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#MenToo
Bettina Arndt is a rare public voice speaking on behalf of men – and the women who love them. This respected social commentator is renowned for tackling unmentionable topics. A former clinical psychologist and one of Australia’s first sex therapists, she first became well-known for breaking down taboos about talking about sex. Now it is men’s lives we aren’t allowed to speak about – the very real problems confronting men and boys in our male-bashing society. #MenToo breaks the silence about what it means to be a man in Australia today. For decades Bettina has been telling it how it is. She writes about sex-starved husbands, the politics of cleavage, fathers losing contact with children after divorce, false domestic violence allegations, men’s soaring suicide rates, the scary grip of feminism. Bettina sees #MeToo as simply the latest salvo in a long crusade by feminists to crush male sexuality. She finds most women are appalled by unproven allegations are being used to destroy men's careers and fed up with trivial issues being blown up as sexism. Read her powerful arguments about why feminism has gone off the rails – tilting laws, practises and regulations to unfairly advantage women at the expense of men. This year she faced hostile protesters on university campuses as she spoke out against the fake rape crisis, the myth that our universities are unsafe for young women. Her campus tour prompted a government inquiry seeking to support campus free speech. #MenToo – collected wisdom from decades of Bettina’s passionate advocacy for men and boys.
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322 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 12, 2018
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December 26, 2018
An essential and enjoyable read
Don’t read this if you have a closed mind. It challenges so many generally accepted contemporary ideas. I couldn’t put the book down! An exciting read full of humour and human stories that bring the issues alive. Excellent documentation.
Don’t read this if you have a closed mind. It challenges so many generally accepted contemporary ideas. I couldn’t put the book down! An exciting read full of humour and human stories that bring the issues alive. Excellent documentation.
April 26, 2019
In a climate where equality is being discussed in many modern platforms, it’s possible that some have become accustomed to hearing mainly one side of the story. This book presents another side of the discussion, positing that in some areas men also receive a lack of equality. Not all, not every, just certain areas.
Bettina Arndt is the bravest author I know to cover a topic that is so taboo. A topic that causes so much passionate outrage. She is potentially the voice of many people who might be afraid of a backlash if they express other ideas. My hat goes off to you for your courage.
This book is humourous and addictive. Every chapter covers a controversial topic (eg domestic violence, the libido gap, the pay gap, divorce and custody to name a few) and presents a case for how both men and women are affected, supported by citations and source evidence. I was shocked to learn as much as I did.
To be transparent, I should state that as a gay man, my viewpoint must be influenced and informed by being part of a previously oppressed group. I support equality for all, pure and simple, especially gender expectations. I don’t believe that one gender should be advantaged or disadvantaged based on their gender.
I wish that everyone would read this book. It is not about forcing opinions. It is about learning and being willing to look at a topic from another perspective even if different to your own. The topic is discussed. References exist aplenty. Anyone can pursue these themselves and confirm or refute them.
Bettina Arndt is the bravest author I know to cover a topic that is so taboo. A topic that causes so much passionate outrage. She is potentially the voice of many people who might be afraid of a backlash if they express other ideas. My hat goes off to you for your courage.
This book is humourous and addictive. Every chapter covers a controversial topic (eg domestic violence, the libido gap, the pay gap, divorce and custody to name a few) and presents a case for how both men and women are affected, supported by citations and source evidence. I was shocked to learn as much as I did.
To be transparent, I should state that as a gay man, my viewpoint must be influenced and informed by being part of a previously oppressed group. I support equality for all, pure and simple, especially gender expectations. I don’t believe that one gender should be advantaged or disadvantaged based on their gender.
I wish that everyone would read this book. It is not about forcing opinions. It is about learning and being willing to look at a topic from another perspective even if different to your own. The topic is discussed. References exist aplenty. Anyone can pursue these themselves and confirm or refute them.
