Some Ideas for Your War On Christmas Shopping
In the 2005 Christmas Book Gift Guide, National Review Online offers their yearly suggestions on what to wrap up for Grandma, little Bobby and Suzy, your boss, your mistress, Dick Cheney, etc. And as usual, they suggest books about the history of war, books that bash liberals, and obscure "classics" that prove just how educated and cultured the people making the suggestions are. (BTW, you can pick up all these kinds of books very cheaply in remaindered bins, at thrift stores, and in land fills, which does make them perfect gift-giving choices.)
To me, the most intriguing was this book by the NRO's own Kate O'Beirne:
Not only am I giving this book to grandma, little Bobby and Suzy, etc,. but I'm also buying a copy for Baby Jesus, because I'm sure he loves this kind of thing.
Here's part of the publisher's description from the Amazon.com listing:
As a woman, Kate O’Beirne can say things a male commentator could never get away with.
Thank heavens the Equal Rights Amendment never passed, or Kate couldn't get away with this kind of thing!
In her long-awaited first book, she takes on America’s leading feminists—including Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Smeal, Maureen Dowd, Kate Michelman, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and even Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw. She confronts them with hard evidence of how women like them have done more harm than good over the last four decades.
I'm sure that uber-feminists Hillary Clinton, Maureen Dowd, Carrie Bradshaw, etc. will be properly chastened when they learn of how they've been found wanting in the "doing good" department.
O’Beirne is all for women’s equality and celebrates the unprecedented opportunities they enjoy today. But she faults those feminists who believe that a hostile patriarchy reigns and that women remain its helpless victims. Their agenda is not profemale; it’s merely antimale.
Women Who Make the World Worse shows how their destructive handiwork can be felt in every corner of American life, including:
• fractured families and dispensable dads
• offices and schools that have become battlegrounds in the gender wars
• military units that put lives at risk to promote social engineering
So, Kate is all for women's equality, as long as it doesn't involve women getting divorces, women having jobs, or women in the military.
This is a provocative book that will appeal to anyone, male or female, who wants some old-fashioned common sense about relations between the sexes.
And that's why I'm giving it to Grandma, little Billy and Suzy, baby Jesus, etc.
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