Warren Farrell Quotes
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Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
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Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.
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We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team -or our society -could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Part of what a good dad can do, then, is to make sure that his daughter also gets involved with team sports, and to help her with the lessons in life that are innate to any team empowering itself. –page119.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances.