A review by Helen Smith, the Insta-Wife, of Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men which for some women is apparently something to hope for. From the review:

One reason I suggest in my book for men’s negative attitudes towards marriage, women and the society is the denigrating and damaging way that boys and young men are treated in our culture and a book with a title like this sure doesn’t help. To her credit, Rosin at least offers up a lame explanation to Jacob [that is, to Rosin’s young son who is affronted by his mother’s book title] that ‘I want to convince people that some men out there need our help, since it’s not so easy for them to ask for it. ‘He doesn’t quite believe me yet, but maybe one day he will.’ Yet as I read the pages of her book, I am not sure what type of help she thinks men need and as Christina Hoff Summers said to me about men’s centers that try to convince men to be more like woman: ‘I don’t think that’s the kind of help men want.’

It’s bad news all round but at least there is a rear guard that is trying to turn this around. For the record, the question Rosin’s son asked his mother was: “Mommy, Why Would You Write a Book with Such a Mean Title?” I don’t really think there is any good reason myself. The comments at the end of the review are also worth a read.

It might also be noted that Smith is writing her own book on these issues but from a very different direction. Her title is, Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matter.