Books like The Predatory Female: A Field Guide to Dating and the Marriage-Divorce Industry

When you start reading this garbage, you can see the connections between this steaming pile of shit and the current climate we're in with regards to MRAs (who refuse to acknowledge that feminists are doing their work for them while they keep going "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN" and doing nothing for... men) to PUAs to Red Pill to incels to... basically any misogynist group of men who really need to get out of their echo-chambers and meet the Real World.I'm sad for a lot of you, honestly.And it's completely telling, by the way, that misogynist groups love their out-of-date literature. While there are updated takes on this rubbish (Jordan Peterson, for instance), they cling to books written in the mid-1990s (and, in the suggestions for this book, early 1970s). I mean, Roosh V's little enclave of Creepy Men is where this was mentioned; he has a whole list of quotes from it that he finds "inspiring" or "important." It's no wonder they think the world left them behind; they've been clinging to these ideals as hard as they could, with no hopes of moving on.It's also interesting why the 'author' of this particular manifesto chose the name of a character in The Night of the Iguana. You know, the character who starts off the narrative as having been removed from the Church and accused of statutory rape. Aside from being misogynist trash, it's riddled with absurd metaphors that don't make sense. "Heads she wins, tails you lose." Has this man never heard of a double-headed coin? And the fact that you can't play heads-or-tails in that manner? He's trying to talk about 'cheating the game', but he can't even accurately portray cheating in his metaphor. And then there's the analogies to the predator species! Snakes, wasps, cats, sharks... and camels? The extremely predatory camel, the most dangerous creature to ever be found.And then there was a ludicrous amount of 'scrotum stretching' mentioned. And labia and vulva stretching. And just general genital stretching and a lot of focus on genitals. Wanting to live in a vagina? Swinging scrota like Argentine bolas? Being blinded by the steam of your own gonads? Renting a sex partner who is capable of turning you into a boiled chicken? I don't know what this man thinks anatomy is capable of, but I also don't want to find out. He makes zero sense.The implication that 'going to the gynaecologist is a socially acceptable form of rape' is baffling. There is an implication that a woman always has three men in her life: partner, lover, and gynaecologist. That a woman isn't capable of 'not being like that' (assuming 'that' is a chaste woman of some sort, since women are not supposed to enjoy sex -- he does say all women are 'orgasmically dysfunctional') because she's 'been finger fucked by the gynaecologist'. And if you pair this with the fact that women aren't allowed to be blasé with their birth control? We can't visit the gynaecologist without getting slut-shamed, but we have to because we should care about our birth control (for the sake of men -- not our own).Every single thing about women's socialisation is absurdly misinterpreted, as it frequently has been in op-eds by like-minded individuals and misogynist men's groups. They fail to see the broader context of everything, leading them to (at best) inaccurate conclusions and (at worst) downright lies about women. He lives in a world where Soap Operas are Actual Things, in a world where it's clear he hasn't engaged with Reality at all.And then there's the writing style. Written in a question-answer format, it's infuriating and boring. The questions are often not questions but statements, and he couldn't even be bothered to get real people to provide things; it's like the same Soap Operas were asking him the questions or telling him fictional stories (or less-likely-to-happen stories because almost every description or claim isn't backed by empirical evidence and hasn't been since the mid-1990s).Cisgendered straight men (and other people in general) who buy into this? I honestly feel sad for you. Especially since he thinks that one of the 'danger signals' is that you have a trashcan full of used feminine hygiene products. Because women in your home menstruating? Unacceptable.