Warren Farrell Quotes
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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
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Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
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By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
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Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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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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Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.
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We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
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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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When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.
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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.
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The nature of men’s responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women’s responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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For me, the massiveness of what I don’t know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
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Men for whom divorce means walking out of their children’s lives except when they choose to see the children are the male equivalent of the adolescent feminists: men who want options without obligations. Morally, they have no right to walk out. A law that allows that is similarly immoral. 'Primary Parent' laws are just such laws.
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Men goeth to that place from which appreciation cometh.