The End of Men: And the Rise of Women Paperback – September 3, 2013

Timeless information that is as true as it was ten years ago. Helps explain why so many of us men are having trouble coping in Todays WOMEN's world. Since reading this book, I have tried to apply what I have learned to my job situations at work and am doing much better. I am learning to cooperate and work with my female superiors at work and accept women's ways of doing things. I am opening my eyes and seeing the world around me with more women holding the advanced college degrees and earning more money than their male counterparts. I am also learning to willingly acquiesce and submit to women in the workplace. For example: I was recently selling a piece of equipment. A man initially contacted me and inquired and tried out the machine that I was selling. But when it came down to negotiations on price he said that he needed to talk with his “banker” (his wife). At that point I recognized that his Wife controlled the money. So I began talking directly to her and trying to please her and answering up to her inquiries. Meanwhile her husband stood quietly off to the side only occasionally offering his input. In the end I knew it was her I needed to impress and NOT him. I made the sale and in the end though to was her who wrote the check and NOT him.I WISH I WOULD HAVE HAD THE HELP OF A BOOK LIKE THIS 20 YEARS AGO. IT WOULD HAVE GREATLY ADVANCED MY CAREER AND MADE MY LIFE A HECK OF A LOT EASIER!

I have been planning to write about Hanna Rosin's "The End of Men and the Rise of Women". It provided me with several illustrations in sermons. A day off and some notes I scribbled down last week about a Princeton graduate named Susan Patton who wrote a letter to her alma mater encouraging the young women to find husbands while in school. It did seem like the end of the world for many young feminists. It was followed up by an article in the Guardian by Keli Goff entitled: "Female Ivy League Graduates have a Duty to Stay in the Workplace".I have a George Gilder understanding of men that he shared with the world with his book "Men and Marriage", originally titled "Sexual Suicide". What makes a man a man? The answer has always been marriage and children. I see that some of the early reviews have hit upon these themes already. Something is hurting men besides the economy and that something is no commitment in marriage and no children that they are responsible for. So if men are losing whatever it is that would give them cause to fight it is no mystery that we see some feminization of men. Jer 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting, They have remained in their strongholds; Their might has failed, They became like women;What fascinates me about Hanna's book is the joy she emanates as she describes this female triumph. Mick Jagger cannot sing "Under my thumb" anymore and she sees the tables turning and if it costs her a few feminized boys, well that's the price of victory. To a certain extent women are fighting a destiny that was written a long time ago, and just maybe they are going to make the words not true. These are the words: Gen 3:16 To the woman He said: "I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you." Jewish commentators have filled books getting to the bottom of the words of this curse that God put on women from the days of the garden. The conclusion and it bears out for anyone with a pair of eyes, is that women's desire will always be to rule over the man, but ultimately the man will remain and be in charge.I am not sure a piece of paper from an educational institution and a mountain of student debt is exactly the paradise she believes it to be. She is right, as we move towards socialism many and most will find little niches in the government bureaucracies where they can faithfully pay back the government that lent them the money to be finally free from having a man work to support them while they bear children. What a deal, and you can keep working like that until you retire, maybe even picking up one of those feminized boys along the way to help you with housework. What a paradise!So if the women are beating this curse that God put on them and are finally able to call the shots in their relationships with men, what was the deal with the men. Even though Adam tried his best to blame Eve and God this is what came down: Gen 3:17-19 "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread." So the man's lot in life is work, work and more work. But, if the women are avoiding the curse by taking charge, aren't the men happily playing computer games at home while the women work, thus avoiding that whole sweat of the brow thing? Oh, if life were this easy where women get what they want, a paycheck and the authority that goes with it, and the men get what they want, just doing nothing. This is the kind of stuff enduring civilizations are built of.The reality is that life is tough and "two are better than one" and "a threefold cord is not quickly broken". We need each other in order to be whole and God's direction is still best. "Husbands love your wives" and "Wives submit to your husbands".

I think of sociology as fairly dry, but this book was entertaining. I felt that as I read this book, the author was explaining to me things that I had already observed and experienced in my own life, but which I had been unable to put into a narrative and thus understand.One of the key points of this book is that women are better geared towards the modern economy and that men need to adapt or get left behind. It is a problem that to date many men are making the decision not to adapt and to get left behind and I think that when I have children this book will influence how I would raise a son. A lot of things that I never thought important in socializing a kid (e.g. getting them to use words rather than use other ways of communicating) do develop good verbal and social skills that give you an edge in life. These things are social capital in the same way going to good schools is social capital.Another key point of the book is how women are so much more empowered within relationships, marriages, and the working world than they were 50 years ago. A woman who has her own income can easily leave a man who treats her poorly or who cheats on her. A woman without her own income, cannot leave her husband that easily. Likewise as women hit critical numbers in the corporate environment they have changed the working environment to make it more conducive to women. Sexual harassment is now a big no-no. Companies are implementing maternity leave policies, giving employees more flexible hours, and changing the way people communicate within offices due to female influence.