Warren Farrell Quotes
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The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.
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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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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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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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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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Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
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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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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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Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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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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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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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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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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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 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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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
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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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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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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 is the impact on our children of this international 'Sisterhood is Victimhood' bonding?
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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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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.