Women: Theory and Practice
by Bernard Chapin
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Author: Bernard ChapinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-14
ISBN: 0595443605
Number of pages: 246
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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Book Review: The personal has become political - A 21st century Male's survival guide
Summary: 5 Stars
According to Kant, writing over 200 years ago, to marry was to halve one's rights and to double one's duties. For Kant's great successor, Arthur Schopenhauer, marriage was only possible as the outcome of a conjuring trick played by nature upon men. The short lived beauty and charm of female youthfulness acting to lure lovestruck men into irrationally signing away their independence for a lifelong contract of devotion and commitment. The result of nature's sorcery perhaps, yet Schopenhauer had no doubt that marriage was essential to civilisation, even if he, like Kant, was always too wise to fall through its heavily scented trap door. For (writing three decades before Darwin spelled it out scientifically) sexual attraction and the bonds that result from it, are nothing less than vital to the reproduction of the species itself, even if in the light of the 21stcentury this essential truth has incredibly been lost behind the deceitful fog of feminist mythmaking.
Such is the setting for Bernard Chapin's quite brilliant treatise on what it means for society, as well as for the personal dignity of men and women, to lose sight of this politically incorrect truth and for nature's fundamental balance between male desire and female desirability to be disturbed and broken. In a world in which feminists have achieved their oft-quoted aim of making the `personal political', the book is an earnest plea for a rational reappraisal of the relationship between the sexes. The author shows how making the personal political has been achieved by a manipulation and perversion of the hardwired male chivalric disposition to express devotion to the female into a sad male acquiescence to the emergence of a political gynocracy . A New Womb Order in which decisions are made almost wholly for the apparent benefit of women, yet which not only leads to yet more suffering for the disposable male, actually fails to give a sense of personal happiness to the majority of women and that furthermore will be disastrous in the long term for both men and women and the civilisation to which they both belong. Feminism is reducing politics to the level of an ancient pagan mother goddess cult but men have forgotten that the reason our ancestors worshiped these fertility idols in the first place, was because they intuitively felt that the future of what they and their own forefathers had built depended upon it. The ultimate irony of feminism as womb deification is that, as Mark Steyn said to Chapin in an interview, `the future belongs to those who will be around to see it'. Feminism is leading to such a disastrous drop in Western birth rates that the likelihood is that `we' won't be around to see the results of our misguided devotion to the mother goddess who chooses to abort rather than concieve, and seeks re-election rather than reproduction.
I came to this book after becoming a devotee of the author's brilliant and entertaining video blogs on youtube (`Chapin's Inferno`). There, Chapin demonstrates a wonderfully educated and devastatingly rapier intellect which, every week, is unleashed upon some madness of the political left. I therefore had high expectations and I can honestly say that they have been quite exceeded. Not only is the argument of the book presented logically and clearly, it is also expressed at times quite beautifully. The guy is simply a very talented writer with a brilliant turn of phrase. This is demonstrated nowhere better than in his ruthless critique of the feminist position on porn and sexual objectification. He demolishes various arguments such as the idea that porn leads to sexual attacks on women ( `it simply enables men to get to sleep a little earlier') and debunks the notion of the sexually objectifying `male gaze' altogether - `(if the female sex are treated as objects then..) the female sex are treated with an awe generally reserved for religious relics'.
I couldn't find many faults with the book. Chapin's humanity and general `niceness' are transparent throughout. If I was to make a criticism, it would be that the author is rather more charitable to the distinction between radical feminism and mainstream feminism than I and many others would be, and a lot more optimistic as to the ability of women to share legislative power with men in a just and equitable way. But perhaps it is better that Chapin doesn`t quite share our pessimistic outlook, as it means that `Women : Theory and Practice' can't be pidgeon-holed by its opponents as simply an `anti-feminist' work. Destined to become a classic of the Men's Movement that it entirely deserves to be, this is also a book that every man should read simply as a guidebook to life in a brave new world.
Summary of Women: Theory and Practice
In Women: Theory and Practice, Bernard Chapin challenges the accepted theories of feminism and sexual equality in this thought-provoking, revolutionary look at the battle of the sexes in the twenty-first century. This book captures the true essence of today?s apocryphal gap between men and women and how it affects not only the workplace, but also romantic relationships and the interactions of men and women everywhere.Chapin introduces a truly contrarian argument against society?s current atmosphere of political correctness. He also makes a convincing case for the hidden damage caused by the women?s movement and the popular mindset that women are no longer just the fairer sex, they are the better sex.
Chapin questions the rationale behind policies and laws created to protect women?s rights and to construct equality in the workplace. Chapin describes society?s current backlash against men and how it has created a culture that has wrongly declared women to be intellectually, morally, and emotionally superior.
Women: Theory and Practice provides a clear, rational argument against a popular socio-political atmosphere that has turned women into demi-gods, and men into second class citizens.
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