Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture

Robert B. MacIntyre, a former professor of psychology at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, is head of the Centre for
Relationship Therapy and Education in Orangeville, Ontario.

With more than 40 pages of appendixes and 50-plus pages of footnotes,
Spreading Misandry has all the trappings of a scholarly work. The
authors’ basic thesis is that popular culture has been taken over and
used to promote the image of men as evil or inadequate, or both. To
support their argument, Nathanson and Young present detailed critiques
of selected movies, television shows, interviews, greeting cards, and
other popular culture artifacts. Although there is no question that men
are presented negatively in some areas of popular culture, the authors
overstate their case when they suggest that popular culture is deeply
informed by a feminist—and man-hating—elite. Movies and television
programs not discussed by the authors are indicative of an even larger
body of popular cultural artifacts that depict men as powerful, capable,
and admirable.

As another voice in the ongoing gender wars, this book will be of
particular interest to supporters of social conservatism.