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Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus
A hilarious romp by a popular conservative columnist Ìý
The four most common words a feminist uses are "I," "me," "my," and "mine." Feminists are the only people who actually use these words more in adulthood than they did when they were two years old. Ìý
Mike Adams-like P. J. O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley-understands that the best way to fight humorless liberals is to poke fun at them. And no liberal group is more humorless, or more in need of poking, than feminists on college campuses.Ìý
It might seem like professional suicide for a conservative male professor to ridicule feminists for their antics on campus. But Adams does just that, with hilarious results. InÌý Feminists Say the Darndest Things , he writes to feminists around the country with many thoughtful questions, such When the author's pen pals take the bait, they do a better job of making feminism look silly than any critic ever could.
The four most common words a feminist uses are "I," "me," "my," and "mine." Feminists are the only people who actually use these words more in adulthood than they did when they were two years old. Ìý
Mike Adams-like P. J. O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley-understands that the best way to fight humorless liberals is to poke fun at them. And no liberal group is more humorless, or more in need of poking, than feminists on college campuses.Ìý
It might seem like professional suicide for a conservative male professor to ridicule feminists for their antics on campus. But Adams does just that, with hilarious results. InÌý Feminists Say the Darndest Things , he writes to feminists around the country with many thoughtful questions, such When the author's pen pals take the bait, they do a better job of making feminism look silly than any critic ever could.
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224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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August 7, 2013Fact: In the time it took to read through this book's introduction 2 women were sexually assaulted in the United States. Haha! Better bust out some hilarious rape jokes, Mike Adams! Did you know that once he dressed up in a burqa holding a sign saying that he wanted to be raped! Isn't that just the biggest hoot in the world (I bet it's especially funny to the 1 in 6 American women who have actually been raped in their lifetimes)!
Fact: 1/10 high school students have an eating disorder and the large majority of people with eating disorders are young women aged 12-25. 81 percent of 10-year-olds are worried about being too fat. Mike Adams' response? Exercise fatties! Haha, it's okay, he's just joking!
This is really a perfect example of conservative humor at its best/worst. It's not witty or clever, it's not insightful, it's not well-written... it's just vicious and mean. He calls feminists stupid, is staggeringly upset at the idea of women demanding ownership of their bodies (again, remember that 1 in 6 American women have been the victims of rape)... we get it dude, you don't like women.
Although, truth be told, this kind of ugly misogynist Republican humor shouldn't really be a surprise given the fact that the Republican rape clock () probably will never get to 10 days.
Fact: 1/10 high school students have an eating disorder and the large majority of people with eating disorders are young women aged 12-25. 81 percent of 10-year-olds are worried about being too fat. Mike Adams' response? Exercise fatties! Haha, it's okay, he's just joking!
This is really a perfect example of conservative humor at its best/worst. It's not witty or clever, it's not insightful, it's not well-written... it's just vicious and mean. He calls feminists stupid, is staggeringly upset at the idea of women demanding ownership of their bodies (again, remember that 1 in 6 American women have been the victims of rape)... we get it dude, you don't like women.
Although, truth be told, this kind of ugly misogynist Republican humor shouldn't really be a surprise given the fact that the Republican rape clock () probably will never get to 10 days.
March 12, 2011
In what reminded me strongly of the "Screwtape Letters," Dr. Mike Adams takes on the feminists he works with and observes in a riotous reuse of their own words & rhetoric. Drawing on his personal experiences and run-ins with his colleges and female students at the UNC campus where he is a PhD in Criminology, this book consists of letter after letter of things he has said or would like to say outloud, and each letter is followed up with what happened after the letter was sent (or an explanation as to why it was not. Like, Dr. Adams sued Dr. So-and-So the following day, so this letter was lost in the mail.)
Adams is spot on with his observations about the feminist academia, and why, sympathize as I might, I just can't step into the feminist realm. Every academic, every feminist leader I see interviewed as a "voice of women," and every law passed to "protect women" just reaffirms to me, I have no place among these women, not politically, not ideologically, and not even culturally. It seems more government, more lawsuits, more thought policing, & generally more matriarchy is always the answer. It feels much worse than patriarchy ever wanted to be; it feels like there is less freedom to be had among their ranks, not more. No, thank you.
P.S. I laughed out loud SO much, and was actually shaking at times trying to hold in laughter while reading in bed next to my slumbering spouse. Adams is sharp witted and fast to strike on the humor in situations.
Adams is spot on with his observations about the feminist academia, and why, sympathize as I might, I just can't step into the feminist realm. Every academic, every feminist leader I see interviewed as a "voice of women," and every law passed to "protect women" just reaffirms to me, I have no place among these women, not politically, not ideologically, and not even culturally. It seems more government, more lawsuits, more thought policing, & generally more matriarchy is always the answer. It feels much worse than patriarchy ever wanted to be; it feels like there is less freedom to be had among their ranks, not more. No, thank you.
P.S. I laughed out loud SO much, and was actually shaking at times trying to hold in laughter while reading in bed next to my slumbering spouse. Adams is sharp witted and fast to strike on the humor in situations.
