I could offer many suggestions, but one stands out: The Empathy Gap by William Collins—provided he would consent to its inclusion. Though focused on the UK, this book offers the most rigorously researched and data-rich exploration I’ve seen on the disparities affecting men, women, and children. It’s a forensic examination of the consistent failure of institutions—legal, educational, and governmental—to uphold anything close to genuine equality. Accessible yet deeply analytical, it would be a powerful addition for both professionals and informed general readers seeking a clearer picture of gendered outcomes.
Great suggestion Douglas. I've read the Empathy Gap. At page 762 in my Kindle version I suspect you know you'll find a piece quoted and written by John Stuart Mill ( 1806-1873 ) On Liberty. A "malady of thought". I drew my conclusions from more than 70 years of Humean empirically evidenced experience with the women in my life closest to me. Not research but reality done up close and personal. Then I read this by Mill and thought sheesh. The Prisoners of their Thoughts ( Frankl - Pattakos). In 1988 I'm 43. My mother announces, with her agonised victim look plainly on display, to a room full of friends and relatives you know Mike he's always so lucky he gets it all. I, at the time, had lung cancer lost my right lung had three children under 10 and a wife who thought works was for others. The audience stared at her in disbelief. I became a single parent. 37 years later I have well and truly acknowledged my greatest good fortune was, unlike my mother my sister, my ex wife and many other women I kept my self respect by earning it. In spades.
Thanks Mike and Douglas for your suggestion to include the Empathy Gap. I am glad to report that it should be a part of this library in the next day or so.
Might be interesting to add fearing reprisals and early forced retirement author of the Empathy Gap William Collins is a pseudonym for Rick Bradford . Shakes me sort of that he saw the need yet my experience says totally understandable. A key factor for me over 70 years has been any mild challenge to the existing order of things often received a rabid response. Yet being always inclined to be counter intuitive I’ve looked at the lives of the women I’ve known and many were chained in Plato’s cave with shadows for reality for a life. Trapped in a truly toxic inner world of self hate. Never finding the courage to see the truth of it. Constantly being told they’re entitled victims by the vacuous feminist. Cruel irony was for example how my mother destroyed my sister . I left at 15. I have looked for a long time now at the damage women in the west have done to themselves much more than me. How would an essay title “how women lost the west be received?
There is a simple policy fix we haven't thought of yet.
And if each mind is a revolver, A.I. has the potential to be a howitzer.
Find the range of the injustice boys and calculate a fixing solution on the battlefield if ideas, policy formulation, and social technologies.
I imagine 10s of thousands of family court cases are heard daily, a quarter million children are aborted, a billion dollars are taxed by men to pay it. So let's start industrialising our movements for justice.
I was looking forward to my 80th. That was last year. I guess 81 in a couple of months will have do. I've been counter intuitive all my long life. The epistemology error in the West has been fatally flawed for a very long time. Theory over practice - deductive in place of inductive- so said Danny Kahneman 2013 Utube with Naseem Taleb. Much of the talk of men's issues is fine and good yet misses a massive point. The people in Plato's cave chained and watching the shadows,as if they're reality, are women. This is the crucial problem that I have never been able to fix. Why? Self-respect is an inside job. You cannot outsource but it they have. If you're a woman you're naturally wonderfully empathetic axiomatically articulate and brilliant.Really?
Not that I have seen in 80 years. Of course the response to any suggestion of such heresy is venomous and volcanic.
My life with women has been a Pareto distribution of parasites . Locked in syndrome writ large. No need for courage my PR sisters are all around. At least 80% of women I've known ( my maternal grandmother my mother my sister her two daughters my ex wife my daughter and another dozen damsels who have caused their own distress) have gone through their lives as pernicious pretenders. It was not that nothing I did could change the course of their sad and sorry lives it was as Max Scheler offered reacted to with resentment. Courage cancelled.
