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Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters (2013)

by Helen Smith

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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.… (more)
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Good men go through so much these days I hope they stand up for themselves. ( )
  jenniebooks | Jul 30, 2021 |
Great topic. Limited perspective on the male. ( )
  DouglasDuff | Jun 21, 2021 |
One of the few vocal women in the US that understands male psychology and she definitely has her thumb on the pulse of American cultural undercurrents. People that are used to hearing feminist political narratives that insist all social activity favors men may have a tough time digesting Smith's more complex and varied experience-based assessment. Her position as a psychologist has given her a candid insight into the private thoughts of men throughout the US without the inhibitions caused by the artifice of political correctness. ( )
  Chickenman | Sep 11, 2018 |
A very interesting book. It really is about the author's perception that things have moved against the American male or specifically the American white male. I tend to believe that the American world is still controlled by white men so no matter what Helen Smith says or the anecdotal support she brings in, it will take a lot of things to occur before we can say that women have it better over men. That being said I did find her section on male paternity responsibility for children that prove to not have been fathered by them a point that I agree with her about. Why should a man who was tricked into believing that he had fathered a child that later proved to not be his be forced to pay child support until the child is 18. If the book does nothing but get this changed then it is fine, but the idea that women and their issues have moved men into a no college, no marriage state is to basically given too much credit to the movement and not enough to the man's choice to not get married or go to college. She seems to categorize women as manipulators who trick men into marriage and having children. A definite generalization. This is a good book to read because it gives a sense about how the man/woman connection is currently viewed by many within our society. I overall think the book is biased against women but overall it was a good read and I for one will get on the author's website and engage her in some lively debate. ( )
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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going "on strike." They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this "man-child" phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren't dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

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