And there’s a male communication department in the government that focuses on how to protect the dignity and rights of men due to the increasing case of catcalling and sexual assaults towards men. There’s a part in the story when men were depicted as a victim of human sex trafficking. Some of the characters in the book did take the chance, they finally become the leader and boss that they always want in a pandemic when men become the sole victims.ĭuring my time reading this book, I couldn’t help but think: this is such a great bedtime story for feminists. Tea and coffee become a rare commodity, there’s a mandatory program for women to work as a mechanic and electrician, job vacancies are everywhere – ready to be taken. Sectors that previously filled by mostly men are dead, non-operational. Though not all of the disappeared males are missed, their absence does make difference in terms of psychological, physical, and economic. Almost everyone lost a husband, a son, a brother, a grandfather, male colleagues, male friends. Of course, there are despair and pain suffered by the women in the book. from the book “The End of Men” cHRISTINa sweeney-Baird The Women Left Behindįor the first time in the history of the world, women are fully in control of the way our stories are told. So, you can imagine by yourself what taboo things that we would dare to do in the name of humanity. In the book, you’ll find entries from the point of view of a female witness of patient zero, you can also read from the perspective of a female researcher who helps find the cause of the men’s deaths, a female historian that decides to write the entire story, even the one who created a rather-taboo program to ensure the existence of human race.īecause you know, in this book, men were gone, only 10% are left to give the women their sperms. So you’ll find more than one POV, mostly women (only one male survivor) that affected and became the key figures in history.

It’s like journal entries from several characters from the book. The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird was written in World War Z – Max Brooks style (and the author did confess it in the afterword – btw, read my review on WWZ here). The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird

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