Is There Anything Good About Men?

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You’re probably thinking that a talk called "Is there anything good about men" will be a short talk! Recent writings have not had much good to say about men. Titles like "Men Are Not Cost Effective" speak for themselves. Maureen Dowd’s book was called "Are Men Necessary?" and although she never gave an explicit answer, anyone reading the book knows her answer was no. Brizendine’s book "The Female Brain" introduces itself by saying, "Men, get ready to experience brain envy." Imagine a book advertising itself by saying that women will soon be envying the superior male brain!

Nor are these isolated examples. Eagly’s research has compiled mountains of data on the stereotypes people have about men and women, which the researchers summarized as "The WAW effect." WAW stands for "Women Are Wonderful." Both men and women hold much more favorable views of women than of men. Almost everybody likes women better than men. I certainly do.

Comments

[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Where before it was abnormal to see a successful woman, now its abnormal to see only successful men.

Heh.

You should take my challenge... do you honestly think that media today is 'fair' to men?

I've been watching the show 'weeds' on DVD recently and while I love the show, it's amazing to me how such a show would be viewed if even ONE of the women were as idiotic as most of the men on that show... and the sex scenes where with the brother in law? NEVER happen.

[geminiwench.livejournal.com]

Sex scenes WITH the brother in law? Lead lady never slept with brother in law. (I have the worst time with character names)

The blonde neighbor is QUITE idiotic. She's savvy, but not terribly smart. She spends her time making bad decisions for herself, bad decisions for the neighborhood and bad decisions for any individual she can get her hands on.

The only idiotic men are really Kevin Nealon, who is still portrayed as smart and capable, although occasionally ineffectual... and the brother in law, who is just a doofus. Brother in law's former girlfriend (the hippie who let the youngest son come on her roadtrip last season) was also a completely insane doofus, by the way.