Fifty years following Betty Friedan presented The Feminine Mystique, relations between women and men in America haven’t been more dysfunctional. If females are more liberated than previously, why aren’t they happier? In this surprising, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents, Andrea Tantaros, one of Fox Information’ most popular and outspoken celebrities, exposes how the rightful feminist pursuit of equality went too much, and the way the unintended pitfalls of this power about TANGLED UP in Knots: How Getting What We Wanted Made Ladies Miserable trade have made ladies (and men!) miserable.

In a covetous quest to achieve the power that men had, females were advised to work like males, talk like guys, party like men, and have sex like males. There’s just one single problem: ladies aren’t guys. Instead of feeling pleased with their newfound freedoms, females today are tied up in knots, aiming to strike an equilibrium between their organic, feminine and traditional desires and what modern society dictates-and demands-through the commandments of feminism.

Revealing the mass confusion it has caused among both sexes, Tantaros argues that decades of social and economic progress haven’t brought women the peace and contentedness these were informed they’d gain off their new opportunities. The pressure both to own it all also to help with the perfectly post-worthy, filtered lifestyle for social media and society most importantly has left females feeling twisted. I In the meantime, within their rightful search for equality, ladies have advertised themselves at the expense of their male counterparts, departing both genders frayed and frustrated.

Within this candid and humorous romp through the American cultural landscape, Tantaros reveals how gaining respect in the office – where women earned it – produced them stop demanding it where they really wanted it: in their love lives. The effect of this power trade continues to be felt in every way, from sex to salaries, to dating and relationship, to fertility and feminine friendships, to the non-public details they tell each other. As a result, we’ve lost the traditional virtues and values that we all want, no matter our politics: intimacy, authenticity, kindness, respect, discretion, and above all commitment.

With scathing wit — and insights given birth to of personal experience — Tantaros explores how women have taken guys off the hook in dating (much with their own detriment) and exposes how we’ve become a nation averse to intimacy and preoccupied with porn, one which has traded kindness for control, intimacy for sexting, and monogamy for polygamy. Sorry love. Sorry decency and manners. Long talks over calling have been supplanted by the “belfie.” All this indicates a lifestyle that’s devolving, not evolving. And it’s really only getting even worse.

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