Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits - Hardcover

Strausbaugh, John

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9781905264162: Sissy Nation: How America Became a Culture of Wimps & Stoopits

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ISBN 10: 190526416X ISBN 13: 9781905264162

Publisher: Virgin Pub, 2008

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Praised by the New York Times Book Review for being persuasive [and] provocative,” this commentary reveals in furious, funny, and ferocious strokes how Americans became sissified, soft, and scared and offers unforgettable solutions on how to snap out of it. The American Sissy cocoons in a safe, virtual world Fundadome. He plays with online friendsters and he plays with himself, anything to abate the pall of anxiety hanging over his head about everything from terrorists to spinach to air and sunshine. He votes for sissy leaders who bully the world sissies in tough-guy drag. He's so afraid of death and illness, he doesn't really live he overmedicates himself and overprotects his kids. And he's so busy preoccupied with the lives of the rich and famous that he forgets all about having a fulfilled life of his own. Strausbaugh leaves no sacred cow untipped. He is as nonpartisan as he is straight shooting, taking equal aim at Democrats and Republicans, gays and straights, PETA fanatics, and the Christian right. But all is not lost. Sissy Nation offers "modest proposals" for getting back the gumption that made this culture great.

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About the Author:

“Impassioned yet brilliantly humorous” (London Evening Standard),John Strausbaugh is a contributing writer to The New York Times and lives in New York City.

From Publishers Weekly:

New York Times contributing writer Strausbaugh (Black Like You) is fed up with the sissies of America. His distaste for our growing culture of fat, soft, stupid, fearful, whiny, infantile, narcissistic, fatalistic, group-thinking victims emanates from every page. Tracking the movement's origins to the conformist 1950s and its maturation during the Vietnam War-saturated 1960s and '70s, Strausbaugh satirically highlights what he perceives to be the major factors contributing to today's unmasculine man: conformity, religious fundamentalism and victimology. Strausbaugh seems to relish making politically incorrect and often crude analyses of America's cultural failures. His most provocative material concerns the treatment of real victims and grieving 9/11 families (his advice to alleged overmourners: Get over yourselves). His solution for ending the sissy epidemic is that offenders should simply stop their whining. Strausbaugh is too slap-happy at times, but effectively hammers home his point. (Feb.)
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