What About Men?, Caitlin Moran
What About Men?, Caitlin Moran
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What About Men?
A Feminist Answers the Question

Author: Caitlin Moran

Narrator: Caitlin Moran

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestsellerWith her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society’s weirdly unasked question: What About Men?Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: “But what about men?” And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn’t need to worry about them.However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was “boycotting” International Women’ Day because “It's easier to be a woman than a man these days,” she started to wonder: are unhappy boys, and men, also making unhappy women? The statistics on male misery are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression, greater risk of suicide, and, most pertinently, are increasingly at risk from online misogynist radicalization. Will the Sixth Wave of feminism need to fix the men, if it wants to fix the women?Moran began to investigate—talking to her husband, close male friends, and her daughters' friends: bringing up very difficult and candid topics, and receiving vulnerable and honest responses. So: what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if their partner makes them? Why do they never discuss their penises with each other—but make endless jokes about their balls? What is porn doing for young men? Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have? Are men ever allowed to be sad? Are they ever allowed to lose? Have Men's Rights Activists confused “power” with “empowerment”? Are Mid-Life Crises actually quite cool? And what’s the deal with Jordan Peterson’s lobster?In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that “straight white man” doesn’t automatically mean bad news—but also uses the opportunity to make a lot of jokes about testicles, and trousers. Because if men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity for comedy, nor answered the question “What About Men?,” then it’s up to a busy woman to do it.

About Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran’s debut book, How to Be a Woman, was an instant New York Times bestseller, with more than one million copies distributed worldwide. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, received widespread acclaim, and she adapted it into a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein and Emma Thompson. As a twice-weekly columnist at The Times of London, Moran has won the British Society of Magazine Editors ""Columnist of the Year"" Award eight times. She lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jillian on August 30, 2024

I am so torn about what to say about this book because some parts were spectacular and others were kind of lame. Here’s the breakdown: What I liked: -Her takedowns of Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate were absolutely hilarious but also very astute. She points out the hollowness of Tate’s life, and how P......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on July 18, 2023

This is quite a difficult book to review and I have given it two stars because I think the general idea for the book comes from a place of kindness and good intention. However it is woefully under-researched and mainly based around Caitlin's opinion and that of her circle of friends and Twitter foll......more

Goodreads review by Tom on July 28, 2023

I admire her tackling the topic but the book's a bit crap.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on July 11, 2023

I've enjoyed Caitlin Moran's other writing but this one was a big disappointment. If you've read any of her other books then you are probably familiar with her style. I would sum it up as "Caitlin Moran writes about Caitlin Moran". Sometimes it's what Caitlin Moran does, sometimes it's about what Cai......more

Goodreads review by Steve on July 19, 2023

Caitlin Moran is sweary, scarily graphic, and beautifully insightful. As a repressed middle aged man I found the stuff on sex a bit (okay, a lot) too much but the stuff about gender roles, men's friendships (or lack thereof) and how men communicate were painfully spot on. Her takedowns of Jordan Pet......more