I could offer many suggestions, but one stands out: The Empathy Gap by William Collins—provided he would consent to its inclusion. Though focused on the UK, this book offers the most rigorously researched and data-rich exploration I’ve seen on the disparities affecting men, women, and children. It’s a forensic examination of the consistent failure of institutions—legal, educational, and governmental—to uphold anything close to genuine equality. Accessible yet deeply analytical, it would be a powerful addition for both professionals and informed general readers seeking a clearer picture of gendered outcomes.
Great suggestion Douglas. I've read the Empathy Gap. At page 762 in my Kindle version I suspect you know you'll find a piece quoted and written by John Stuart Mill ( 1806-1873 ) On Liberty. A "malady of thought". I drew my conclusions from more than 70 years of Humean empirically evidenced experience with the women in my life closest to me. Not research but reality done up close and personal. Then I read this by Mill and thought sheesh. The Prisoners of their Thoughts ( Frankl - Pattakos). In 1988 I'm 43. My mother announces, with her agonised victim look plainly on display, to a room full of friends and relatives you know Mike he's always so lucky he gets it all. I, at the time, had lung cancer lost my right lung had three children under 10 and a wife who thought works was for others. The audience stared at her in disbelief. I became a single parent. 37 years later I have well and truly acknowledged my greatest good fortune was, unlike my mother my sister, my ex wife and many other women I kept my self respect by earning it. In spades.
Thanks Mike and Douglas for your suggestion to include the Empathy Gap. I am glad to report that it should be a part of this library in the next day or so.
Might be interesting to add fearing reprisals and early forced retirement author of the Empathy Gap William Collins is a pseudonym for Rick Bradford . Shakes me sort of that he saw the need yet my experience says totally understandable. A key factor for me over 70 years has been any mild challenge to the existing order of things often received a rabid response. Yet being always inclined to be counter intuitive I’ve looked at the lives of the women I’ve known and many were chained in Plato’s cave with shadows for reality for a life. Trapped in a truly toxic inner world of self hate. Never finding the courage to see the truth of it. Constantly being told they’re entitled victims by the vacuous feminist. Cruel irony was for example how my mother destroyed my sister . I left at 15. I have looked for a long time now at the damage women in the west have done to themselves much more than me. How would an essay title “how women lost the west be received?
Write it!
This is important.
There is a simple policy fix we haven't thought of yet.
And if each mind is a revolver, A.I. has the potential to be a howitzer.
Find the range of the injustice boys and calculate a fixing solution on the battlefield if ideas, policy formulation, and social technologies.
I imagine 10s of thousands of family court cases are heard daily, a quarter million children are aborted, a billion dollars are taxed by men to pay it. So let's start industrialising our movements for justice.
I was looking forward to my 80th. That was last year. I guess 81 in a couple of months will have do. I've been counter intuitive all my long life. The epistemology error in the West has been fatally flawed for a very long time. Theory over practice - deductive in place of inductive- so said Danny Kahneman 2013 Utube with Naseem Taleb. Much of the talk of men's issues is fine and good yet misses a massive point. The people in Plato's cave chained and watching the shadows,as if they're reality, are women. This is the crucial problem that I have never been able to fix. Why? Self-respect is an inside job. You cannot outsource but it they have. If you're a woman you're naturally wonderfully empathetic axiomatically articulate and brilliant.Really?
Not that I have seen in 80 years. Of course the response to any suggestion of such heresy is venomous and volcanic.
My life with women has been a Pareto distribution of parasites . Locked in syndrome writ large. No need for courage my PR sisters are all around. At least 80% of women I've known ( my maternal grandmother my mother my sister her two daughters my ex wife my daughter and another dozen damsels who have caused their own distress) have gone through their lives as pernicious pretenders. It was not that nothing I did could change the course of their sad and sorry lives it was as Max Scheler offered reacted to with resentment. Courage cancelled.
Think again Adam Grant hmm maybe