What is a Man?
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Editor: Waller Randy NewellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-02
ISBN: 0060392967
Number of pages: 790
Publisher: Regan Books
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Book Review: A Good Start
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is definitely on the right track. A corrective of this sort is sorely, sorely needed in our colleges and universities. The standard academic line these days, which is reflected in the godly status of such lesbian-feminist frauds as Judith Halberstam ("Female Masculinity") and Judith Butler ("Gender Trouble"), indicates the extent to which our universities have decided to institutionalize the insane policy of allowing such people to prey on young men and women at a vulnerable time in their lives, and to tell these young people (and their parents)that this is why they have gone to college. In fact, what our young men need, at any rate, is to have sensible, well-educated, happily married, family men help them to understand that a good man strives, eventually, to be a good husband and a good father, and that these are greatly fulfilling to a mature man. There are exceptions to this life of a mature man (of the Oscar Wilde variety that the predictably snide editorial reviewer so predictably brought up), but it is very important for all young men to see that masculinity is not just defined by the vulgar strutting of celebrity rappers or other mass-media performers, but rather by taking responsibility for your own actions, caring for the well-being of your family, and showing yourself to be more than just a slave to your sex-drive. The fact that men now so commonly abandon a faithful wife of 20 years for a younger woman is a sign of a problem quite in addition to the onslaught of the feminists (or is it another sign of the crisis that they have helped to bring on?). This latter problem is a problem of screwed-up priorities, screwed-up ideas of what a man's life is, and a screwed-up idea of what life has to offer. Newell's book may not change our society, but by insisting that a man define himself by according dignity to himself and the women in his life, by defining his masculinity by responsibility to others and self-accountability, he suggests a path I would surely rather see my own children follow. It's a book that a young man would greatly benefit from if he could just be convinced to turn off the TV or stereo long enough to read it.
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