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Health Communications, Inc. Brews a Toxic Chicken Soup for the Misandrist Soul
Mancott them !!
Steve Biddolph, Australian author of the best-seller Manhood, has suggested that "mancott" is bigger and more mature than "boycott."
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Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS BREWS A TOXIC CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE MISANDRIST SOUL The publishing industry reached a new low in male-bashing at last week's World Book Expo, with Health Communications, Inc.'s announcement of a new book LET'S FACE IT, MEN ARE @$$#%\$$!, according to Bert H. Hoff, WebMaster of MenWeb and editor/publisher of Men's Voices Journal. "Health Communications, Inc., publisher of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, now has brewed a toxic chicken soup for the misandrist soul. Toxic Communications, Inc., I call them," says Hoff, WebMaster of a site that celebrates healthy masculinity and personal growth. "It's a shame that a publisher known for its male-positive focus on recovery, therapy, healing and personal and spiritual growth has decided to cash in on the male-bashing market." "This latest book from Toxic Communications puts women on the Victim Pedestal and puts all the 'shame and blame' for failed relationships on men," says Hoff. The promotional blurb for the book says: "If they [women] decide to leave, the book provides practical steps to take and a Certified Asshole Award that they can present to the men they've had the displeasure of knowing." They should keep plenty of these certificates for themselves, Hoff quips. The authors, Barry L Duncan and Joseph W. Rock, who present themselves as psychotherapists, published a little-noticed and quickly-forgotten book in 1991, Overcoming Relationship Impasses : Ways to Initiate Change When Your Partner Won't Help (Insight Press). "I guess they decided to slap a new male-bashing cover on it and make a mint," Hoff speculated. MenWeb has launched a global boycott of Toxic Communications, Inc., promoted through MenWeb and men's organizations around the globe. "Publishers publish books like Men are Not Cost-Effective and Toxic Communications' e LET'S FACE IT, MEN ARE @$$#%\$$! to chase the bucks," says Hoff. "Every man who purchases John Lee's classic Flying Boy or Jim Sneichowski and Judith' Serven's ground-breaking male-positive The New Intimacy supports Toxic Communications in spreading their toxic misandry, sad to say." MenWeb has sent the following letter to Toxic Communications, Inc.: Publicity Department Dear Misandrists, I am writing you to inform you of the steps that MenWeb has take, and will take, to counteract the "shame and blame" toxic message that your house, formerly highly-regarded for its work in recovery, therapy, healing and personal growth, is seeking to profit from. LET'S FACE IT, MEN ARE @$$#%\$$! : What Women Can Do About It The book comes complete with what your promotional blurb describes as a "Certified Asshole Award" for women leaving relationships to present on the way out. Be sure to take one for yourself. I never use such vile language in my own public communications, but since it is Toxic Communications, Inc.’s house policy to use it, you well deserve it. MenWeb is one of the top men’s sites on the Web. A comprehensive, eclectic site, it’s been mentioned in stories in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, L.A. Times, San Francisco Guardian and other papers. Our mission is to help men find their voices and speak their Truths. To celebrate healthy masculinity. We’re not a "Men’s Rights" site. We focus mainly on men’s physical, emotional and spiritual health—therapy, recovery, healing, personal growth and self-improvement are major foci for us, just as they were for Toxic Communications, Inc. We’ve won the Mental Health Net 3-Star Award (highest for a men’s site) for both MenWeb and the MenWeb sub-site for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. We are not a "million hits a day" site, but every day hundreds of men will see our words about Toxic Communications, Inc. MenWeb has launched a major campaign that Toxic Communications, Inc. just doesn’t "get it," and has nothing to offer for men in recovery or men inter4ested in personal growth. We do this with a great degree of sadness, since John Lee’s Flying Boy is a "Men’s Work" classic and Jim Sniechowski and Jude Sherven’s The New Intimacy, formerly heavily promoted on MenWeb, is a ground-breaking male-positive book on relationships. Here’s what we’ve already done:
Here’s what we will do:
Sincerely, and in the interest of celebrating healthy masculinity, Bert H. Hoff Misandry, as defined by Patrick Arnold in Wildmen, Warriors and Kings, is the "hatred of men. 1: the attribution of negative qualities to the entire male gender. 2: the claim that masculinity is the source of human vices such as domination, violence, oppression and racism. 3: a sexist assumption that (a) male genes, hormones and physiology, or (b) male cultural conditioning produces war, rape, and physical abuse. 4: the assignment of blame solely to men for humanity's historic evils without including women's responsibility or giving men credit for civilization's achievements. 5: the assumption that any male person is probably dominating, oppressive, violent, sexually abusive, and spiritually immature." ###
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