Does make excellent points with humour and clear passion.

4.5 stars.

Yes this should not, as the author advises, be read in one go like a novel. Each topic needs a bit of consideration and thinking time, and I did find that ingesting over several days worked best.

I'm not a huge social media user so had not heard of the Man Who Has is All account, posts or following, but I quickly understood the concept and point from this.

By turning normal conventions, language and customs on their heads, it quickly becomes apparent that all animals are not equal and everyone has a role to play in helping individuals and society at large see - and do something about - this.

From the househusbands and men taking care of their appearance and language in the workplace to the missing female element from history, the writer flips everything around to hold the mirror up and show how one-sided it all is. And how unacceptable.

It was helpful that the author regularly comes in to tell us what sections are real life and which are her flipped satire, and gives examples of both.

A gender swapped world seems a mad place indeed. So why is the one we have not seen that way?

Loved the long reading lists at the end as well (was pleased I'd read and reviewed quite a few already!).

Excellent read.

With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample reading copy.

When an author advises you to read their book in little sessions, as Man Who Has It All does near the beginning of Flipping Patriarchy, readers would do well to listen. This book deals with heavy topics, and not only does reading it in segments give you time to ponder what you have read, it prevents you from experiencing overload.
I have been an occasional follower of the Man Who Has It All Facebook account, and have always found the posts to be bang on and amusing. The book is also those things, but it explores the subjects of discrimination and gaslighting, etc. of women far more deeply, making the book read more like a text book than satire. I found myself skimming sections as details of flipping the script on one point or another carried on far beyond the point where the author's point had been made.
This is a book that all men should be forced to read - because you know very few will read it without being made to. Perhaps include it in a school social studies curriculum, to open young minds and give conservatives everywhere another book to attempt to ban.
Thank you to #NetGalley for the ARC of #FlippingPatriarchy.

this was such an interesting read! It was eye opening and funny and sad at the same time. I like the way it called out some of the crazy backwards ways we live right now and how it is visibly crazy as soon as it is flipped with genders. It was a good one!

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complimentary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!

This is a gender-swap re-imagining of the white patriarchal world that's written with wit, charm, anecdotes, and plenty of research to back it up.

The author is the anonymous voice behind the social media accounts @manwhohasitall, and this book expands on the satirical posts they've been amusing us with since 2015.

Still relevant today, as the white patriarchal monolith continues on its seemingly undeterred path, the laughs keep flowing, and many readers will recognise the scenarios Claire and Liam find themselves in.

This was a very amusing read, but I'm very aware that it's written from the perspective of a white-privileged nuclear family.

It would be great to hear from the other perspectives and voices echoing through the void, too.


*I received an advance reader copy for free, and I'm voluntarily leaving a review*

For those who are looking for satire, online, you have probably run across @themanwhohasitall

This anonymous writer is on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X, and once you have read her posts, you can only laugh, and try to play along, as she shows how absurd society’s ideas of what women should be like is flipped on its head. Examples such as wondering why Liam, a character often used, can’t get his wife to help him out with childcare, or with household chores, or just about anything.

This book continues these stories, but also has documentation from where she got them, with a ton of footnotes, showing how women have had to suffer, so why not flip the scrpt, and show how odd it sounds when we have it happen to men.

Online, it is a game to come up with the silliest responses to statements she posts as the ever frustrated “man who has it all” that just can’t catch a break in his world of women who treats him like a sex object and a servant.

Excellent book to follow up on her posts, and see where she is coming from. And funny to read and a bit sad at the same time, as satire often is.

I sort of wish this had been written, the way she writes her posts, with no research, or back story, just fully immersed in the idea of the world of testerical men not getting their way.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book will be available on the 6th of May 2025.