Analysis of The War on Men

            In the article, The war on men, Suzanne Venker argues that (to quoit her) “The battle of the sexes is alive and well.” she makes numerous statements as to how women have begun to take over the man’s work place.

“To say gender relations have changes dramatically is an understatement. Ever since the sexual revolution, there has been a profound overhaul in the way men and women interact. Men haven’t changed much- they have no revolution that demanded it- but women have changed dramatically.”

            Venker uses this line as to state that woman have really begun to change the way that women behave and the way that they see the world. She says that men haven’t changed much which is true but at the same time not so true. The attitude of men may have changed from the stereotypical middleclass male back in the 1950’s but other than style and attitude, the male population really has not changed. One quoit that I found interesting that she uses in the article is “Women aren’t women anymore.” The author uses the quoit after she asked the questions as to why people don’t want to get married anymore. Venker does not go on to explain the meaning behind the quoit so we don’t necessarily know what it means. To me it means that men don’t want to get married anymore because they are afraid that the woman has become too powerful.

            Another good quoit that I found was “All the articles and books (and television programs, for that matter) put women front and center, while men and children sit in the back seat. But after decades of browbeating the American male, men are tired. Tired of being told there’s something fundamentally wrong with them. Tired of being told that if women aren’t happy, its men’s fault” I found this quoit to be unsettling in a way. Yes we men are tired and kind of beat down and NO man that I know likes it when their woman is sad it’s the men’s fault. First off, I think anyone would be tired after being front and center for the past one hundred years. Also, not all articles and books put women front and center. Some do but not all. Of course, children “sit in the back seat” but men don’t. Men are normally up in the front seat with the woman. She may be driving but they are in the front seat.

            In conclusion, I am neither for not against this argument. It made points that I do believe to be true. Some of the points I liked and others I didn’t like. However, do I believe that women have gotten stronger in the workplace? Yes I do. Do I believe that they have kind of pushed men back? In some areas of work, yes they have. Do I think it needs to change? Absolutely not. People are who they are for a reason. Women have gone through thousands of years of being on the bottom of the work pile. If they want to be on top I say let them.