I read this book about 6 months ago, and it made me think that finally there is one woman in the media "elite" who is seeing some sort of light. While I have not had her share of experiences in the work world, it just feels good to see someone getting some enlightenment. I enjoyed the bokk, and did not find it woman-hating at all like the Feministing.com statements have said. One statement that stood out to me was on pages 105 - 106:
"A lot of the women I met didn't know, didn't understand or didn't appear to care what a lot of the men in their lives wanted. . . . .Perhaps women have been guilty of hubris in this regard. We think of ourselves as emotional masters of the universe. In our world, feelings reign. We have them. We understand them. We cater to them, Men, we think don't on all counts. but as I learned among my friends in the bowling league and elsewhere, this is absolutely true and absurd. Of course men have a whole range of emotions, just as women do - it's just that many of them are often silent or underground, invisible to most women's eyes and ears. . . . Just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been one of our great collective female shortcomings to presume that whatever we do not perceive simply isn't there, or that whatever is not communicated in our language is not intelligible speech."