Warren Farrell Quotes
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If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting.
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Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.
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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.
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Note the men’s fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to.
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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We’re taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.
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Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
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Any guy who’s played team sports has practiced a skill I call 'team sport empathy': he’s practiced focusing on anticipating the other team’s moves. That means figuring out their way of looking at the situation.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.