Status Updates From What Is Wrong with Men: Pat...

It is almost unanimous in our governing bodies that people do not have the right to quality and affordable healthcare, clean water, excellent education, and a sustainable path into the future.

The father, according to Lifton, "is identified with social and moral authority," and those without the resources to take advantage of the freedom to create one's own sense of social and moral authority are vulnerable to making a substitution with a false father.

Hon, that's the patriarchy. You lost your own plot!

Meredith then, in her new position of undeserved power, sexually harasses Tom and "nearly rapes" him. It's an upsetting scene not because of its depiction of sexual assault but because of all the heavy breathing and slurping sounds.

How, a college-educated liberal will say, can a working-class man blame immigrants for his inability to find a job, rather than the real culprit, globalization/the billionaire class/and so forth?
Well, one could answer: How can a college-educated liberal blame personal failings for so-called toxic masculine behaviors, rather than the real culprit, globalization/etc.?

Not the same. Did you hit your head?

He wants to be better than his father, and not necessarily in the patriarchal way that each generation hopes that the one that follows will suffer less, have more, and build on what has already been established.
No, this is not the patriarchy, sorry.

The patriarchy as a system of institutions, rituals, and roles, has encouraged, even if it didn't celebrate, hard work, delayed gratification, and public service. Now material incentives like financial stability and property ownership and a sense of purpose have been destroyed and replaced.
This is the crux of the book's thesis, and it's weird. The "patriarchy" and late-stage capitalism aren't linked in that way.

(Wall Street) Carl's life is the patriarchal dream of a good life, but it's conjured by a man asleep to social changes. He'll find himself not respected and emulated but hated as a baby boomer by the coming generation for not leaving behind a bountiful enough inheritance.
WHAT

"If he is loyal to his company, the executives will pay him les than what he deserves and then they'll lay him off to hit some arbitrary number on a quarterly report no one reads."
Yes, investors are generally aware of financial results. What?

"Men's rights" organizations highlighted the disparity between the genders when it came to custody cases, although they left out that more than 90 percent of custody cases are decided with both parties consenting to the terms. The vast majority of mothers who leave a marriage with full custody do so because the father agreed.
-- Most settlements are decided according to how the lawyers advise the judge will decide.

[no-fault divorce], the conservative critics rightly believed, would make it even easier for men to abandon their families, leaving stay-at-home mothers alone to raise their children in diminished circumstances. Other parts of the feminist project (gay rights, desegregation, access to birth control and abortion, and so on) offended their sensibilities, which were often religious in nature.
UM, NO - also TERF vibes

Maybe men should have been reconsidering how to be husbands? Many didn't, as was made evident by how the number of hours married men spent performing domestic or childcare labor barely moved upward through the eighties and nineties. (About eleven hours a week in 1987, up from seven in 1970, according to a University of Maryland study.) - That's more than 50%, a lot! We don't know the womens' hours.

The kind of man Michael Douglas represented in films was not a bigot. ...But he also didn't seem to think that the feminist movement and the changes happening in the political and cultural reality of women had anything to do with him. And in that way, he was a kind of cinematic stand-in for a lot of men of the time: liberal, tolerant, and clueless.

Pat Robertson called the feminist campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment an "anti-family movement that encouraged women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Me: Sign me up.

fun book to read in the break room!!