I recently read the short book 'The Manipulated Man' by Esther Vilar, and it is excellent. You don't need to read my rendition of her, you can simply read the excerpts below (the subheadings are my own creation).
Only Women Matter To A Woman
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Why Men Put The Pussy On A Pedestal:
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Why Women Are An Enigma To Men
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Why Celebrity Gossip Is Ubiquitous
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Men Mistakenly Support Feminism To Liberate Women From Themselves
Her greatest error is that she paints too broad a brush. She doesn't believe love exists; she thinks all female relationships with men are based on manipulation. Women only want money, and they don't care about male attractiveness, in her estimation. But if you see these things as tendencies, and not absolute descriptions, she's not so far off the mark.
She doesn't address whether the tables can be turned, into where a man holds the reins in the relationship. She is convinced that men are utterly superior to women, yet ironically, she implies none among them can truly control a woman. The lives of men like Porfirio Rubirosa and Roosh put the lie to that notion, in my opinion. One could counter that they are still under the control of women as a sex, a fair point.
You can find the entire book in PDF if you search the title in Google.
PS I just bought an e-reader (an $80 Kindle), and it's terrific. If you like reading but haven't done much lately, and would like to read more, I highly recommend it.
Only Women Matter To A Woman
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Whatever men set about to impress women with, counts for nothing in the world of women. Only another woman is of importance in her world.
Of course, a woman will always be pleased if a man turns to look at her - and if he is well dressed or drives an expensive sports car, so much the better. Her pleasure may be compared to that of a shareholder who finds that his stocks have risen. It will be a matter of complete indifference to a woman if he is attractive or looks intelligent. A shareholder is hardly likely to notice the color of his dividend checks.
But if another woman should turn to look - a rare occurrence, for her own judgment is infinitely more remorseless than that of a man - her day is made. She has achieved the impossible - the recognition, admiration, and `love' of other women.
Yes, only women exist in a woman's world. The women she meets at church, at parent-teacher meetings, or in the supermarket; the women with whom she chats over the garden fence; the women at parties or window-shopping in the more fashionable streets; those she apparently never seems to notice - these women are the measure of her success or failure. Women's standards correspond to those in other women's heads, not to those in the heads of men; it is their judgment that really counts, not that of men. A simple word of praise from another woman -and all those clumsy, inadequate male compliments fall by the wayside, for they are just praises out of the mouths of amateurs. Men really have no idea in what kind of world women live in; their hymns of praise miss all the vital points.
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Why Men Put The Pussy On A Pedestal:
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A man needs a woman because, as we shall see, he needs something to which he may subject himself. But at the same time he must retain his self-respect. This leads him to endow woman with qualities which will justify his subjection. As woman has never yet made any attempt to use her wits, he cannot call her intelligent, but he gets close to it by creating the concept of `woman's intuition.' So, in the absence of any other real qualities, he calls her beautiful.
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Why Women Are An Enigma To Men
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HER STUPIDITY MAKES WOMAN DIVINE
The most important requirements for woman's divinity are, however, her propensity to masquerade and her stupidity. A system must either overwhelm its believers with its greatly superior wisdom or confuse them with its incomprehensibility As the first possibility is unavailable to women, they take advantage of the second. Their masquerade causes them to appear strange and mysterious to men; their stupidity
makes them inaccessible to scrutiny. While intelligence shows itself in actions that are reasonable and logical, hence permits measurement, predictability, and control, stupidity shows itself in actions that are completely unreasonable, unpredictable and uncontrollable. Women are protected by a screen of pomp, mummery, and mystification as much as any Pope or dictator: they cannot be unmasked and will increase their power unhindered, gaining strength as they go. In return man is guaranteed, in the long term, a divinity in which he can deeply believe
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Why Celebrity Gossip Is Ubiquitous
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Women's stupidity is so overwhelming that anyone who comes into contact with it will become, in a way, infected by it. That this is not obvious is solely because everybody has been exposed to it from birth and, as a result, has become inured to it. In previous years men either ignored it or believed it to be a typically feminine characteristic which harmed no one. But with the increase in leisure and money to spend, woman's need for entertainment has grown. Consequently, her imbecility is spreading into public life as well, reflected not just in vases, bedroom pictures, brocade curtains, cocktail parties, and Sunday sermons. The mass media have become more involved in it. Women's programs are gaining ground in radio and television. And even respectable newspapers print society gossip, crime features, and fashion news, horoscopes, and cooking recipes. And women's magazines become every day more numerous and sumptuous on the stands. Step by step, not only the private sphere of men but all of public life has become infected by this stupidity.
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Men Mistakenly Support Feminism To Liberate Women From Themselves
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Since he realises that he and the other members of his sex are interested only in woman's external appearance (for what else is there to interest him?), he assumes that his wife's tireless efforts to make herself into an object of desire and to create a certain mystique by means of make-up (which, however, should not be exaggerated) are the signs of an excessive zeal to please him. Of course he feels guilty - and
rather touched. Thanks to his primitive needs, he believes that he is making woman into this object of his desires; he believes he is suppressing all her worthwhile qualities, which are, in fact, nowhere to be found. As usual he is missing the truth by a hair's breadth. It is in his own interest to deny the fact that this whole development is tantamount to the highest level of feminine culture and that women do not, by
means of fashion and cosmetics, make themselves into objects, but rather their ceaseless preoccupation with such matters corresponds to the mental activities of infinitely primitive subjects.
Her greatest error is that she paints too broad a brush. She doesn't believe love exists; she thinks all female relationships with men are based on manipulation. Women only want money, and they don't care about male attractiveness, in her estimation. But if you see these things as tendencies, and not absolute descriptions, she's not so far off the mark.
She doesn't address whether the tables can be turned, into where a man holds the reins in the relationship. She is convinced that men are utterly superior to women, yet ironically, she implies none among them can truly control a woman. The lives of men like Porfirio Rubirosa and Roosh put the lie to that notion, in my opinion. One could counter that they are still under the control of women as a sex, a fair point.
You can find the entire book in PDF if you search the title in Google.
PS I just bought an e-reader (an $80 Kindle), and it's terrific. If you like reading but haven't done much lately, and would like to read more, I highly recommend it.
