Fascinating Womanhood

I stopped reading on page 55. It's pretty clear the rest of the book is akin to what it began with, and I just can't with that style. Maybe I'll finish it one day in the future, maybe not. I have no need for this book, I'm totally OK with my fascinating womanhood :-D

It's not bad, it's very old-fashioned, but if you think of it as a Victorian curiosity, it's quite readable. If you think of it as a guidebook for a modern woman... it's pretty horrible.

I would like to say that the advice is pretty solid. I'm sure it would work. It's pretty much the same advice given in the infamous British TV show, “How To Train Your Husband”. :-D Manipulate him with honey, subjugate through praise, train him well, and he'll do everything you want him to do.

But I'm not happy about how the book puts all the responsibility and blame on the woman and excuses everything he does with “boys will be boys”. “Don't expect him to behave like a woman, he isn't a woman”. So it's OK for him to yell at you, not thank you for the favors you do for him, or anything, just go on with his life as he chooses and wishes.

I also suspect there might be attacks on feminism later in the book. I don't know, because I haven't read it, but today's FW women are very loud against feminism and blame feminism for everything wrong in modern society. I wish these women would stop voting and using the other privileges feminism and suffragettes have made available for women. Anything else would be hypocritical. It's like people being against animal testing, but using insulin in spite of it being brought forth through animal testing. No vegans should be taking insulin. And no woman against feminism should be voting or getting higher education.