June 16, 2019
I really wanted to like this book. But she lost me when she said porn is harmless to men. With no real proof, besides the wining of feminists. Even porn addicts admit that porn is harmful and depletes their sex drive, and brain chemistry. I sort of wished she had left it for the end. She advocates prostitution which makes sense as the "healthier" alternative so why praise porn? Otherwise, standout chapters are: Demonisation of men- our anti male society, The Domestic Violence Industry - Feminism's cash cow, and the Growing Power of LeftWing Women. I was disappointed that most of the book refers to Australia and its stats. It mirrors US, but it would be nice to get a whole U.S. version on this topic.
February 16, 2022
This book reminded me of math class, where the teacher wasn’t so much worried about students getting the right answer so much as using the correct working. At its heart the concept of this book makes sense. What it attempts to be is a book that looks dispassionately at subjects with a current sex/gender skew: should we as a society care more about one form of cancer over another; should we only consider one group’s domestic violence, but not another’s? The problem is that I'm not sure about the working used to reach each conclusion.
In some areas, I think the author, Bettina Arndt, does a good job of highlighting genuine issues. I’m not sure if she cherry-picks data, but she does raise issues such as the emerging willingness of society to discuss, and address, violence against women in relationships, whilst not wanting to include the fact that men are also victims of this type of crime.
The difficulty for me was that what I wanted was an agnostic journalist to research and assess each topic without any bias. Instead, it felt like Arndt came to every issue with the angle of “there are dollars to be made from the devil’s advocate position that men are the victim here or there”. The small amount of references makes it hard to background check the information.
The topics are interesting, such as attitudes to non-aligned libido in relationships, gender pay gap, use of porn, universities in the modern world.
This was a book where I wanted a constant phone-a-friend to ask, “hey, does this check out?”. I found myself constantly checking the scant sources in the back, or wondering why she used one source when other more well-known studies were available. Interesting and contentious book.
In some areas, I think the author, Bettina Arndt, does a good job of highlighting genuine issues. I’m not sure if she cherry-picks data, but she does raise issues such as the emerging willingness of society to discuss, and address, violence against women in relationships, whilst not wanting to include the fact that men are also victims of this type of crime.
The difficulty for me was that what I wanted was an agnostic journalist to research and assess each topic without any bias. Instead, it felt like Arndt came to every issue with the angle of “there are dollars to be made from the devil’s advocate position that men are the victim here or there”. The small amount of references makes it hard to background check the information.
The topics are interesting, such as attitudes to non-aligned libido in relationships, gender pay gap, use of porn, universities in the modern world.
This was a book where I wanted a constant phone-a-friend to ask, “hey, does this check out?”. I found myself constantly checking the scant sources in the back, or wondering why she used one source when other more well-known studies were available. Interesting and contentious book.
December 21, 2019
An outstanding as well as an encouraging text. A lot of this stuff I sort of knew so it was great to discover that I am not the only one thinking about these types of issues. The section on domestic violence was especially helpful and tied in with my own experiences of working with people who experience this. A first class piece of work and I look forward to reading other items by this author and watching her material on YouTube.
April 8, 2020
I heard so many awful things about Bettina and how she should have her Order of Australia stripped from her from so many women on various ABC programs. I thought she must have stirred something up so I googled her. I learnt more about her work and then heard her talking. She seemed very reasonable, more level headed than those demanding that she had betrayed Australian women. So I picked this book up. Read it and make your own mind up.
July 23, 2022
It is really nice to read a book about the plight of men .
Bettina sights statistics, older and current to illustrate her points.
She shows how women’s interest groups distort statistics to further a political agenda that puts men in a bad light.
The politicians and the media are totally captured by this agenda. They are not interested in alternative views.
She is very brave.
Bettina sights statistics, older and current to illustrate her points.
She shows how women’s interest groups distort statistics to further a political agenda that puts men in a bad light.
The politicians and the media are totally captured by this agenda. They are not interested in alternative views.
She is very brave.
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September 8, 2020
Ok i have the same amazing "issue" with this book as i do with Why Nations Fail lol i bought it ages ago and im still reading it, googling multiple times a page lol no word is wasted in this book. Im SO GLAD i bought it!!
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