Warren Farrell Quotes
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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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Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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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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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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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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We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.
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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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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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So while in men’s magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women’s magazines love and sex are power tools to get success-and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.
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What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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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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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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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.
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If we want our children to have a balance between their abilities to earn money and show love, it will help if both their parents model that balance. – page 114.
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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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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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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.