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Books for Self Improvement

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  1. Slaw Gold Member Gold Member

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    Bit of positivity in these times. Anybody recommend any books for self improvement? I've been meaning to start reading and ordered 4 new books off Amazon just now:

    - Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
    - Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert Kiyosaki)
    - Long Story Short (Margot Leitman)
    - An Altcoin Trader's Handbook (Nik Patel)

    Anyone have any thoughts on the above or other similar books?

    I could not recommend Joran Peterson's '12 Rules to Life' enough.
    - Helped me to grow into a man I would say. To be confident in myself and with interacting with woman and to understand many of the reasons why I was feeling depressed or anxious. It seriously changed my life massively.
     
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    Broken Open - Elizabeth Lesser
     
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  5. Slaw Gold Member Gold Member

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    Cheers lads, a little outline of what the book is and why you recommend it would help people also :50:
     
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    “The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.


    Fearless feminist heroine Clementine Ford s incendiary first book, Fight Like A Girl, is taking the world by storm, galvanising women to demand and fight for real equality and not merely the illusion of it.

    Now Boys Will Be Boys examines what needs to change for that equality to become a reality. It answers the question most asked of Clementine: 'How do I raise my son to respect women and give them equal space in the world? How do I make sure he's a supporter and not a perpetrator?'

    Ford demolishes the age-old assumption that superiority and aggression are natural realms for boys, and demonstrates how toxic masculinity creates a disturbingly limited and potentially dangerous idea of what it is to be a man. Crucially, Boys Will Be Boys reveals how the patriarchy we live in is as harmful to boys and men as it is to women and girls, and asks what we have to do to reverse that damage. The world needs to change and this book shows the way.”
     
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  10. Twisty Rodgers out !!! Gold Member

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  11. Seán Mac D Gold Member Gold Member

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    I'm not sure an individual that was binned by a Suicide Charity for tweeting "all men must die" "kill all men" and "I bathe in male tears" is the ideal individual to be taking self-improvement advice from.

    Egalitarianism > Feminism.
     
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  12. Slaw Gold Member Gold Member

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  13. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    :56:

    Didn’t know that. Was only at the wind up anyway. :giggle1:

    Had a look, claims she was joking anyway.
     
  14. Seán Mac D Gold Member Gold Member

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    I thought you might've been at the madam but thought I'd weigh in anyway. She's part of the problem, not the solution.
     
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    “Ford has indeed said she thinks all men should die. A compilation of tweet screenshots made the rounds recently, circulated by none other than our very own ACT Party.


    Why did she say those things? It was, she says, a joke. A joke at her own 'man hater' image, a joke about how women's rights activists have always been perceived.

    "What's not pointed out in this collage of my tweets is that I'm often responding to people who are saying ludicrous things like 'feminists like you hate all men and want them to die'," she says.

    "There's only so many times you can hear those things before you want to react to them with the nonsense that they are."

    It's a joke she doesn't make anymore because she says it's not worth the effort of explaining.

    "I think some of them really desperately want to believe that I'm serious about that. Essentially it comes down to the fact that women and marginalised groups have always been expected to laugh at jokes about ourselves, yet white men find that very difficult a lot of the time."



    Don’t know enough about her tbh, but that seems reasonable enough.
     
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    "White men find that very difficult a lot of the time"

    And you talk to me about racist undertones :56:
     
  17. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Mentioning skin colour doesn’t equal racism. Especially when the person saying it is also white.
     
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    I wonder if she would downplay supposedly ironic comments from.misogynists?

    I think we both know the answer to that.

    If discrimination is a problem then further discrimination is never the cure.

    As I said people like her being narrow-minded and inflammatory aren't part of the solution, they're part of the problem.

    Instead of trying to pin people to a feminist label, why aren't we trying to pin people to an egalitarian label?
     
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  20. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    I can’t see any discrimination there.

    Feminism is all about equality, not misandry.