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Title: The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women by Lionel Tiger ISBN: 0-312-26311-2 Publisher: Golden Books Adult Publishing Pub. Date: 02 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (29 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligent & thought-provoking -- must reading.
Comment: Lionel Tiger's insightful new book focuses on changes that are influencing virtually every facet of American society. It is no secret that, since the introduction of birth control, elemental patterns of dating, mating and sexuality have undergone a revolution. Gender barriers that seemed insurmountable two generations ago have greatly diminished if not vanished completely (in 1920, who would have thought that roughly half of Ivy League undergraduates would be women?) Not all the consequences of these changes have been expected or understood. Tiger forces us to confront many of them that have escaped previous analysis.

Some people, of course, would rather not think about the facts and issues that now confront us. To see how explosive Tiger's work can be, you need only read the outraged reaction of the Kirkus reviewer. It's not hard to see why highly ideological feminists, with a vested interest in ideas not facts, might be outraged by the book. But for the rest of us, The Decline of Males is must reading.

Rating: 5
Summary: Crouching Lion, leaping Tiger
Comment: Read this book again in the context of social change and ask why is it happening. LT documents many aspects of this issue and certainly does a good job focusing on bio-techincal issues but there is almost a sense of false cause here instead of wondering why both the technologies and the behaviors have developed. This book presents a stark argument and it feels right but why is it right? I think if we put this in the context of the wider issue of how societies react to environmental stresses we can view the decline of males (and the decline of females! since they are not reproducing either) as an example of our genes interacting with social behaviors to reduce our population. It is working in the developed countries. How do we get it to work everywhere?

Rating: 1
Summary: We are "men" not "males."
Comment: 100 years ago when Ernest Belfort Bax wrote against feminism, the term he used was "men bashing." Today's badly feminized men use a dehumanized language for ourselves, "male bashing." Even to use the phrase "male bashing," even when complaining about feminism, accepts and perpetuates the dehumanization men. We are "MEN" not some dehumanized animals, "males."

The title of "The Decline of Males" sums up the book. Tiger hasn't the testosterone to declare himself a MAN! Yes, he's right, MEN have declined, and he's an example. His conclusions that it's because of "the pill" are myopic. Birth control pills provided exclusively to women (Virtually no research was done on male pills during the 20th century.) is the result of the decline of men, not the cause. Yes, it's good for some MEN to speak out, but please, we are "MEN"!

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