The Washington Post had an omnibus review (so Washington) of some male books. On Kathleen Parker’s, there was this:

Columnist Kathleen Parker goes many steps farther, taking too much of a giant leap for mankind in Save the Males: Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care (Random House, $26). Men are wronged in everything, she says, from custody battles (we are the presumed villains) to TV shows (we are doltish dads). Agreed. She’s at her best when shaming abortion-rights activists for deleting men from the conversation, and at her worst when detailing how women have diluted the military. Parker lards these touchier chapters with humor, but there’s not much to her core argument besides men need to be men, so let’s stop painting their fingernails. With Save the Males, Parker has spun one opinion column out to 200 pages.

As it happens, her best chapter (though it is hard to choose) is that military chapter. Her core argument is that we’re losing a most precious resource unnecessarily. It’s a funny, smart call to action.