Subject: [MENTION] A list of books
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 14:23:15 EDT
From: irlandes@juno.com This is not intended to be
a "Must read" of books. Most of you have plenty to read already, and I
could probably be well served to know what you read.
My intention is to supply books that might be useful to those DESIRING more basic books
on men's issues.
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1. AN ESSAY ON POPULATION, last revised 1825, by
Malthus. I'm not sure this is word for word the title, but you should have no
problem finding it if you look for Malthus and population. I can't give you the ISBN
because I read it in Mexico City, thus don't have it with me.
Malthus has been highly quoted, Cliff's Notes style, for his statement that population
tends to grow to the limit of resources.
What no one has told you is that almost half of the book is about welfare systems,
which in those days were called poor laws. He supplies chapter after chapter of
statistics, naming countries and provinces, to support his observation that providing help
to the poor, as was part of law in much of Europe in those days, actually INCREASED
POVERTY AND SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR.
Over 100 years before the New Deal, and 117 years before I was born, someone had
already proved that government assistance to the poor made matters worse.
Wouldn'cha' think the (small l) liberals would've told us about this?
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The Manipulated Man, translated from German in 1972, written by
Esther Vilar. I think she is from Europe, and she wrote the book because she was
appalled at what she saw in the United States - men as virtual slaves to women, yet women
whining about their exploited fate.
She says repeatedly that American women generally are stupid and lazy, and don't
even deserve the intelligent capable men they manipulate and control.
Not much on statistics, but it certainly formed my opinions.
[The book is back in print. I did
order a copy and found it to be immensely interesting and pertinent.
Walter]
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The Garbage Generation, 1990, by Prof. Daniel Amneus, ISBN
0-9610864-4-0 (hard cover), 0-9610864-5-9 (paperback). This book not only
presents, but documents with a large number of studies, Dr. Amneus' belief that
patriarchy, (the guaranteed role of men in the family), is a precondition of civilization.
It is part scholarly treatise, and partly vehement commentary. Perhaps a third of
the book is a review of all the studies which show superior performance of people raised
in the two parent family, independent of income.
Later theorists have modified his theory, to state that patriarchy is not a
precondition of civilization, it IS civilization.
I was fascinated by his claim that most prison inmates are from female headed, single
parent families. At that time, my brother-in-law, who had worked in corrections for
25 years, was not yet dead, nor divorced by my sister because she lusted after a man half
her age. I asked him if there was any truth to that claim. He said, yes, they
seldom got prisoners from a two parent family.
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MANHOOD REDUX: STANDING UP TO FEMINISM, 1985, ISBN
0-935985-00-X, by C.H. "Max" Freedman, at that time, a writer for a now defunct
New York Newspaper. He now contributes to the LIBERATOR, a newsletter published by
Richard Doyle and his wife.
This is pure entertainment! Vehement critical comment on feminism, with a mixture
of facts tossed in.
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MALE AND FEMALE: A STUDY OF THE SEXES IN A CHANGING WORLD.
1949, by Margaret Mead.
Someone commented that Mead had been discredited. I assume she meant her
earliest
work on female adolescence in a (Samoa?) society, which was found to contain certain
flaws. I have never heard anyone say she had the total unreliability of, say, Lenore
Weitzman, Lenore Walker, or Phylis Chessler.
I think this is the book where she states that no society, save one which taught men to
take care of their nieces and nephews, ever succeeded in getting men to support anyone but
their current sex partners and her children.
This is a sympathetic analysis of men and women by a woman, before extremist feminism
declared that all women are good and all men are bad.
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THE MYTH OF MALE POWER, 1993, by Warren Farrell, PH.D.,
ISBN 0-671-79349-7.
This is a somewhat scholarly work, with many statistics supporting his theory that 'men
have all the power' is a hoax, that in fact men have very little power.
This book is the one that reported the Air Force false rape charges study we discussed.
Also, another good example of his in-depth statistics is on page 244. He reports that
since 1954, 70,000 women have committed murder, including 60,000 male victims, but no
woman has ever been executed for killing only a man. He has a lot of goodies like
that.
