Boys Will Be Boys

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Boys Will Be Boys

By: Clementine Ford

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The incendiary new audiobook about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto Fight Like a Girl.

Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her own, it is a question that haunts her, too.

How does a feminist raise a son in a world that conditions boys into entitlement, privilege and power at the expense not just of girls' humanity but also their own? All boys start innocent, but by the time they are adolescents many of them will subscribe to a view of masculinity that is openly contemptuous of women and girls. This explosive new work will look at toxic masculinity and the closed ranks of brotherhood that shape an entitled, disrespectful and potentially dangerous idea of manhood.

In Boys Will Be Boys, best-selling and groundbreaking author of Fight Like a Girl Clementine Ford dismantles the age-old idea that entitlement, aggression and toxicity are natural realms for boys and reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls.

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Clementine Ford’s book, boys will be boys, is an incoherent shambling mess of political gibberish, founded upon the premises of politically inspired paranoia and misinformation, fueled entirely by red cordial. However, with that said, the book is a rather good book, should you desire an example of everything wrong with modern gender politics. For that reason, i give this a solid five stars.

This book is her world view, laid out as a love letter to her young male child. A detailed, deeply flawed perspective of the world. But a revealing look into her mind, nevertheless. A mind consumed by concern and anxiety, which is laid bare for all to read. Contradicted by her declarations that this book is not designed to set a negative message against men. If one were to remove the initial comment at the start of the introduction which proclaims this, leaving all other variables the same, it would be a difficult case to make. While i can recall many examples, every chapter, where men are the cause of some social ill, i cannot recall a single one where men are viewed in anything close to a neutral light, let alone positive. Hence the previous statement, this is a great example of everything wrong with gender politics.

Not to toss shade at Clementine, she obviously put a lot of work into this project. Something which should be respected. its not her fault for these myopic positions, any more than similar six day creationists at the local baptist church. She has come to a conclusion, despite any other more grounded reasons. Without any desire to improve or adapt, this is who she is. Take it or leave it, spotlight it as i intend to do so, but never attempt to burn it.

I have purchased both the audio book and the physical copy. I can safely say that the narration by Clementine adds a certain something to this project that the physical book cannot. My physical copy currently occupies a place on my pseudoscience and religion book shelf, right next to Bell Hooks, Feminism is for Everybody. I knew i was in for a wild ride the moment Clementine referenced Bell Hooks. Oh boy, that did not disappoint.

Given this book's political nature, in exactly the same context as any Creation Ministries book, you either love it because you uncritically agree with the politics within, and have done so for years, or you see it as something else less praise worthy. Regardless, i would encourage everyone to read the book. Again, its resources like this that should be put on a pedestal. Not as some divine revealed truth that we should teach to children as a positive role model. But as a cautionary tale heralding from old German folk lore, as a negative role model to children so they understand what not to do.