Stiffed
by Susan Faludi · first published 1999
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"In Stiffed, Susan Faludi turns her powers of reporting and analysis to the problems of men and comes up with a revolutionary diagnosis. Men's problems aren't the product of biology, or of such trumped-up enemies as feminism and affirmative action, but of a modern social tragedy. By listening to men's stories in their own voices, by taking them on their own terms, Faludi uncovers a buried history - the untold story of how America made a glittering set of promises to the men of the baby-boom generation...and proceeded to break every one of them."--BOOK JACKET. "What keeps men from revolting a
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Another good resource for this would be Stiffed by Susan Faludi ( https://susanfaludi.com/stiffed.html ) . Similarly, she started off saying "why are guys resisting the women's movement?" and that lead her to some great insights about the situation…
on “Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It” ↗…and just as true. How everything depends on the sins of humanity. If we were all virtuous, economies would fall apart etc. Goes in detail into this argument and he's hard to argue with. Susan Faludi's STIFFED. I learnt so much about modern work, life, society, and being a man from this. A must read. p.s. and everything by JK Galbraith and C Wright Mills. Good luck!
on “Ask HN: What are some deep, mentality changing books?” ↗…enough men in media (movies, advertising, etc.) portrayed as valuable members of society through avenues other than what the traditional measures of success dictate. For further reading, I recommend "Stiffed" by Faludi and "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love" by hooks. I've been looking for a good book about men written by men, but I have not yet found one that incorporates the most basic lessons…
on “Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing” ↗…me to ancient Chinese writers, poets and the Chinese way of life. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - read it when I was 14, and I was into music, art and programming, so it blew my mind. Susan Faludi, STIFFED - men, work, jobs, masculinity, 20th C Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion - media, war, propaganda, democracy Noam Chomsky's political books E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful - the world, development,…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?” ↗…Austin Kleon books, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, Tristine Rainer The New Diary, Ben Zander The Art of Possibility, Gracian's The Art of Wordly Wisdom. Montaigne. Plutarch. Emerson. Susan Faludi's Stiffed may help you understand yourself, your world, your work, your life better than any of these. Good luck! To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde
on “Ask HN: Is it possible to escape mediocrity?” ↗This question reminds me of the excellent book STIFFED: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi. It's about work, what it is to be a man, how these things are changing and have changed, say in the 2nd half of 20th C. One of the most enlightening…
on “Can you tell someone what you did today?” ↗I'm going to add that Susan Faludi wrote about "Backlash" in 1991 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlash:_The_Undeclared_War_A... and she wrote "Stiffed" about the problem of men in 1999, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiffed:_The_Betrayal_of_the_A... There is a case study in that second book about Stanley, a brand that represented masculinity and…
on “PG: SV cooled on Democrats due to Wokeness and Warren appointees” ↗…difficult to think of any field more forcibly disentangled from any sort of understanding of the impact of your labor than the majority of positions in tech. This is discussed in some detail in the book "Stiffed" by Susan Faludi. She discusses the community nature of the naval shipyards, in which everyone apparently was connected meaningfully to their work and the workers around them. She contrasts that with…
on “Cottagecore Programmers” ↗