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How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide

by Peter Boghossian (Goodreads Author)

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I Am Bunny: How a Talking Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human

by Alexis Devine

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Dec 27, 2025 04:44PM

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The Relentless War on Masculinity: Does it Ever End?

by David Maywald (Goodreads Author)

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A O'Hara said: " Profoundly deluded and selective in data and research, this book comes off as an initiative led by someone with deep concern for difficulties men face, but lacking the emotional depth or dexterity to inquire either "How", or "Why" things unfold the w Profoundly deluded and selective in data and research, this book comes off as an initiative led by someone with deep concern for difficulties men face, but lacking the emotional depth or dexterity to inquire either "How", or "Why" things unfold the way they do, or creativity to resolve the matter.

He naturally lands on the culprit / scapegoat: women, without whom men would naturally conquer the world with all freedoms and unfettered licence; and thus seeks to reverse any progress made in legal rights, medical research or professional esteem, and put the focus of all back squarely where similar such men believe it belongs: 99.5% in their favor, with women as collateral (and mostly unnoticed) damage.

Granted that the family courts are hard on everyone, and I am aware of vindictive women taking advantage of the #MeToo movement, but to say that women are automatically believed is perversely ignorant, and what credibility does he have to be writing on the law?

Likewise he complains that a single recent cancer treatment happens to work better for women, or that women finally reached priority in a recent health budget.
Does he know anything at all about policy development or medical research or history?
Has he really not noticed that medicine was almost exclusively performed by men, on men, for men, since its inception; or that women carry the higher burden of chronic and autoimmune disease, and entire disease categories have barely been studied because they only affect women?

Apparently not.

Is he interested? Not at all! Those are women's problems (and good luck handling that since the maleficus maleficarum targeted and dismantled the female venture capitalist networks operating from the 1300s to the 1600s to terrorise women into dependency upon disfavorable unions, then wrote women out of 'his'tory to cover it up).

Even the title, "The Relentless War on Masculinity", as many abusers do, conflates equality with a direct attack on what men have claimed as their domain: trampling lives, careers and bodily autonomy, and springs from a failure in the entire research stage to even investigate what the term "toxic masculinity" seeks to describe.

It is well-written and smooth read though! Hence 2 stars. ...more "

Nov 19, 2025 05:17PM · see review

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