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The Pocket Guide to Matriarchy & Misandry: How to Replace One Double Standard with Another and Call It Progress
Paperback
Series: Pocket Guide
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Equality was a wonderful idea. Then humans got involved.
The Pocket Guide to Matriarchy & Misandry is a satirical handbook for anyone who has noticed that modern gender debates have become slightly unhinged.
Inside, Geir Simonsen takes aim at misogyny, misandry, macho nonsense, performative feminism, dating double standards, corporate virtue, internet outrage, gender gurus, selective statistics and our remarkable ability to demand consistency from everyone except ourselves.
Meet the fictional Ministry of Correct Equality, where generalising about one sex is prejudice and generalising about the other is apparently research. Discover why equality becomes complicated the moment the restaurant bill arrives, why fathers can still be promoted to Assistant Parent, why every household eventually appoints a male Head of Wi-Fi, and why changing men to women in a sentence remains one of society's cheapest and most irritating philosophical experiments.
Nobody gets diplomatic immunity.
This is not a book arguing that women are secretly running the world, that men are uniquely oppressed, or that several thousand years of history should simply be ignored. It is a book about double standards, tribal thinking and what happens when good principles acquire convenient exceptions.
There are facts among the jokes, sources behind the Reality Leaks, and enough hypocrisy to keep both sexes comfortably offended.
If you recognise yourself occasionally, that's probably healthy.
If you recognise only the other side, you may need to read it twice.
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