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Real Men Don't Eat Quiche |  | Author: Bruce Feirstein
Creator: Lee Lorenz
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 516605
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th
Pages: 92
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0207145806
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5407
EAN: 9780207145803
ASIN: 0671448315
Publication Date: April 1982
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Real men don't worry about it. March 6, 2008
Dale Swanson
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I first read this in 82 and used it as a teaching tool for young Marines. The point of the book is real men don't change their thoughts, opinions or behavior based on those of others. A Marine Gunnery Sergeant at the time, it made perfect sense though I didn't need this book to know that. I recently bought it again as a sort of teaching tool for my youngest son and oldest grandson with the following instructions: Read it, tell me what you think it means. Their answer: Always try to do the right thing and don't worry about what others think. Grade? 100%
It's supposed to be humor, folks September 1, 2006
Aaron W. Adams
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I read this back in 1982 and considered it harmless satire on macho masculinity. Sure, there are a lot of knuckle draggers who really believe this stuff, but everyone is entitled to their own idiotic opinions. You're certainly not going to change anyone's attitude by telling them they're morons. Honestly, folks who take this seriously ought to remember that "real men" are too self-assured to care about other people's benighted definition of "real men". Bruce Feirstein had his moment in the sun, and now he's a footnote in feminist backlash. It doesn't matter whether he actually believed this stuff. I would guess he probably wrote the book just to get people riled up. Seems to have worked, too.
Overall the book is funny and a good read. Just don't read too much into it.
 Does anyone remember? August 3, 2006
magellan (Santa Clara, CA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I don't know if anyone remembers this book, which burst upon the scene in 1982 and instantly made its authors the current talk of the airwaves. It became a many-week bestseller, and one of them (I'm not sure which), proceeded to make the rounds of the talk shows, where he came off as intelligent, articulate, and funny, poked fun at his own book, and showed that the book really wasn't meant to be taken seriously in the first place. The scathing and well-written review by my fellow Top 50 reviewer E.A. Solinas notwithstanding, this shows they completely missed the point of the whole book. The book is a total satire, and pokes fun at the then raging battle between the sexes back in the 70s and 80s, when the traditional male role was under constant attack by feminists individually and the media collectively, and formerly secure, macho men who had never questioned their roles or behavior before were coping with a newly found insecurity and looking for a new definition of homegrown, American beefcake and maleness. That quest continues today in more subdued form (and with less existential angst), but whatever the ultimate fate of feminism, there's no doubt that it had a telling effect on many American men who examined their traditional roles for the first time. (Perhaps it could be said they finally realized they had delusions of gender). :-) This little book now stands as one of the funnier outposts along the ages old warpath in the battle between the sexes, especially in how that debate took shape and was framed in the U.S. during its earlier years.
 Book of All Knowlege April 8, 2006
Donald M. Snyder (Diamondhead, MS)
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is the ultimate guide to all things MAN. It is the I-Ching of Manliness. My self (a Man)and my friends (also Men) refer to this tome of greatest wisdom and "The Book of All Knowledge". We put on on our wingtips, crank up the Chevy Straight 8, and and say "To hell with the enivornment, its full speed ahead"
 A satire worth reading once, but not buying. September 22, 2005
Timothy Doran (Berkeley, CA USA)
4 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book should be taken as a satire of dumb men. Even if it was not intended as such, most of us now think that the author's intention does not determine the meaning of a work. Amidst various moderately repulsive assertions (such as that women look best at age 16 and go downhill thereafter -- I don't agree at all) there is the remnant of an honest attempt to hold onto something that the authors perhaps thought was slipping away. I find some of the men that this book lampoons to be odious as well, but the attitude it upholds is even more grotesque. The reviewer who compares the attitude found in this work with that found in misandric feminist circles is quite correct.
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