Monday, 21 June 2010

Due to my dissertation I have been doing a lot of research on feminism. So, I came across Esther Vilar, a portuguese/german ANTI feminist writer. Her book The Manipulated Man has caused quite a lot of controversy amongst feminists.
Here are some points she is trying to convey in her book:

1. Men are conscripted; women are not.
2. Men are sent to fight in wars; women are not.
3. Men retire later than women (even though, due to their lower life-expectancy, they should have the right to retire earlier).
4. Men have almost no influence over their reproduction (for males, there is neither a pill nor abortion - they can only get the children women want them to have).
5. Men support women; women never, or only temporarily, support men.
6. Men work all their lives; women work only temporarily or not at all.
7. Even though men work all their lives, and women work only temporarily or not at all, on average, men are poorer than women.
8. Men only "borrow" their children; woman can keep them (as men work all their lives and women do not, men are automatically robbed of their children in cases of separation - with the reasoning that they have to work).


Read it and make up your mind.