How to be successful without hurting men's feelings

take everything · 08-06-2019 05:42PM #1

Just browsing in a bookshop earlier and this title caught my eye.

I can only imagine the furore and Twitter mobs if this was "How to be successful without hurting women's feelings".

Why is this kind of thing not called out for the bull**** it clearly is.

Sonny noggs · 08-06-2019 05:45PM

Because making an issue of it means you must be a woman hating misogynist. Are you?

blackcard · 08-06-2019 05:47PM

Were your feelings hurt when you saw the title of the book?

08-06-2019 05:47PM

take everything wrote: »

Just browsing in a bookshop earlier and this title caught my eye.

I can only imagine the furore and Twitter mobs if this was "How to be successful without hurting women's feelings".

Why is this kind of thing not called out for the bull**** it clearly is.

The premise of this book is that men are idiots. But, we get used to that narrative and don't fight every battle. We die young enough as it is.

hairyprincess · 08-06-2019 05:47PM

Did you actually read anything regarding the book or did you just get outraged at the title?

It’s comedy. Relax and have a glass of wine. Maybe a bath.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 08-06-2019 05:51PM

take everything wrote: »

Just browsing in a bookshop earlier and this title caught my eye.

I can only imagine the furore and Twitter mobs if this was "How to be successful without hurting women's feelings".

Why is this kind of thing not called out for the bull**** it clearly is.

Publishers will publish things they think will make money. I guess they figured there was a market for that topic. I’m not sure what we should be calling out really? Shïtty books get published all the time.

Silentcorner · 08-06-2019 05:53PM

take everything wrote: »

Just browsing in a bookshop earlier and this title caught my eye.

I can only imagine the furore and Twitter mobs if this was "How to be successful without hurting women's feelings".

Why is this kind of thing not called out for the bull**** it clearly is.

Its just publishing companies taking money off of women....years ago it was "how to bag a husband" or some such. They should do one on "Patriarchy chicken"...its a thing apparently...they'd make a fortune. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2019/02/how-play-patriarchy-chicken-why-i-refuse-move-out-way-men

They take cheap money off men too, in the form of sports autobiographies.

kneemos · 08-06-2019 05:54PM

Maybe someday we'll learn to celebrate difference.

judeboy101 · 08-06-2019 05:56PM

Know how to swallow?

OldMrBrennan83 · 08-06-2019 05:58PM

Reverse sexism is all the range now. We just have to live with it and ride it out, at least there's no big immediate danger to us.

Mickeroo · 08-06-2019 06:01PM

The book seems to be a satire or am I missing something?

Yer Da sells Avon · 08-06-2019 06:06PM

Sounds like a book that you'd find stacks of in one of those discount bookshops that sell books for a fiver each, or three for ten euro. Satire, presumably, designed to hurt the feelings of the type of men whose feelings get easily hurt by trivial stuff like that.

Jupiter Mulligan · 08-06-2019 06:08PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

The book seems to be a satire or am I missing something?

I've just ordered it online so I'll let you know after the missus has read it and told me what to say.

IAMAMORON · 08-06-2019 06:13PM

Set up a crowd fund to purchase every copy in circulation, globally.

Rent an outdoor swimming pool and throw every copy in there, add petrol and ignite. Maybe keep a copy to read or as a souvenir.

Keep me updated please.

IAMAMORON · 08-06-2019 06:28PM

Make sure you empty the pool first.....

Sonny noggs · 08-06-2019 06:57PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Make sure you empty the pool first.....

Of water or people? Or both?

conorhal · 08-06-2019 07:03PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

The book seems to be a satire or am I missing something?

The hilarious, unintentional irony of an immediate pearl clutch at 'muh sexism'?

alchemist33 · 08-06-2019 07:05PM

Still waiting for an answer to the question posed in the OP...

harry Bailey esq · 08-06-2019 07:08PM

hairyprincess wrote: »

Did you actually read anything regarding the book or did you just get outraged at the title?

It’s comedy. Relax and have a glass of wine. Maybe a bath.

You forgot the Yankee candles!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 08-06-2019 07:09PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Still waiting for an answer to the question posed in the OP...

The question of why this stuff isn’t called out? People have addressed it in various ways. What do you think yourself? Why wait for others to answer?

mad muffin · 08-06-2019 07:15PM

It’s pretty simple really.

White heterosexual male bad.

Everyone else good.

Some are more good than others.

alchemist33 · 08-06-2019 07:22PM

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

The question of why this stuff isn’t called out? People have addressed it in various ways. What do you think yourself? Why wait for others to answer?

The question of how to be successful without hurting mens feelings

kowloon · 08-06-2019 07:22PM

Do you think the below is insensitive to victims of maritime collisions?

klaaaz · 08-06-2019 07:24PM

alchemist33 wrote: »

Still waiting for an answer to the question posed in the OP...

Do men have feelings? (of course they do). I've often wondered why some men rather moan about women having their annual day but this chunk of men do not promote the yearly men's mental health day(sometime in Nov) which helps men!

Vulnerable men need to open up about their feelings as it's men who have that tragic high suicide rate, it's ok to talk about your difficulties in life and other men who see a man showing their feelings as a weakness are the danger.

alchemist33 · 08-06-2019 07:30PM

Apologies folks, I was being sarcastic with my comment, but I appreciate its pretty much impossible to tell sarcasm from genuine comments these days.

Hedgelayer · 08-06-2019 07:47PM

This reminds me of the advertisements I'm hearing on the radio lately with the ladies with the soft tones with a hint of southside Dublin wrapped up in an image of pure class...

She sends the guy out for say Polish and he comes home with two flight tickets to Poland for a long weekend....

Then you hear his side of the story and he sounds like a real twat with a knuckle dragging voice....

Then they'll have a narrative of someone advertising hearing aids.

Not only are they undermining the poor guy but they're making deaf people sound like complete and utter twit's....

Such vvankers whomever are coming up with these scripts.

Shows the marketing creativity in this country, undermining men and deaf people all at once and women for not realising their partners are deaf and maybe the women should be more clear with the neanderthal....

So that's an own goal in itself....

You couldn't make it up

08-06-2019 07:59PM

mad muffin wrote: »

It’s pretty simple really.

White heterosexual male bad.

Everyone else good.

Some are more good than others.

Prefix with privileged and you're there.

mad muffin · 08-06-2019 08:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Prefix with privileged and you're there.

What other prefix has “privilege”?

08-06-2019 08:39PM

mad muffin wrote: »

What other prefix has “privilege”?

You've heard of privileged white male surely.

08-06-2019 09:00PM

klaaaz wrote: »

Do men have feelings? (of course they do). I've often wondered why some men rather moan about women having their annual day but this chunk of men do not promote the yearly men's mental health day(sometime in Nov) which helps men!

Vulnerable men need to open up about their feelings as it's men who have that tragic high suicide rate, it's ok to talk about your difficulties in life and other men who see a man showing their feelings as a weakness are the danger.

Men just need to feel respected in society and that they have a purpose in life. Its not natural for a man to be emotional like a woman. Men are not women, they are both very different. Society is making women compete with men, instead of them both complementing their differences

El_Duderino 09 · 08-06-2019 09:06PM

To be fair, if you're upset by that title alone, then I'd say you're fairly easily upset. So, unfortunately, you're kinda validating the premise of the book

Women aren't half as scary as you seem to think. They're almost, like, normal people.

How to be successful without hurting men's feelings

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