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In reply to the discussion: What fueled right wingers, fathers rights, mens' rights, gun rights & teabaggers into existence? [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)(1) Ascribing to me ideas you came up with
(2) Assuming that the book employs no studies or statistics and is merely some guy's opinion (or mine!)
(3) Assuming that somehow the book might be wrong in using studies to determine what the majority might feel. Studies and statistics have been used for centuries to determine how the majority of a group feel, do best, etc.
(4) Social isolation has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on today. Men in Latin countries do not experience social isolation, are warmer and closer to one another and to their families. While I agree that social isolation affects us all in the U.S., since this country is one of loners, and humans were not meant to be loners, this has absolutely nothing to do with the premise of the book.
Read it. Check it out of the library.