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A review by camaradecanuck
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do about It by Warren Farrell
2.0
This book was quite the ride. I have read Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves and learned a great deal about the many issues facing modern men and boys and thought this book might expand on these topics or give me new perspectives and ideas. I did get some new insights and understandings into the issues I was interested in but mixed in to this was a whole host of other stuff I really did not care for.
Here is how most of this book went for me:
- Insightful passage
- Neocon pick yourself up by the bootstraps rhetoric
- Insightful statistic with discussion
- Anyone can be Bill Gates or Elon Musk if they work hard passage
- Empathetic discussion of how to deal with issues facing you or a loved one
- Hey did you know I helped John Lennon? (repeat 7-8 times throughout book)
Rinse and repeat until the second author hops in to talk about autism and ADHD for the last part of the book. The last part was so bad that it dropped this review from 3 stars to 2. He talks about drinking raw dairy to cure or treat ADHD as well as discussing chiropractic and hydrotherapy among other alternative medicines to treat the various plights of modern men and boys. I'm not disparaging these alternative treatments as I do agree that many modern societies (especially countries with financialized healthcare) are over-eager to prescribe meds but I just really didn't like it being included in this book and thought it brought the whole package down a level.
Overall, read Of Boys and Men before this unless you really like Dave Ramsey's world views and want that lens used to interpret the various crises men and boys are facing today outside of just finances.
Here is how most of this book went for me:
- Insightful passage
- Neocon pick yourself up by the bootstraps rhetoric
- Insightful statistic with discussion
- Anyone can be Bill Gates or Elon Musk if they work hard passage
- Empathetic discussion of how to deal with issues facing you or a loved one
- Hey did you know I helped John Lennon? (repeat 7-8 times throughout book)
Rinse and repeat until the second author hops in to talk about autism and ADHD for the last part of the book. The last part was so bad that it dropped this review from 3 stars to 2. He talks about drinking raw dairy to cure or treat ADHD as well as discussing chiropractic and hydrotherapy among other alternative medicines to treat the various plights of modern men and boys. I'm not disparaging these alternative treatments as I do agree that many modern societies (especially countries with financialized healthcare) are over-eager to prescribe meds but I just really didn't like it being included in this book and thought it brought the whole package down a level.
Overall, read Of Boys and Men before this unless you really like Dave Ramsey's world views and want that lens used to interpret the various crises men and boys are facing today outside of just finances.