A Review of 'What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents' by Nina Power
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I laughed when I was asked to review a book called “What Do Men Want?”, written by a woman. Before Trump went down the escalator 2015, you could visit the checkout line of any supermarket and see an array of woman’s magazines with hot women on the cover, containing article headlines like, as Dave Chappelle phrased it,
Nina strikes me as an IDW-type: she wants her Leftism, but not too much. Like the IDW, she doesn’t recognize that Cthulhu always swims left, and the Revolution doesn’t stop at a line in the sand.
I salute you reading this terrible book and saving me from suffering through it.
I try not to read anything from the past 40 years, unless I've been thinking about it for a long time and know it's going to deliver fascinating insights. There's a significant recency bias — I think it's better to read classics that have been around for centuries, rather than these ego-driven academic hacks who will get published and immediately forgotten.
Nina strikes me as an IDW-type: she wants her Leftism, but not too much. Like the IDW, she doesn’t recognize that Cthulhu always swims left, and the Revolution doesn’t stop at a line in the sand.
I salute you reading this terrible book and saving me from suffering through it.
I try not to read anything from the past 40 years, unless I've been thinking about it for a long time and know it's going to deliver fascinating insights. There's a significant recency bias — I think it's better to read classics that have been around for centuries, rather than these ego-driven academic hacks who will get published and immediately forgotten.
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