Warren Farrell Quotes
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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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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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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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Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to.
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.
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Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
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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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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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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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The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. In exchange for forfeiting his primary fantasy, what does he hope to fulfill? His primary need: intimacy.
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If our binoculars search for our partner’s best intent, it will usually be found.
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We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.
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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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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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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.