Are Men Necessary?

Troubling, someone so inspiring. I had a sudden urge to become a hardcore journalist and work at the biggest newspapers in the world, just so I could be a little more like Maureen Dowd. 

Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has taken an interest in the male race. She finds men quite intriguing, and decided to investigate the relationship between them and the weaker sex. She doesn't have any answers, but, as a good journalist, she likes to ask questions.

I looked at her biography, as inspiration, and, not surprisingly, she studied English literature. Wonderful. She is funny, scathing, her sentences are never constructed in the same way, she has the gift of showing that she is brilliant without using incomprehensible words.

To answer the question in her book, "Are Men Necessary?", she dissects the relationship between men and women in politics, in Arab countries, in movies, in dating books, in Barbies, in biology (she managed to find scientists who claimed that the Y-chromosome was on the wane and that eventually it was possible, with new technologies and all, that women would end up alone on planet Earth).

She spoke with great humor, but without destroying them, about books like The Rulesand others that are wildly lacking in my culture: they say, for example, how to answer the phone in a sexy way: "Take a deep breath before answering, then exhale slowly while answering. Smile as you speak." (Probably because I didn't know this before, I didn't meet the man of my life.)

I read the book in English, which unfortunately also made me realize that I don't have the vocabulary of a graduate in English literature. I missed bits and pieces of it, and since I haven't followed American politics for the last 50 years, I didn't understand all the references and there are certainly some things I would have found very funny. But still a delightful read.

Are Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide

Maureen Dowd

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