Summary of Rollo Tomassi's The Rational Male

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 The importance of fathers is a love-hate relationship in our feminine-primary social order. On the one hand, many people lament the lack of fathers’ involvement in their kids’ lives, especially boys’ lives. On the other hand, many people hate the buffoon, bumbling Dad who is always out of touch with the mainstream.

#2 When it comes to Father’s Day, most men receive a mixed message. While they are expected to be fathers, their masculinity is constantly being devalued and debased, and they’re expected to just get over it.

#3 As with all men, fathers are caught in the same Masculine Catch 22. They’re expected to be good dads, but they’re also expected to be good men, and being a good man is not enough to make up for the fact that being a good dad is expected of them.

#4 Fathers are crucial to a child’s life, but they are also seen as superfluous when it comes to raising them. The Feminine Imperative views fathers as a threat to its authority, while society at large believes that fathers are not necessary for children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669354550

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#1

The importance of fathers is a love-hate relationship in our feminine-primary social order. On the one hand, many people lament the lack of fathers’ involvement in their kids’ lives, especially boys’ lives. On the other hand, many people hate the buffoon, bumbling Dad who is always out of touch with the mainstream.

#2

When it comes to Father’s Day, most men receive a mixed message. While they are expected to be fathers, their masculinity is constantly being devalued and debased, and they’re expected to just get over it.

#3

As with all men, fathers are caught in the same Masculine Catch 22. They’re expected to be good dads, but they’re also expected to be good men, and being a good man is not enough to make up for the fact that being a good dad is expected of them.

#4

Fathers are crucial to a child’s life, but they are also seen as superfluous when it comes to raising them. The Feminine Imperative views fathers as a threat to its authority, while society at large believes that fathers are not necessary for children.

#5

The entire feminist project has been devoted to unseating the father from his role in the family. Now that they have achieved their objective, we can see the results. Men’s family authority is a liability for them, and along with that a father’s headship has lost all meaning.

#6

The conference in Las Vegas in 2015 was a humbling experience for me. I had not anticipated that more mature men would’ve been unplugged by their sons, but I met with several men who told me that The Rational Male would be required reading for their sons before they graduated high school.

#7

The first step in a hostage situation is to take away someone else’s power. In this case, it is male authority over children that is being taken away from men.

#8

Don’t put the children first, but also don’t put yourself first. Your mental point of origin should never waver from yourself, whether you’re single, monogamous, married, childless, or a father.

#9

A woman’s instinct to put her child’s interests above all else is a simple appeal to their children’s interests as being tantamount to their own or conflating them with their husband’s interests. Men are conditioned to accept this as the norm for the family.

#10

When you set the Frame of your relationship, whether it’s a first night lay or a marriage prospect, women must enter your reality and your frame. The same applies to any children in that relationship.

#11

Holding Frame is not about force or coercion, but about attraction and desire. It means that as a man, you have a solid reality into which that woman wants to be included.

#12

Establishing and maintaining a strong control of your psychological and ambient Frame is not just crucial to a healthy relationship, but it is also vital to the health of any family environment and the upbringing of any children that result from it.

#13

The primary problem men encounter in their marriages is that the positively masculine Frame they should have established while single decays into a Beta mindset and the man abdicates authority and deference to his wife’s feminine primary Frame.

#14

In a feminine-primary society, the question who is the man of the house. defines every aspect of a woman’s family life and development together.

Reviews for Summary of Rollo Tomassi's The Rational Male

[Themba Mhango · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Nicley done. Having read the book, easily brings forward the points that the author made and tests the memory whilst alighting some nostalgia.