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In Defense of Women
Product DescriptionOriginally published in 1922, this book considers topics that are of vital interest to readers today as monogamy and polygamy, prostitution, the double standard on sexual harassment, and declining birth and marriage rates. Written in no way characteristic of Mencken nonsense, In Defense of Women cracking controversial and caustic wit. . . . More>>
Posted by J. Michael on 08.03.10 at 7:09 am
In his inimitable style, the Sage of Baltimore incisive analysis of the relationship between the sexes and concludes that women are the superior sex. Before feminists get too excited, it should be noted that most people would probably regard the analysis of Mencken as a compliment both ways, because he does not praise the women for some kind of supernatural or the nobility, but their Nietzschean will to power, clear-eyed realism, Machiavellian calculation, lack of sentimentality, apathy and ethical. May men consider themselves superior because they have mastered one of the various trades idiot, such as trade policy in which women rarely Mencken time themselves, but fell in the battle where it counts, the Women end up the winner almost always defeated and enslaved the humans. Although certainly ironic, the book contains much truth, however bitter that she may be to cope. Rating: 5 / 5
Posted by Helen on 08.03.10 at 7:09 am
The first letters on the lines of too many pages do not print. A letter that I could guess, two letters is frustrant.Encore glad I got it. A book written in the day my mother and grandmother. Some things change, some things do not go. Rating: 3 / 5
Posted by Keith Otis Edwards on 08.03.10 at 7:09 am
I have read many accounts (including the Journal of the Society Mencken) who assume that Mencken was ironic in the pages of this book, but I am pleased and relieved to see that other reviewers got it right here. The omniscient Mr. Mencken observed that men simply are never bamboozled by femmes.Mais there is a wide variety of Mencken wisdom on tap in this slim volume – such as, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence noisy to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. “(page 53 of the 1926 edition) Rating: 5 / 5
Posted by B. Smith on 08.03.10 at 7:09 am
This review covers the printing of the paperback edition, 2009, and not the content of the book itself, which is exceptional. Printing in this edition is absolutely disgusting, there are two lines of words, there are random letters that do not belong, words meet by chance, etc. A particularly bad example is on page 31: ” It is, in fact, not until the woman finally has a. beyond hope – |-T-nm nflimi, marriage or. alalla jrilitythat it may have tajl. Q.. (L soon. Prelate Jthat sheJtfliekles seriously reduced. whatever gear it carries, and made a genuineeffort / f) i todevelop competence. “Mistakes like this happens throughout the book. Do not buy this edition . Rating: 1 / 5
Posted by Michael Lewyn on 08.03.10 at 7:09 am
Mencken wrote that “Nothing could be clearer than the fact that increasing the economic security of women is having their Havit whole life … The marriage rate and lower rates even more rapidly diminishing birth show which way the wind blows .. . Many of them [women] Today, the business process [of marriage] with delicacy, much as their grandmothers. “So, therefore, only men are qualified with respect to marriage and lower-class men happen. But in the past” even marriage with a man from the fifth order was better than no marriage at all. “Mencken also correctly predicted that even after the influx of women into the workplace, women are still lagging behind men in economic terms: he writes that “it is impossible to imagine a true understanding of man, becoming a trial counsel competent worker or a buttonhole, or a newspaper sub-editor, or piano tuner, or house painter. Women, to get on all fours with men in such occupations stupid to be spiritual suicide, which is much farther than they will ever go into reality. Thus, a shadow of their present superiority to men will always remaijn, and with it a hint of their relative inefficiency, if the marriage remain attractive. “Mencken also predicts relaxed sexual mores:” With the decline of the ancient concept of women as property, it must come inevitably a reconsideration of the issue of gender as a whole. “And of course all these things came to go, America and Europe: women and workers to marry later or not at all and soon divorced, and low-income women have virtually abandoned the marriage just fait.Mencken works only failed when he looks at the war and peace. He correctly predicted the Second World War (especially the anticipation of war between France and Germany, and between Japan and America) but thought it would be so devastating, and erase many men in the world, that women are significantly more likely than men, which in turn radically alter the marriage, perhaps causing the restoration of polygamy. Had WW 2 as WW 1, killed only soldiers, Mencken might have been right. Instead, of course, millions of civilians have been killed, including many women, thus limiting the male / female déséquilibre.Rating: 5 / 5