New Book Coming on Our Culture

For John, BLUF:  Are men on strike?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

The Instapunidt, Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds, is flacking this book, to be published 18 June of this year.  The author is his wife, Ms Helen Smith, a PhD forensic psychologist, and the title is Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream - and Why It Matters.  While you can pre-order the hardback from Amazon, the Kindle is still to appear.  From Amazon we have this description:

American society has become anti-male.  Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going “on strike.”  They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates.  The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this “man-child” phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can.  But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them?

As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development.  They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers.  In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century.  Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

I see this as taking a more helpful approach to the problem.  We, as humans, respond to stimuli around us and this book appears to track down what stimuli are changing the way males in our society are reacting.  There are long term issues for our consideration.  I am looking forward to reading this book.

Regards  —  Cliff