Esther Vilar's classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children in return for carefully dispensed praise and sex. Vilar's perceptive, thought-provoking and often very funny look at the battle between the sexes has earned her severe criticism and even death threats. But Vilar's ...
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Esther Vilar's classic polemic about the relationship between the sexes caused a sensation on its first publication. In her introduction to this revised edition, Vilar maintains that very little has changed. A man is a human being who works, while a woman chooses to let a man provide for her and her children in return for carefully dispensed praise and sex. Vilar's perceptive, thought-provoking and often very funny look at the battle between the sexes has earned her severe criticism and even death threats. But Vilar's intention is not misogynous: she maintains that only if women and men look at their place in society with honesty, will there be any hope for change.
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While it is clear that Ms. Vilar is angry at the state of her sex, and she is repelled by the cowardice and manipulative spirit of so many of her gender, she should not be condemned out of hand for her emotional response since it is accompanied by a searingly accurate description of some of the worst traits of the female of the species. The fact is that far too few women demonstrate the intellectual curiosity and the integrity that might be expected from an oppressed group ready to sacrifice to raise its intellectual status. As Ms. Vilar justly observes, all too many are happy and self-indulgent. They are proud to exist in a state of chronic ignorance and many seem to think that it entitles them to rule the opposite sex with an iron grip. I would have liked, however, for her to bring the same energy and intelligence to a critique of the equally distasteful state of the fallen male. All in all, thumbs up--a great book.
Michael R. Swift
Sep 17, 2013
Brutally Honest
This is the most direct, honest, and logical assessment of the realities that exist in the relationship between men and women that I have ever read. Ms Vilar doesn't hold back any painful truths. She sugar-coats nothing. She tells it like it is. I appreciate her for exposing a malignancy which is the most dangerous cancer threatening our society: the materialistic, sexist and racist ideology known as feminism!
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Sep 9, 2010
The Manipulated Man
A book that, when read, still makes you pause and think and want to discuss it with somebody, whether or not you agree with the author's premise.
