U Not Gonna Like This

This is one book that every anti-feminist blogger should have on their reading list. Too few of them understand where the roots of women's smug sense of superiority comes from. Well it can be traced back in large part to a book written in 1952 by the late anthropologist Ashley Montagu in a book entitled Natural Superiority of Women.





Here's a review of the book from David Throop's Men's Issues Page (link):

Montagu, Ashley The Natural Superiority of Women, Collier Books, N.Y. 1974


This is a very important book. In many ways it was in the writing of this well known anthropologist that the classical liberal case for social equality between genders has crossed the Rubicon to inanity. 'I should have not written this book', forswears the author, 'had I thought there was any danger that women would adopt superior airs and deal with men as their inferiors'. The book attempts to prove that women, collectively, possess biological qualities that better assure the survival of the species.



It is a convoluted but a hugely flawed argument. Even we accept the premise that quantitatively women are kinder than men and their social skills engend- er higher survival rates of the human species we will not avoid the problem of populations overrunning their resources on a small planet. So it may well be that women are killing us with kindness. Nonetheless, the idea of adducing survival (de)merit points to genders has caught fire and the nincompoop parallel between human males and 'dinosaurs'(both sexes) which Montagu introduced here to peddle his superior attitudes to women soon became a feminist byword.

So it might be a good idea to add this book to your reading list as well.