Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable Audiobook (Free)

Fifty years after Betty Friedan presented The Womanly Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If ladies are even more liberated than ever before, why aren’t they more happy? In this surprising, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, among Fox News’ most well-known and outspoken celebrities, exposes how the rightful feminist quest for equality went too much, and the way the unintended pitfalls of that power about TANGLED UP in Knots: How Obtaining What We Needed Made Women Miserable trade have made ladies (and men!) miserable.

Within a covetous search to achieve the power that men had, women were advised to function like men, talk like men, party like men, and have sex like guys. There’s just one problem: women aren’t males. Instead of feeling pleased with their newfound freedoms, females today are tangled up in knots, wanting to strike a balance between their natural, womanly and traditional desires and what society dictates-and demands-through the commandments of feminism.

Uncovering the mass confusion it has triggered among both sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness these were told they’d gain from their new opportunities. The pressure both to have it all also to put forth the perfectly post-worthy, filtered life for social networking and society at large has left females feeling twisted. I Meanwhile, in their rightful search for equality, women have promoted themselves at the expense of their male counterparts, departing both genders frayed and frustrated.

In this candid and humorous romp through the American cultural scenery, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect at work – where women earned it – produced them quit demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love lives. The influence of the power trade has been felt in every method, from sex to wages, to dating and relationship, to fertility and feminine friendships, to the non-public details they share with each other. As a result, we’ve lost the original virtues and values that people all want, irrespective of our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect, discretion, and above all commitment.

With scathing wit — and insights given birth to of personal knowledge — Tantaros explores how women have taken guys off the hook in dating (much to their own detriment) and exposes how we’ve become a nation averse to intimacy and preoccupied with porn, one which has traded kindness for control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy. Sorry romance. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over the telephone have already been supplanted from the “belfie.” All of this indicates a lifestyle that’s devolving, not really evolving. And it’s only getting even worse.

TANGLED UP in Knots is normally a no-holds-barred gut check for the sexes and a wake-up require a society that has decayed — faster than anyone thought feasible. It is time to remember what most of us really want out of work, love and lifestyle. Only then can we finally start untying those knots.