Warren Farrell Quotes
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No movement calls migrant workers oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the 'fittest.' In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.
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We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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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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In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.
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When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters' deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving...
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman.
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The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
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If we believe that it is predominantly men who batter women, it is hard to see why women also need to change: We will continue saying, 'Just change the men. They’re the batterers.'