Save the Males
Why Men Matter
Why Women Should Care
By Kathleen Parker
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Doug Marlette on Kathleen Parker
Kathleen Parker is fearless and fiercely independent. In a field overstuffed with bloviating harrumphers, careerist copycats and Op-Ed Ambien, her copy sings. She writes with grace, wit and style and is always prescient, prophetic, ahead of the curve. She identified the current climate of man-hating, Dad-dumping male-bashing long before it turned up on Oprah. And on top of all that, she is funny. She doesn't take herself too seriously and she expects the same from our politicians. She reminds us why those who can do, and those who can't blog. Long may she wave.
Doug Marlette
Political cartoonist and author
(1949-2007)
Doug Marlette
Political cartoonist and author
(1949-2007)
Praise for Kathleen Parker's SAVE THE MALES
“Save the Males is witty and it’s going to make you laugh, but it is also serious, thoughtful,
brilliantly observed, and dead on. I’m giving it to my son as a show of solidarity, and to let him know that men, and manhood, have a great friend and defender named Kathleen Parker.”
— Peggy Noonan, author and Wall Street Journal columnist
“Kathleen Parker has not written a politically correct book. Instead, she has written a morally, socially, and culturally compelling book. It is about men. She thinks we’re worth saving
(I hope we are). But, she is always worth reading—and listening to. Kathleen Parker is just
what our modern age, and its men and women, need.”
— William J. Bennett, Fellow, The Claremont Institute and Host, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America
“As in her must read-column, Kathleen Parker proves to be not just a sharp thinker, but a blithe spirit. While most social critics fight the gender wars from the female side, Parker throws our men and our boys an intelligent, heartfelt, humorous lifejacket. In SAVE THE MALES,
she shows how the lives we save may be our own.”
— Margaret Carlson, Columnist, Bloomberg news, Washington Editor, The Week Magazine
“So, the ‘war between the sexes’ has found its Ernie Pyle. As a correspondent reporting from the front lines, Kathleen Parker writes with an appropriate mixture of amusement and amazement
about the galloping nonsense currently said about the subject of sex. Her judgments are irresistible,
as when she says of pornography: ‘What little I’ve seen reminds me mostly of a construction site in Dubai—lots of big cranes and loud pounding, but not much to warm the human heart.’”
— George F. Will
“Even the feminists among us who read this book, once they catch their breath, will have to admit Parker has a point . . . and she’s made it brilliantly.”
— Mary Ann Lindley, Editorial page editor, Tallahassee Democrat/Gannett Newspapers
SAVE THE MALES
Why Men Matter; Why Women Should Care
By Kathleen Parker
Random House / On Sale June 10, 2008
brilliantly observed, and dead on. I’m giving it to my son as a show of solidarity, and to let him know that men, and manhood, have a great friend and defender named Kathleen Parker.”
— Peggy Noonan, author and Wall Street Journal columnist
“Kathleen Parker has not written a politically correct book. Instead, she has written a morally, socially, and culturally compelling book. It is about men. She thinks we’re worth saving
(I hope we are). But, she is always worth reading—and listening to. Kathleen Parker is just
what our modern age, and its men and women, need.”
— William J. Bennett, Fellow, The Claremont Institute and Host, Bill Bennett’s Morning in America
“As in her must read-column, Kathleen Parker proves to be not just a sharp thinker, but a blithe spirit. While most social critics fight the gender wars from the female side, Parker throws our men and our boys an intelligent, heartfelt, humorous lifejacket. In SAVE THE MALES,
she shows how the lives we save may be our own.”
— Margaret Carlson, Columnist, Bloomberg news, Washington Editor, The Week Magazine
“So, the ‘war between the sexes’ has found its Ernie Pyle. As a correspondent reporting from the front lines, Kathleen Parker writes with an appropriate mixture of amusement and amazement
about the galloping nonsense currently said about the subject of sex. Her judgments are irresistible,
as when she says of pornography: ‘What little I’ve seen reminds me mostly of a construction site in Dubai—lots of big cranes and loud pounding, but not much to warm the human heart.’”
— George F. Will
“Even the feminists among us who read this book, once they catch their breath, will have to admit Parker has a point . . . and she’s made it brilliantly.”
— Mary Ann Lindley, Editorial page editor, Tallahassee Democrat/Gannett Newspapers
SAVE THE MALES
Why Men Matter; Why Women Should Care
By Kathleen Parker
Random House / On Sale June 10, 2008
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Copyright 2008 Kathleen Parker
Copyright 2008 Kathleen Parker
1 comment:
Kathleen,
Thank you for loving and valuing your father, husband and sons enough to talk back to pervasively demeaning messages our culture has been sending our nation's children, both boys and girls, about boys and men for years now.
This nation is already fully bombarded with messages intended to keep us in emotionally and verbally "armed" racial, ethnic, and cultural lines. Adding gender to that balkanized list only adds to the list of things that serve to keep us from identifying with, and feeling for, others readily. Not exactly a prescription for national and social survival.
Maybe thats the point. Maybe unhappy and unfulfilled people don't want to see the world of people around them content and fulfilled when they feel such a void in their lives. I just don't know.
Men and western civilization haven't been an unmitigated good for the world. Human beings and civilizations make mistakes.
However, if people were to simply look around without biased eyes for a moment, and simply notice the contribution of men and western civilization to their lives (from the printing press, refrigeration, vaccines and modern medicine, telephony, the notion of human beings having fundamental and inalienable rights that governments are instituted to protect, to just about every subject taught in every university in the world), they might think to challenge the messages that the most miserable offer up as the true picture of the world they inhabit. Why most don't, I don't know.
Anyway, thank you for challenging the current zeitgeist, a zeitgeist that doesn't serve anyone well.
Doug
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