Warren Farrell Quotes
-
We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
-
When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
-
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
-
Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.
-
The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
-
Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
-
Becoming a human doing was exactly what society needed. But for an individual man, becoming a human doing was his undoing.
-
A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
-
This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
-
Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying 'yes,' then 'no,' then 'yes.' … Men are still expected to initiate, but now, if they do it badly, they could go to jail.
-
Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.
-
The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.
-
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
-
He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.
-
No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.
-
Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
-
The corporate Catch-22: Don't be flexible, lose good women; be flexible, lose good women... A company listening to women's desires for flexibility and therefore fewer promotions, giving fewer promotions to women, and then being sued for giving fewer promotions to women. Yiddish has a word for this: chutzpah.
-
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.
-
We often hear that mothers do the caring; fathers just do the playing. This is a false dichotomy - even a dangerous one - because fathers’ particular style of play involves both a conscious focus on teaching and, as the research is now showing, is instructive to children even when it is not consciously designed to be so.
-
In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
-
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.
-
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
-
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
-
Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.