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Over the last few decades, a societal war on men has been waged. Masculinity is now toxic. Recently, young while males were locked out of much of the white-collar job market. Boys are in an educational crisis. Marriage and fatherhood are being devalued. Noticing these trends is discouraged, and opposition is disparaged.
The Relentless War on Masculinity: Does it Ever End? by David Maywald documents what is happening and why. He shows the legacy modern misandry has created, the tools fourth-wave feminism uses to maintain a gynocentric culture, the struggles men and boys face today, and what solutions exist.
Maywald opens the book by showing that in Western cultures — Anglosphere and Nordic societies especially — gynocentrism is real. He documents how courts, politics, education and job markets are stacked against men and favor women, often unfairly. He uses hard facts and statistics to buttress his arguments.
He then presents the fruits of the poisonous politics and disastrous social changes permeating modern Western Culture. He shows how feminism went from progress and equality to overreach and female domination of culture and society. He shows the dark side of identity politics.
He next examines modern feminism. He shows four tools they use to tilt the playing field: misandry, gamma bias, gynocentrism, and gaslighting. Misandry is the hatred of men, a core tenet of the most hardcore feminists. Gamma bias is a consistent asymmetry in observations and assumptions favorable to females. Gynocentrism is a focus and concern on female perspectives and interests. Gaslighting is psychologically manipulating someone to believe what is real is untrue. These combine to establish a society where women rule, and where questioning that reality is not allowed.
Even Maywald shows how many assumptions of modern feminism are internalized. At one point in the book he states, “Lonely single men are labeled as ‘misogynists’ while feminists are labeled by their opponents as ‘feminazis.’” But the lonely men are not the counterpart to feminists. Most lonely men are lonely involuntarily. Feminists are voluntary activists in the arena fighting for their supremacy. The two groups are not the same.
He closes by examining the struggles faced today by boys and men, and a final chapter on solutions to the problem. He posits that in an equal society, there are no losers; men and women both win.
The Relentless War on Masculinity is worth reading. Maywald raised valid and significant issues that merit consideration and discussion.
“The Relentless War on Masculinity: Does it Ever End?” by David Maywald, Celebrating Masculinity, November 2025, 146 pages, $17.99 (Paperback), $3.99 (E-book), $14.95 (Audiobook)
This review was written by Mark Lardas, who writes at Ricochet as Seawriter. Mark Lardas, an engineer, freelance writer, historian, and model-maker, lives in League City, TX. His website is marklardas.com.
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The modern woman, and especially the modern black woman, is the most privileged creature that has ever existed on Earth.
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As I was reading this piece I reflected on the fact that all groups which claim to have a history of being marginalized, Blacks, Alphabet people, Muslims, you name it, claim initially to want equality, but in the end seek dominance. Feminists are no different in this. And somewhere to the rear of each of these movements I sense the radical left not just supporting, but pushing as well. Additionally, my experience has been that even though these groups get an amazing amount of press, they all represent a very small percentage of the claimed group for which they say they speak. Their greatest advocates are in the two most leftist groups, media and education.
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Oddly, both education and media seem largely immune to market forces. They don't have to do a good job to survive and can spend most of their time on causes.
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I don't think it is odd. All you need to know is where their funding comes from, the left.
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