"The War Against Women"

-by Marilyn French
1992
Heb: whore - She who goes out of the house.
No matter your gender, if you've never understood what feminists are so upset about, this is the place to start. If you feel you live in a world of equality, i applaud the fact that you've been raised in a relatively progressive (or hopelessly sheltered) environment. But if you have any kind of human empathy, this book will enrage and mortify you. A small handful of points might not stand up to total scrutiny, and statistical updates would be illuminating, but the overpowering flip side is that the comprehensive numbers needed for a study of this scope are still mostly unavailable, covered up under the culturally-enforced silence of the subjugated, raped, battered, and dead. But french's insights are sharp, and her statistics scathing. One such? On tests of fearfulness, the least fearful subgroup of women (the young) scored the same as the most fearful group of men (the old). The fact that something unspeakably, systematically horrific is happening before our eyes, and that we are still generations away (at best) from making things right, i invite anyone to read this book and deny. A staggering achievement.