![]() In anticipation of our meeting with Lionel Tiger, I’m currently working my way through his book, The Decline of Males. I’m only 66 pages in right now, but here’s three things he’s said so far. Not saying that we agree or disagree, but I thought I’d provide an insight into the man we’re going to interview: - “Men have been decreasingly successful in the labor force. Partly for that reason, many have been “fired” as potentially useful fathers by women who expect that as mates they will be a burden, not a help. They will consume resources, not bring them in.” pg 20 - “... if only the woman has the facts about her fertility, if only she knows the possible outcomes of the episode, what happens to a man’s sense of power, to his sense of function, to his sense of responsibility? If knowledge is power, what is uncertainty? What is ignorance?” pg 35 - “When [Margaret Mead] reviewed my Men in Groups ... she complained that I had failed to provide a physiological correlate of male bonding. That was why the rituals of male bonding had to be so intense. As sociologist David Popenoe of Rutgers University has commented, ‘Men are not biologically as attuned to being committed fathers as women are to being committed mothers. Left culturally unregulated, men’s sexual behavior can be promiscuous, their paternity casual, their commitment to families weak.’” pg 57 Whew. It’s an intense book to say the least. Would love to hear what people think about this!
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Rae
5/22/2013 12:57:54 pm
Awww this is getting political!
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