House of Eratosthenes

Trust me on this. I would have parted with some decent coin, in the days and months following my divorce, to explore the subject of women who hate men. I’d have gone out of my way to get ahold of whatever information I could, in whatever way I could find it. So I hope no one’s gearing up to tell me there’s nothing being published on the subject because there’s a lack of discernible interest in it.

Quite to the contrary — the interest is high and it oughtta be a whole lot higher. Name a societal problem, and a durable, convincing argument can be constructed that the problem started with women who hate, or hated, men. It is the one human vice we have made no efforts to stigmatize or restrain whatsoever.

Nothing’s available on it? Nothing? Is this something where lots is being written, but the publishers are saying no? Or is nothing being written?

If there was a market for it, someone would write it and it would be published. But we’ve been through a couple of generations where the dominant theme was that men were scum. Plenty of books were published about that.

It could also be that men have a very short attention span when it comes to relationship analysis.
- Gordon | 08/03/2009 @ 22:07
That’s certainly true. I didn’t give a rip about it until it cost me some dough, and that’s probably true of most of us.
- mkfreeberg | 08/03/2009 @ 22:19
Or maybe, just maybe, Morgan just found his meal ticket.

Write on, McDuff!
- philmon | 08/04/2009 @ 06:33
Ah…that would require further research. And I am permanently retired from dealing with that layer of society.

Permanently.

I want no contact with the man-hating bitches ever again. Ever. Again. Don’t wanna see ’em, don’t wanna be near ’em. You don’t think I hang out at Hooters just to stare at pretty girls young enough to be my daughter, do ya? No, I am a separatist; I want to be separate from…those…hideous…people. Done my time.

Other than that, the meal ticket idea is a pretty decent one. Maybe I should give some thought into hiring a research assistant. A buffer. Firewall.
- mkfreeberg | 08/04/2009 @ 07:01
Hm. I’d bet you don’t have to meet any of the MHBs at all. Every man has met one or two, at least, and has the scars to show for it. I’d bet there’s enough anecdotal tales out there to flesh out a couple of volumes. Best of all, that’s typical of feminist scholarship, so you might even get a tenured position!

Well, maybe not the last part.

What would happen is that the book would sell 10 to 1 to women. Just imagine the book signings! Hundreds of gals lined up to prove that they’re not MHBs!
- Gordon | 08/04/2009 @ 09:00
I saw a comic strip once about a new dad who somehow managed to snag a manly-looking diaper bag. It had the appearance of being made out of a re-recycled paper bag held together with duct tape, and it had THIS IS NOT A PURSE stenciled on each side.

Maybe two great ideas, melded into one. The book could be in hardcover with a paper-bag-duct-tape pattern to the slip cover, with “THIS IS NOT A RELATIONSHIP BOOK” patterned around the edges, in a smaller font. Maybe in something that looks like “POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS” tape.

Ooh! You know what would be great? If every odd-numbered chapter was about avoiding MHBs and teaching your son to do the same…and every even-numbered one was a marinade sauce or dry rub recipe.

Inspiration…
- mkfreeberg | 08/04/2009 @ 09:47
You’ve got an idea here. Do you have an agent? Find one, knock out a couple of sample chapters, and you should be able to get a deal. I’d bet you could get Daphne to contribute a chapter.

I’ll be happy to supply my rub recipe. It’s not a state secret.
- Gordon | 08/04/2009 @ 10:27
And I am permanently retired from dealing with that layer of society.

Heh. You’re a piker in this department, Good Sir. If you want a few pointers on the art of being “permanently retired” in this space, c’mon down. Bring beer. I have the cigars. And when the going gets good we’ll break out the single-malt. 😉
- bpenni | 08/04/2009 @ 13:38
Oh… and by the way… you were just searching on the wrong term. 312 books come up. Now that’s admittedly a fraction of the percentage of books about men who hate women… but there ya go. One area is a theology… not to mention an industry… the other is just a niche. But it DOES exist.

There goes your meal ticket. But all is not lost… you could be better than the others. 😉
- bpenni | 08/04/2009 @ 23:07

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