Warren Farrell Quotes
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What Men Would Say When Male-Bashing Is Called 'Funny,' But Female-Bashing Is Called 'Sexist'
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.
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The 'enduring theme' in fiction of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
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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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The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren’t being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.
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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
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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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In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of 'relationship language' that nourishes the soul.
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Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.
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We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.
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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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Male Message 1 is subconsciously experienced by the boy like this: ‘Some girls in my class already look like movie stars. If they wanted me as much as I want them, then I’d know I was okay. They are genetic celebrities. I am a genetic groupie.’
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If our binoculars search for our partner’s best intent, it will usually be found.
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Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.
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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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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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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.