My disagreement with Farrell, a former officer of NOW until he dared to disagree that
all men are victimizers and all women are victims, is that he supports feminism, he just
seems to think men should get their turn now. Of course, some of you may agree with
him.
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WEAK LINK: THE FEMINIZATION OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY,
1989, by Brian Mitchell, ISBN 0-89526-555-9. He resigned from a officer's job to
report on how badly the military is being crippled by femi demands that women be moved
into military leadership. This was before VMI's destruction.
He has a detailed analysis of affirmative action at the Air Force Academy in Colorado,
and how preposterous the claims that the pampered, molly-coddled women cadets who
graduated from the Academy performed as well as the men.
He reported that in the first co-ed class to graduate, for the first time ever, a male
graduate of the Air Force Academy enlisted in the ARMY.
This is another example of the question, "How can a woman who can't survive verbal
harassment by members of her own military, lead men into combat against angry enemy with
live bullets?"
I don't remember my chronolgy, but wasn't 1989 before the big lie, later discredited,
that a woman in Panama had lead men into combat?
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THE BLACKMAN'S GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE BLACKWOMAN,
1989, by Shahrazad Ali, ISBN 0-933405-01-4. I realize most of you aren't black, but
the few white women who have read my copy, have admitted that white women manipulate their
husbands, and teach their sons and daughters to hate their fathers, just as Ali claims
black women do.
Ali had claimed that black men have been destroyed by their own women, not by
whites. And, she claimed this behavior was unique to blacks. It's not.
The book is a detailed description of the lies women tell their men, how they brainwash
their kids to subvert male leadership, and the vicious games they play.
I live in a multi-ethnic family, and I have heard female, black acquaintances do
exactly the things she describes - just as I have heard a few white women say the same
things.
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FATHERS RIGHTS: THE SOURCEBOOK FOR DEALING WITH THE CHILD
SUPPORT SYSTEM, 1989, by Jon Conine, ISBN 0-8027-1074-3.
This book exposes the illegal and unjust acts committed by the child support system in
the United States, and the author admits some of these things do, indeed, destroy men's
motivation, even ability, to pay child support.
As a counselor of divorced men, I knew almost all the things he wrote, except one or
two minor points.
Here is the amazing thing about this book which makes it so valuable:
THE AUTHOR IS A CHILD SUPPORT OFFICIAL, NOT A DIVORCED PAYOR OF SUPPORT.
In fact, he was for a time, State Director in Washington State.
He says men need to organize politically, and correct these illegal and sexist actions.
Good idea! Wish my generation had thought of that. :-)
Speaking of Washington State, a side note: Did you know that Washington State has
a law which forces divorced step dads to pay support? It has been upheld by the
Washington State Supreme Court, and says that a woman can collect full amounts of support
from as many men as she can convince to marry her, besides just the natural
father,
without reduction for any remarriages. Anyone who has watched femis know it's only a
matter of time until this sweeps the nation. This is more proof that child support
has nothing to do with biological parents' responsibility to support their children, but
just another excuse to enslave men for the benefit of women.
Again, they are hurting women while claiming to help women. Intelligent men,
informed men, educated men, will be the first to decline to marry women with kids, so
divorced women with kids, who already have trouble finding a man to help raise her kids,
will be reduced to marrying total dummies, not usually considered to be the best
husbands. (Though to be fair, I am convinced this phenomenon is already at work in
the drastic reduction in net marriages in the States, that women generally are marrying
way down the socioeconomic ladder, because more intelligent men know marriage is often
merely a prelude to divorce, and want no part of it.)
That item about step dad support was published, as I remember, in the LIBERATOR, a year
or so ago. The test case to the WA Supreme Court fortunately involved a man who was
able to annul his marriage, thus escaping support, because he was able to prove the
druggie he married had left him with the kids right after the wedding ceremony, thus never
consummated the marriage.
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Well, there's some of the books most critical to my development as an activist. I
wish to repeat I am not urging anyone to take time to look for, and read these books, but
they may be of interest to someone.
Also, generally, these books include large amounts of footnotes to support the opinions
stated. In fact, those statistics generally are the reason I find the books
valuable.
bruce mcgovern |