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Jack Kammer, Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly about
the Balance of Power Between the Sexes. (New York, NY: St.
Martin's Press, 1994)
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Those of you bummed out by Women Respond to the Men's Movement
will be pleased with this book. In Women Respond Laura
S. Brown, former president of our Washington State Psychological
Association, likens the men's movement to the rise of Hitler and
argues, in defiance of the statistics, that a man who kills his
wife will get manslaughter while a woman killing her spouse will
be convicted of murder. She demonstrates an ability to expound
passionately on topics about which she knows nothing, without
letting little things like facts or knowledge get in her way.
Jack Kammer, by contrast, has found a large number of thoughtful,
insightful women, including a former president of the National
Organization for Women, who offer encouragement and support to
men doing the inner work necessary to eventually bring the genders
together.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher points out that there is no anthropological
evidence for the utopian matriarchy pointed to by some feminists.
She points out that it is ridiculous for Naomi Wolf (The Beauty
Myth) to blame men for the fact that women have to remain
beautiful and thin all their lives, since the human female animal
instinctively seeks to look youthful, healthy and attractive.
Regarding sexual harassment, women need to be educated to the
kinds of signals they send. Laurie Ingraham, author of the forthcoming
Women's Prejudices Toward Men, speaks strongly against
sexism against men. Barbara Dority of the Northwest Feminist
Anti-Censorship Taskforce (NW-FACT) staunchly calls herself a
feminist and won't let others who won't recognize women's responsibilities
as well as rights regarding gender conflict.. A commander in the
Naval Reserve objects to "dummying down" requirements
so women can get ratings easily. Suzanne Steinmetz presents excellent
material from her research on domestic violence against men. Ruth
Shalit, reporter for The New Republic, puts a new spin on the
campus Take Back the Night movement, which she now opposes as
too extreme. An attorney talks about defending men falsely accused
of rape or child molesting, two of whom committed suicide. An
academic objects strongly to the politicization of academia.
The book also has interviews with Char Tosi, wife of the president
of the national New Warrior Network, and Elizabeth Herron, partner
of Aaron Kipnis, author of Knights Without Armor.
This is a powerful book, mainly because it's comforting to read
strong women who are saying the kinds of things that men are attacked
for saying. Yes, we do have friends out there.
Jack has created a Web site Good Will Toward Men devoted to this
book. Not only does it has excerpts, but it also has material
on resistance from the media to publishing and publicizing it.
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