Nemesis
11-16-06, 04:02
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Interview with Matthew Fitzgerald.
By Darren Blacksmith.
http://www.geocities.com/aprilhouse/SEX-PLOYTATION.html?992318393090
Matthew Fitzgerald is the author of 'Sex-ploytation', a book that explores just how mercenary women are in seeking men purely on the basis of their wealth. The main message of the book is best summed up in the opening to chapter one:
"The average American woman is a w.hore. Her vagina is a business, and this business is extortion. Her most cherished goal is to live at a man's expense, to luxuriate in a life without work or responsibility. To this end, she deliberately seeks out men with large incomes or with resources adequate enough to warrant exploitation; all other males are rejected as "losers" or "friends"."
The prospect of sex is used as bait to lure men to give up their money.
"When they're on their backs," comments one man in the book, "the meter is running."
The age of romance is clearly dead. Crushed under the stiletto heal of feminism. The young girl pining for romance is a figure from the past. Today's young ladies require the sight of a gold card to get their juices flowing.
"When it comes to romance," writes another man, "a nice guy will finish dead last. That's why I see some guys who are really good people, who start treating women like shit because they're tired of getting turned down. The second they're abusive to women, these girls are all over them. Women are sick."
The book has struck a chord with men everywhere, who are sick of searching for genuine relationships but only get viewed as workhorses – rated according to their economic earning power. And while the average guy has to compete with women for jobs – and give them special treatment in the workplace – he is then expected to hark back to the age when men had the workplace to themselves and pay for 'dating': "Contemporary women want it both ways: they want to fulfil their potential, to make it in a "man's world", to have interesting careers and earn nice salaries, yet they still expect men to pay for then and take care of all their needs."
It's very rare to find a book that reveals a major trend in society that the other media have ignored, but this impassioned polemic certainly is that. It could be depressing reading indeed, but Fitzgerald's powerful and punchy style of delivery makes you sit up and listen, rather than lay down and cry.
However, this is not some dry academic paper, presenting all the studies and research in a tentative way, it is more like a lawyer making his case, a case built up through personal, first hand experience. But you can't just dismiss it on that basis, the message resonates too much with other men. And here is the book's greatest strength: at the end of each chapter we get a revealing collection of quotes from guys who have experienced female sexploitation at first hand. Even if you don't agree with all of his anthropological arguments, the voice of the street doesn't lie, it shouts out in agreement with the book.
I spoke with Matt about his book, the men's movement and whether things are getting better or worse.
Darren:
Interview with Matthew Fitzgerald.
By Darren Blacksmith.
http://www.geocities.com/aprilhouse/SEX-PLOYTATION.html?992318393090
Matthew Fitzgerald is the author of 'Sex-ploytation', a book that explores just how mercenary women are in seeking men purely on the basis of their wealth. The main message of the book is best summed up in the opening to chapter one:
"The average American woman is a w.hore. Her vagina is a business, and this business is extortion. Her most cherished goal is to live at a man's expense, to luxuriate in a life without work or responsibility. To this end, she deliberately seeks out men with large incomes or with resources adequate enough to warrant exploitation; all other males are rejected as "losers" or "friends"."
The prospect of sex is used as bait to lure men to give up their money.
"When they're on their backs," comments one man in the book, "the meter is running."
The age of romance is clearly dead. Crushed under the stiletto heal of feminism. The young girl pining for romance is a figure from the past. Today's young ladies require the sight of a gold card to get their juices flowing.
"When it comes to romance," writes another man, "a nice guy will finish dead last. That's why I see some guys who are really good people, who start treating women like shit because they're tired of getting turned down. The second they're abusive to women, these girls are all over them. Women are sick."
The book has struck a chord with men everywhere, who are sick of searching for genuine relationships but only get viewed as workhorses – rated according to their economic earning power. And while the average guy has to compete with women for jobs – and give them special treatment in the workplace – he is then expected to hark back to the age when men had the workplace to themselves and pay for 'dating': "Contemporary women want it both ways: they want to fulfil their potential, to make it in a "man's world", to have interesting careers and earn nice salaries, yet they still expect men to pay for then and take care of all their needs."
It's very rare to find a book that reveals a major trend in society that the other media have ignored, but this impassioned polemic certainly is that. It could be depressing reading indeed, but Fitzgerald's powerful and punchy style of delivery makes you sit up and listen, rather than lay down and cry.
However, this is not some dry academic paper, presenting all the studies and research in a tentative way, it is more like a lawyer making his case, a case built up through personal, first hand experience. But you can't just dismiss it on that basis, the message resonates too much with other men. And here is the book's greatest strength: at the end of each chapter we get a revealing collection of quotes from guys who have experienced female sexploitation at first hand. Even if you don't agree with all of his anthropological arguments, the voice of the street doesn't lie, it shouts out in agreement with the book.
I spoke with Matt about his book, the men's movement and whether things are getting better or worse.
Darren: