Tied Up in Knots, Andrea Tantaros
Tied Up in Knots, Andrea Tantaros
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Tied Up in Knots
How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable

Author: Andrea Tantaros

Narrator: Andrea Tantaros

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/26/2016


Synopsis

Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended pitfalls of that power trade have made women (and men!) miserable.In a covetous quest to attain the power that men had, women were advised to work like men, talk like men, party like men, and have sex like men.  There’s just one problem: women aren’t men. Instead of feeling happy with their newfound freedoms, females today are tied up in knots, trying to strike a balance between their natural, feminine and traditional desires and what modern society dictates—and demands—through the commandments of feminism. Revealing the mass confusion this has caused among both sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness they were told they'd gain from their new opportunities. The pressure both to have it all and to put forth the perfectly post-worthy, filtered life for social media and society at large has left women feeling twisted. I Meanwhile, in their rightful quest for equality, women have promoted themselves at the expense of their male counterparts, leaving both genders frayed and frustrated. In this candid and humorous romp through the American cultural landscape, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect in the office - where women earned it - made them stop demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love lives. The impact of this power trade has been felt in every way, from sex to salaries, to dating and marriage, to fertility and female friendships, to the personal details they share with each other.  As a result, we've lost the traditional virtues and values that we all want, regardless of our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect, discretion, and above all commitment. With scathing wit -- and insights born of personal experience -- Tantaros explores how women have taken guys off the hook in dating (much to their own detriment) and exposes how we’ve become a nation averse to intimacy and preoccupied with porn, one that has traded kindness for control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy.  Sorry romance. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over the telephone have been supplanted by the "belfie."  All this indicates a culture that's devolving, not evolving.  And it’s only getting worse. Tied Up in Knots is a no-holds-barred gut check for the sexes and a wake-up call for a society that has decayed -- faster than anyone thought possible.  It’s time to remember what we all really want out of work, love and life. Only then can we finally begin untying those knots.

About Andrea Tantaros

Andrea Tantaros is one of the most popular stars on the Fox News Channel, where she cohosts one of television's hottest ensemble shows, Outnumbered, weekdays at noon, and serves as a host, political analyst, and columnist for the network. She has served in senior communications roles on a number of high-profile political campaigns on Capitol Hill and in corporate America, and is a former columnist for the New York Daily News. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cristine on March 09, 2017

This book is not what it proclaimed to be in the synopsis and some of the issues weren't even mentioned. It was more of a whine about how men just want to have sex and all women are just dying to be married and of course she blames feminism for this. I think she is projecting her own issues because......more

Goodreads review by Christina on June 03, 2016

This book is intelligent and thought provoking. Andrea is very much a no-nonsense person and you can really see her personality through her writing. The reason why I only gave it three stars was because I felt like the book was s little bit "all over the place" and also kinda felt like it was more o......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 01, 2017

Andrea Tantaros's commentary about the modern woman is both insightful and a breath of fresh air. As a woman in my late twenties, the arguments presented in this book hit home for me. I grew up with a conservative family and was taught the same values. In today's society this upbringing isn't very p......more

Goodreads review by Danny Baldwin on May 31, 2016

Women today are freer than ever to choose what to do with their lives in many realms in which women of the 30s, 40s and 50s could not even imagine, and it does come along with the liberties achieved by the hard work of activists and women rights warriors. It's because of such great women, today's wo......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on December 31, 2017

I was surprised that I liked this book, given that I'm a Democrat and Tantaros has said some stunningly awful things on Fox News. But I don't think she is wrong that feminism has been a mixed bag of blessings. She is certainly right that women often treat other women atrociously in the workplace and......more