Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex

by Shmuley Boteach

Book Overview

From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women as brainless bimbos, or worse

Shmuley Boteach, the social commentator and outspoken relationship guru, shares his grave concerns about our society's growing contempt for women. Turn on the television: Reality TV shows such as The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060834153
• ISBN13: 9780060834159
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Why do women hate women?

This book is so true. Why is it that women are so upset with this book....with the truth. Every thing Shmuley says is so on target, women have given their power away and accepted being treated like sex objects. Just look at the entertainers girls idolize, they are strippers and behave like whores, all under the umbrella as being entertainers. Why do women fight against the message that we should demand respect and that we should stop dressing like whores and that we should stop seeing ourselves as nothing more than sexual objects. Until women start seeing themselves as beings that deserve respect men won't see us that way. I think Shmuley is brave to tell the truth.

Throw out all your other relationship books....

This is the one. After ending a long relationship twelve years ago, I was back in the dating game. After a couple of so-so short term relationships and hundreds of dates, I started to think there was something wrong with me, though in the back of my mind something seemed different about the men I was meeting compared to the men I dated even just a decade or two ago. I bought every relationship book out there, The Rules, Why Men Like Bitches, Mars and Venus, etc., but none of them have made me feel like this book has. This book has finally put into words for me what I've been feeling deep down inside for a long time. Although, I still feel like I may never meet a gentleman, I realize now that's it's not my fault. Most of the other relationship books seem to overtly or subtlety say we (women) need to change somehow to "get" a man. Now this is not a book about how we can "get" a man or is even that encouraging that we may ever meet a real gentleman, but it is a book that finally tells a woman that it's right to expect manners, respect and class from men and although it may be lonely, it's the only real spiritual way to go. Although, I've been dumped for women who will "put out right away", be willing to fight over a womanizer, and in general bend over backwards to attract and keep these creeps, I now feel, after reading this book, that it's ok. I'm better off not stooping to the level of these woman just to get a guy like that. Believe me, there have been many times that I felt tempted and wondered what was wrong with me, was I missing something. There are many woman willing to cross our picket lines, but I do believe as Rabbi Shmuley does, that they lose in the end anyway. In this one book I feel Rabbi Shmuley is giving me the advice that I never really received from my parents or anyone else. It will really change my life.

Not anti-men, not anti-women...try anti-media

A brilliant voice in this, addressing issues that have affected me, personally and generally. Boteach simply indicates that women are being held to next-to-impossible, fascist, beauty standards, and that the media has turned the image of women into that of giggly, bimbettes who dress like tramps and are expected to be one of The Boys' Club. He discusses the death/decline of chivalry and the gentleman due to a truely bizarre cultural acceptance of the frat-boy image. He indicates the constant pornographic images and slogans that bombard us via junk email, so much so that we've grown immune to it. Boteach even mentions that women are turning to other women for relationships because they're finding themselves unable to turn into that very image men are practically & subliminally forced to desire rather than what they really may want and actually need. I wish everyone would read this. It's an eye-opener.

Brilliant

If liberation equals taking off your clothes in front of a camera and acting stupid, why aren't men doing it too? Why aren't men feeling like they are being degraded and missing out? Because it's not liberation, it's degradation. Shmuley is brilliant. Women should read this book and look at the true meaning and stop being so stubborn. He is not at all wanting to push women into the dark ages, he wants society to hold us high based on our offerings of intellegence. He clearly states over and over that he thinks women are superior to men...how is that pushing us back? How is that degrading? I am a woman and I believe this book is a must read for all women. This book is deeply cherished by me. Thank you Shmuley for this book. You give a spark of hope for a better world for my 12 year old daughter. Good men do exist. P.S. We do not watch any TV in our home other than PBS kids. We do not go to the movies except for maybe twice a year to watch only a movie PG or under. Yes, we do have a life for those who are curious, just like people used to have a life before TV. It's possible.