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Yes!!!! Thank you!!!! The problematic issues from earlier have been resolved! :D

I have no idea who the good or bad guys are anymore. Lol

Omg this book is flipping the first three books completely on its side. Everything established in the first three books is either set aside, not what it seemed, and who knows what else. This book is good. I am having feelz.

There are some problematic things in this book, but I still am enjoying this story.

This book is so intense.

"Public support for liberalizing divorce laws, which had been rising since 1968, fell 8% from the '70s. And it was men who contributed most to this downturn; nearly twice as many men as women told pollsters that they wanted to make it harder for couples to divorce."

"The dramatic increase in women working is the best kind of insurance against the vulnerability, [Duncan says], observing that women's access to better-paying jobs saved a lot of divorced women from a far worse living standard. And that access, [Duncan] points out, is largely a product of the women's movement."

"In the end, the most effective way to correct the post-divorce inequalities between the sexes is simple: correct pay inequality in the work force. If the wage gap were wiped out between the sexes, a federal advisory council concluded in 1982, one half of the female-headed households would be instantly lifted out of poverty."

"The concept of 'equality' and the sex-neutral language of the law have been used by some lawyers and judges as a mandate for 'equal treatment' with a vengeance, a vengeance that can only be explained as a backlash reaction to women's demands of equality in the larger society."

"By 1988, the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement had collected only $5 billion of the 25 fathers owed in back child support. And studies on child support collection strategies are finding that only one tactic seems to awaken the moral conscious of negligent fathers: mandatory jail sentences."

"The real source of divorced women's woes can be found not in the fine print of divorce legislation but in the behavior of ex-husbands and judges. Between 1978 and 1985, the average amount of child support that divorced men paid fell nearly 25%."

"Although the media fixed on its sensational implications, the figure [which was proven false] has little bearing on her second and more central point- that women are worse off since 'the divorce revolution.' This is an important question because it gets to the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal."

Sorry wrong book -_-

"Although the media was fixed on the sensational implications [of a percentage that has been proven to be false], the figure has little bearing on her [Weitzman] second and more central point- that women are worse off since 'the divorce revolution.' This is an important question because it gets to the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal."

This is really interesting to read more on the background behind the first three books that were hinted at but never explained. Some really interesting plot developments are starting to build up. Love it.

"The 1990 Virginia Slims poll found that nearly 60% of single women believed they were a lot happier than their married friends and that their lives were 'a lot easier'. "

"If anyone faced a shortage of potential of spouses, it was men in the primary marring years: between twenty-four and thirty-four, there were 119 single men for every hundred single women. "

"While the marriage rate has been declining in the general population, the rate has actually risen for women with four or more years of college who marry between ages of twenty-five and fourth-five. 'This seems to indicate delaying rather than forgoing marriage.' "

"The statistics the popular culture chooses to promote most heavily are the very statistics we should view with the most caution. They may well be in wide circulation not because they are true but because they support widely held media preconceptions."

"That the media finds this data so threatening to men is a sign of how easily hysteria of female 'aggression' ignites under an anti-feminist backlash. For instance, should the press really have been infuriated- or even surprised- that the women's number-one grievance about their men is that they 'don't listen'?"

"While the media widely characterized these women's stories about their husbands and lovers as 'man-bashing diatribes', the voices in Hite's book are far more forlorn than vengeful: 'I have given heart and soul of everything I am and have...Leaving me with nothing and lonely and hurt, and he is still requesting more of me. I am tired, so tired.' "

This book is already building in tension and mystery. Oooh.

Happy Saturday everyone:

They are gonna have one hell of a hangover after that night of hard drinking. I think these men could, on their own drink a frat house under the table. LOL

Re-read! :D

"[...]antifeminist backlash has been set off not by women's achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it." Interesting food for thought.

"The rising chorus of female protest shouldn't be written off as feminist-induced 'oversensitivity'." My note in the margins is a big resounding YES! With three underlines. Yes, this is my copy. Lol

"The U.S. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography even proposed that women's professional advancement might be responsible for rising rape rates. With more women in college and at work now, the commission members reasoned in their report, women just have more opportunities." Just let that quote sink in. This book was published in 1991.

I just finished the super long intro. I will be posting some of my fave quotes from it now. :)