I think anytime you have ppl who are espousing things that they have 'painfully' had to accept as true, it gives more credibility since they appear to be working against their own self interest (such as conservatives saying Obama would make a better President than McCain).

Also, and this is of course what I will get grief over, when you have a member of a less-empowered group taking the side of the dominant culture, eps when members of that culture feel that the power balance is the other way 'round and that *they* are the ones being dominated and losing their rights, their opinion finds a very receptive audience and gets lots of attention. ("See! Even one of THEM admits women are that way!")

Personally, I would be very interested in the the demographics of buyers and proponents of these books...

Carolle :)

Yes it does, but for a different reason. Simply because a woman standing against feminism is contrarian. The dominant paridigm among western women is the creed of feminism, that women have been and are now oppressed and need society's help to overcome that oppression. Men who go against that idea are not swimming against the current, since among men they are quite common; men who embrace that idea are not mavericks either, simply consumers of diversity training seminars and advertisements from grade-school onwards. A woman who goes against that paradigm is a true maverick, regardless of her reason for doing so, and gets the notice of men and women alike.

Mr_A,

I am confused...didnt i say in my first paragraph that one of the reasons was that ppl going against what was considered the views of their self-declaimed group generally get more attention, no matter the subject area?

Did I just not not commicate that well? Or is there some other reason used this point as a starting place for you comments? I am very interested in your motivation...

(not of course that you need to defend your right to post, or to expand, or for your views or whatever, I just wonder if it fits some bigger agenda than just the credibility of these authors and the attention given to them...)

Sincerely,

Carolle

Mr_A,

Oh, and thank you, too, your comments fit very well with my second paragraph, and support its thesis very well, I feel..

Carolle