditional morality" from a sociological point of view. A new spin on an old (hot) topic.
August 17, 2021
Politically incorrect, incredibly entertaining
This little book will rub you the wrong way yet it will ring true if you are really honest with yourself. It’s a helpful little book from a non religious, common sense perspective on men, women, roles and marriage.
This little book will rub you the wrong way yet it will ring true if you are really honest with yourself. It’s a helpful little book from a non religious, common sense perspective on men, women, roles and marriage.
July 12, 2022
A good antidote to red-pill manosphere and MGTOW types. Darwinist perspectives notwithstanding, this book offers pithy observations on the sexes. Christian complementarians would find help in the book’s arguments on sexual nature (instead of roles).
July 16, 2022
I enjoyed this book, especially the author's sense of humor. The only thing better would have been less qualifications and if he wasn't coming from an evolutionary biology point of view. But those are minor quibbles. It's a good book.
March 11, 2021
Astute and irrefutable observations that will get you canceled if made in polite company. Lots of good advice. Biggest weakness: assumes an evolutionary origin of human nature.
August 27, 2022
Listened to the audiobook. Not from a Christian worldview, but a lot of not-so-common, common sense about men and women. Will listen to again.
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