Warren Farrell Quotes
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
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Misandry – or man hating – is the equivalent of misogyny. If you are unaware of misandry, welcome to the club.
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All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.
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Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
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Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.
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Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
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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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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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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
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If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.
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I could be a much better role model by sharing more openly with him my shadow side, my faults, my mistakes, asking him to be my teacher rather than being his.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).
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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.'
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Our children are better served by speaking not of 'visitation' versus 'custody,' but of 'parent time.'
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Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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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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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
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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.