Holly Gramazio
London
A review of this — 3 years ago
An argument that Western society isn’t sexist but rather bi-sexist, treating men even more unfairly than women based on assumptions about sexual roles, and that the interests of both men and women are being placed secondary to the survival of the next generation. Some interesting points (about men’s higher incarceration rates and earlier deaths, for example, and about the relative levels of funding given to men’s and women’s health), but fairly indifferently written. I’d have liked more historical context – if nothing else it would have helped the rigour of the argument, that it felt like Farrell was cherry-picking examples a bit haphazardly.


