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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Dr. Helen Smith, author of Men on Strike and author of the fantastic new book, His Side. Men speak out on dating, marriage,

and life in America. Hi, Helen. So nice to have you on.

Carol, thank you so much for inviting me on your show. I appreciate it.

I'm a longtime fan of yours. You and your husband are some of my absolute favorite people of

the internet that I've met. And I'm very excited about

your new book and think it's addressing something that needs addressing. And I wanted to read

just a little bit from your book because it really struck me that most men in America

accept the fact that they are often treated as second-class citizens

without questioning what is happening and why, or they understand it and feel nothing can

be done, the system is stacked against them.

How did this happen?

Where did men lose their way or where did the society lose the men? Yeah, I think it's the latter. I think society

kind of lost men. You know, we have all these experts and people that come out and talk about how men have

lost their way and how they're all a bunch of failures, this, that, and the other. It's been going on for a long

time. Honestly, I think since the 60s are probably, you know, where there's this big political shift,

and I know you do a lot on politics and that sort of thing, but we've seen this political

shift, and that's what my first book was about, Men on Stroth, which looked at, I wrote that in

2012, 2013, it came out. But it looked at that societal shift that happened in the 60s, shifting

over to, it's almost like our whole society has changed over to everybody thinking that men are horrible and denigrating men.

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