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Title: reprehensible
Review: According to the vile and pernicious authors of this dangerous work, "The Rules are innately unselfish" (66). This is a rancid mix of understatement and revealing untruth. The "unselfishness" of The Rules translates into the total erasal of individuality and obliteration of the self in order to achieve an arbitrary goal through a misguided, manipulative, and cultish method. That same "unselfishness" also represents the insane fixation upon a goal exterior to oneself, where a woman takes that goal and shoves an unsuspecting man into it, thus using a human being as a means to an ultimately selfish end. The Rules is a great book for wiping out all that matters in human interaction.Fein and Schneider take a few basic psychological principles, misinterpret them, and derive from them a system of self-repression and a totally untenable attitude toward life and love, damaging to everyone but to no one more than the "Rules girl" herself.
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