February 3, 2012
Excellent book, a must for all conservatives to read. How Mike Adams deals with the ultra liberal idiocy of the other faculty on the staff of the university for which he works.
October 11, 2014
Sorry Mike Adams
Okay, let me clarify that I do not often identify as a feminist mostly because I often feel alienated by the issues that seem to have become the flagship for women's rights, abortion and birth control. I'm tired of talking about birth control, especially when polls show that the economy is the number one concern for female voters. Just because I have a uterus doesn't mean that it's all I think about and plus I'm just not that into vagina pride.
Plus I've been told that I'm anti-woman at various times in my life like when I 'married young' (I don't consider 23 to be marrying young but okay) or when I chose to become a librarian (why am I reinforcing stereotypes? Seriously? It's what I want to do get off my back). These encounters have made me hesitant to call myself a feminist because even though I believe in equal rights and fair treatment and ending female infanticide and stopping the objectification of women, by the liberal definition I'm still not a feminist.
Which is really a shame because I think that outside of reproductive issues, I am a feminist.
I was hoping this book would address the fact that most women feel like they don't belong with the often fanatical face of feminism. I was hoping it would be a humorous account of liberal hypocrisy. Mostly I was hoping Mike Adams wouldn't be such an ass, but that is definitely how he comes across.
This book has absolutely no merit or value It's not informative, thought provoking, or entertaining. This is non-fiction? I find that hard to believe. There are several details that come off as being very one-sided, exaggerated, or possibly just made up. For example, Adams is having trouble with a feminist co-worker and his non-feminist secretary explains to him that his 'penis is too big' for the feminist, that's why she doesn't like him.
Also, the letter format is stupid, I guess he is trying to make it more believable as a piece of non-fiction? What he should have done is take his introduction with it's various points, do some actual fricken research, and then add a few anecdotes. Then maybe he would have produced something that is worth reading, instead of this boring whining drivel that adds nothing constructive or helpful to the subject. Mike Adams is not interested in creating dialogue he just wants to bitch and moan condescendingly. Unfortunately for the reader, he isn't witty or clever or even insightful.
Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone for any reason.
Okay, let me clarify that I do not often identify as a feminist mostly because I often feel alienated by the issues that seem to have become the flagship for women's rights, abortion and birth control. I'm tired of talking about birth control, especially when polls show that the economy is the number one concern for female voters. Just because I have a uterus doesn't mean that it's all I think about and plus I'm just not that into vagina pride.
Plus I've been told that I'm anti-woman at various times in my life like when I 'married young' (I don't consider 23 to be marrying young but okay) or when I chose to become a librarian (why am I reinforcing stereotypes? Seriously? It's what I want to do get off my back). These encounters have made me hesitant to call myself a feminist because even though I believe in equal rights and fair treatment and ending female infanticide and stopping the objectification of women, by the liberal definition I'm still not a feminist.
Which is really a shame because I think that outside of reproductive issues, I am a feminist.
I was hoping this book would address the fact that most women feel like they don't belong with the often fanatical face of feminism. I was hoping it would be a humorous account of liberal hypocrisy. Mostly I was hoping Mike Adams wouldn't be such an ass, but that is definitely how he comes across.
This book has absolutely no merit or value It's not informative, thought provoking, or entertaining. This is non-fiction? I find that hard to believe. There are several details that come off as being very one-sided, exaggerated, or possibly just made up. For example, Adams is having trouble with a feminist co-worker and his non-feminist secretary explains to him that his 'penis is too big' for the feminist, that's why she doesn't like him.
Also, the letter format is stupid, I guess he is trying to make it more believable as a piece of non-fiction? What he should have done is take his introduction with it's various points, do some actual fricken research, and then add a few anecdotes. Then maybe he would have produced something that is worth reading, instead of this boring whining drivel that adds nothing constructive or helpful to the subject. Mike Adams is not interested in creating dialogue he just wants to bitch and moan condescendingly. Unfortunately for the reader, he isn't witty or clever or even insightful.
Overall, I would not recommend this book to anyone for any reason.
June 8, 2020
If you like rape jokes I guess this is the book for you. The authors Twitter is a transphobic mess where he talks about peeing in the parking lot and identifying as a dog. Just a hateful person that desperately needs to do better.
March 4, 2015
The feminist movement has officially gone insane. Makes me sad that the radical man-hating, abortion-loving ones of today have made the movement a joke. This book is a great read. Masturbation seminars, orgasm awareness week, etc. are a complete embarrassment to women.
January 22, 2009
This book was absolutely hilarious. I am a slow reader but this book only took me a few days to breeze through as I could not put it down. Mr. Adams� humour is what I enjoy most about his writings.
March 24, 2008
Anyone familiar with Dr. Adams knows that he is not one to shy away from a fight -- especially when that fight is provoked by campus feminists. Anything I say by way of summary, example, or explanation would do a grave disservice to this brilliant collection of letters by Dr. Adams to those who put themselves squarely in his crosshairs by choice or ill-advised provocation. Wonderful book. Literally, laugh out loud funny.
