Tied Up in Knots

How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable

By: Andrea Tantaros

Narrated by: Andrea Tantaros

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today's gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox News' most popular and outspoken stars, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too far, and how the unintended pitfalls of that power trade have made women (and men!) miserable.

In a covetous quest to attain the power that men had, women were advised to work like men, talk like men, party like men, and have sex like men. There's just one problem: Women aren't men. Instead of feeling happy with their newfound freedoms, females today are tied up in knots, trying to strike a balance between their natural, feminine, and traditional desires and what modern society dictates - and demands - through the commandments of feminism.

Revealing the mass confusion this has caused among both sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven't brought women the peace and contentedness they were told they'd gain from their new opportunities. The pressure both to have it all and to put forth the perfectly post-worthy, filtered life for social media and society at large has left women feeling twisted. Meanwhile, in their rightful quest for equality, women have promoted themselves at the expense of their male counterparts, leaving both genders frayed and frustrated.

In this candid and humorous romp through the American cultural landscape, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect in the office - where women earned it - made them stop demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love lives. The impact of this power trade has been felt in every way, from sex to salaries, to dating and marriage, to fertility and female friendships, to the personal details they share with each other. As a result, we've lost the traditional virtues and values that we all want, regardless of our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect, discretion, and above all, commitment.

With scathing wit - and insights born of personal experience - 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 that has traded kindness for control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy. Sorry romance. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over the telephone have been supplanted by the "belfie". All this indicates a culture that's devolving, not evolving. And it's only getting worse.

Tied Up in Knots is a no-holds-barred gut check for the sexes and a wake-up call for a society that has decayed - faster than anyone thought possible. It's time to remember what we all really want out of work, love, and life. Only then can we finally begin untying those knots.

©2016 Andrea Tantaros (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

Ever wanted to know about women?

I couldn't stop listening to this book. It Exposes the falshood in hypocrisy of the new feminist movement. However it discusses how women have the power To control men in the world if they would use the right tools and not try to be Like men. She is so insightful. I admit that I'm a little biased because I am a huge fan of her feistiness, her beauty and her strength. But she speaks like a wise woman of 60 and not 35. I sent this to my daughter, wife and her girl friends.

Proud to live on the same planet as this woman!

Good on you Andrea Tantaros you've done your family & countrymen proud.

You are the kind of woman our daughters and sons can look up to.

God Bless you and Keep You!

Great new perspective!

Andrea does an amazing job of identifying a serious problem that exists today. I myself am tied up in knots! I can relate to everything she describes in the book and I am sure the majority of females can. I enjoy her writing and her insights.

Lost cause

Things I would have never know about! This makes the world sound pretty bad!! Hopefully the young people will listen and do some thinking!!!

Enlightening..

I strongly recommend this for all men. You might just come away with a small understanding of our precious lady friends! Enjoy..

Andrea Tantaros gets it.

Very well written, raw real and HONEST. I only wish my 16 year old daughter would read it. The personal stories and life experiences shared by Andrea lend major credibility.

Great work Andrea

Awesome, really really, really informatively liberated, i think i love and adore you. Racey read here

Interesting Perspective

Andrea manages to straddle a rather contentious line with this book. She manages to thoroughly explain how the advancement of women was necessary, yet also expresses how it has diminished their options in a way. This book is also useful to men as a bit of a wake-up call to our own actions in the midst of the cultural shifts done by what she calls the "power trade"

great insight for guys to consider

loved it narrator was great making her points with the in depth observations and research. One disagreement, in my opinion, guys are wired for monogamy as well. That part felt like an over generalized dig rather than a literal fact.

Yes! What she said!!! good for women how?

This book puts it right out there. Miniskirts, no bras, 4" heels, free love, 2-income mortgages