Warren Farrell Quotes
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Industrialization created the 'Father’s Catch-22': a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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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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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.
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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
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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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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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After a conflict, women are not only more likely to turn to other womenfriends for support, but are nine times more likely to be with their children should conflict become divorce.
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If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
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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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Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called 'Battered Man Syndrome'; it is called comedy.
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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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For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I-survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II-a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
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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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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.
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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.