June 25, 2012
I really enjoyed this book. I laughed till I nearly cried. Adams brings a combination of wit and wisdom in his confrontations that are interesting.
July 10, 2014
Typical Adams style: witty and hysterically sarcastic. Also proof that I could never be a professor at a public university.
April 15, 2019
Witty and sarcastic professor who uses logic and insight to debunk what feminism has turned into on our college campuses. This book portrays a good portion of what college life is like and the dominance of sexuality in places of higher learning. Issues such as freedom of speech and a slew of intolerances from feminist illustrate the hypocrisy of their movement and how it hinders progress for females to work hand-in-hand alongside male counter-parts. I truly enjoyed Dr. Adam's collected letters. I wish that I had more professors who rationalize arguments in such whimsical ways as he does. After all, I have never heard counterproposals to feminists sleeping with male candidates for university jobs to hire male prostitutes since feminists seem to have forgotten equal treatment and satisfaction for female candidates.
February 3, 2022
Mike Adam’s exposes hypocrisy in higher education concerning the feminist movement. It’s informative and well written, with his characteristic biting satire. Sometimes though, I believe it can be a bit too uncharitable. While Adam’s made me laugh and think, I believe we ought to expose falsehood’s while showing love to our non-Christian neighbors.
The fight he started to describe in this book killed him though. And that’s a damnable tragedy. I met Mr. Adam’s at Summit in 2008. You could not know a nicer guy who clearly loved the people he taught. You’re missed Mr. Adam’s, may your students carry on your legacy and what you taught them well.
The fight he started to describe in this book killed him though. And that’s a damnable tragedy. I met Mr. Adam’s at Summit in 2008. You could not know a nicer guy who clearly loved the people he taught. You’re missed Mr. Adam’s, may your students carry on your legacy and what you taught them well.
January 31, 2013
This book is one of those where people will hate it or love it for its theme.
When I picked up this book I wasn't expecting the letter formate and didn't enjoy the book for the first two-three "letter" chapters until I got use to the formatting. But after I got use to it I started to like it more - if you can call cringing at the the story of a woman who constantly cusses at the male faculty members & the one female who wasn't a feminist a way of enjoying the book. While I could never see myself mastering the bluntness and subtle sarcasm Mike Adams has in his letters, I (as a "traditional" female) appreciate the points he makes and calls the feminist on their irrational behavior and beliefs. Before the letters begins he also points out that feminist not only hate men, they also hate women like me. This is true, as I've experienced this attitude of varying degrees aimed at me in the past but at that time I wasn't quite sure why. Now I know.
Bottom line, this is a nice quick read that shows real life examples of what happens when the feminist belief is acted out - such as hiring a secretary despite her habits of leaving work whenever she felt offended or teachers lying left and right.
I give it three and a half stars because while it was a good read it wasn't indepth or as informative as some other books on the confrontation of feminism. For a more in depth book , pick up a copy of "Domestic Tranquility: a brief against Feminism" by F Carolyn Graglia. Fair warning, This book is thick and does touch on the sexual differences between male and female.
When I picked up this book I wasn't expecting the letter formate and didn't enjoy the book for the first two-three "letter" chapters until I got use to the formatting. But after I got use to it I started to like it more - if you can call cringing at the the story of a woman who constantly cusses at the male faculty members & the one female who wasn't a feminist a way of enjoying the book. While I could never see myself mastering the bluntness and subtle sarcasm Mike Adams has in his letters, I (as a "traditional" female) appreciate the points he makes and calls the feminist on their irrational behavior and beliefs. Before the letters begins he also points out that feminist not only hate men, they also hate women like me. This is true, as I've experienced this attitude of varying degrees aimed at me in the past but at that time I wasn't quite sure why. Now I know.
Bottom line, this is a nice quick read that shows real life examples of what happens when the feminist belief is acted out - such as hiring a secretary despite her habits of leaving work whenever she felt offended or teachers lying left and right.
I give it three and a half stars because while it was a good read it wasn't indepth or as informative as some other books on the confrontation of feminism. For a more in depth book , pick up a copy of "Domestic Tranquility: a brief against Feminism" by F Carolyn Graglia. Fair warning, This book is thick and does touch on the sexual differences between male and female.
July 12, 2008
Wow! This book is a real eye-opener. It's sad to read because I realized that many feminists give us all a bad name. It's sad that the actions of just a few feminists have caused such uproar on a university campus. I applaud Dr. Adams for speaking out. I hope that he will meet some feminists who do not do the stupid things the people in his book have done. A great read.
March 7, 2014
All I could say is OMG!!! What the heck is being taught in our colleges??!! I better enroll so I could learn to "masturbate"????!!!! Mike Adams shares his first-hand experience. He's funny, eloquent and clever in his battle to survive the male-hating environment at some/most(?) of the public colleges that are run by feminists!
April 4, 2008
Got a little repetitious.
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