A top conservative writer explores the feminist assault on our families, schools, workplaces, and military
As a woman, Kate O'Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with. In her long-awaited first book, she takes on America's leading feminists-including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw. She confronts them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.
O'Beirne is all for women's equality and celebrates the unprecedented opportunities they enjoy today. But she faults those feminists who believe that a hostile patriarchy reigns and that women remain its helpless victims. Their agenda is not profemale; it's merely antimale.
Women Who Make the World Worse shows how their destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including:
• fractured families and dispensable dads
• offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the gender wars
• military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineering
This book takes on some very powerful women and challenges beliefs that have become feminist orthodoxy, starting with the myth that men are the enemy of women's progress. O'Beirne marshals her allies, prepares for a good fight, and never loses her sense of humor. This is a provocative book that will appeal to anyone, male or female, who wants some old-fashioned common sense about relations between the sexes.
"We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department." -Kate O'Beirne
Kate O'Beirne was a panelist on CNN's The Capital Gang for ten years. She is currently the Washington editor of National Review magazine. She is a lawyer and former vice president of the Heritage Foundation.
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March 16, 2007: I must say I didn't like the title too much and I thought the jacket cover illustration was silly BUT the content of this book is first-rate. O'Beirne cites chapter and verse from mainstream feminism and demonstrates how false it all is as well as how destructive it is to marriages, families, the workplace, our military, government, and society in general. One slight flaw to her analysis, or rather an omission on her part, is that she should have mentioned that most of the leading feminists are Marxist or quasi-Marxist in orientation, and that they use feminism not to help women, but to break down the family as the basic building block of society - the better in order to break down society itself and pave the way for their stupid man-hating 'transformation'.
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January 01, 2007: Women today are still not being treated fairly, I can understand why this may be considered offensive. Feminists are also working to get women rights globaly who have none! It is unfair to say women are now treated equal like many reviews have suggested. (why is there no Men Who Make the World Worse)