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Every man needs to read this book if they want to be an ally to woman. This is a difficult read, and men will get very defensive unless they realize that this is statement about the patriarchy rather than an individual; however, just the way our male body is less vulnerable than that of a woman, and has been all throughout time, and that we are physically larger and stronger, "we" have oppressed woman, we have raped, we have disfigured and we, in the form of patriarchy have defined femininity. We have dictated what is moral, and not moral, we have decided what a woman's role in society. "Femininity is a male construct."

We are son's and we all have mothers. We need to know what their life has been like. What it is like to feel unsafe walking down the street, and be objectified by most men. What is it like for mostly men (gynecologists) to be probed, invaded and ultimately surgically altered often without choice. We need to know the atrocities that happen to woman all over the world, but not forgetting that these atrocities happen in our own culture.

The patriarchy hurts everyone, it hurts every man by dictating roles, ways of being, feelings that are allowed to be felt, attitudes that we are allowed to take. When it wants to humiliate us, it uses its own constructs of femininity to call us names. It uses female body parts to say that we are less than men.