Warren Farrell Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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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 theres an imbalance in the relationship.

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  Dirty, Men, Worry

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• When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

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  Exercise, Men, Height

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

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  Sex, War, Mistake

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• We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man's life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?

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  Men, Thinking, Fetus

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living. At age 30, when men can bury themselves in their jobs and are physically and financially attractive to women, the loss of the one woman a man loves is so devastating it is often not softened even by the opportunities for many women... in brief, it is the loss of love that devastates men.

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  Suicide, Jobs, Loss

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

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  Men, Thinking, Promise

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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  Men

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

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  Mother, Son, Preparation

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Men, Missing

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.150, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• 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.

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  Technology, Men, Mba

  "Are Women Earning More Than Men?". www.forbes.com. May 12, 2006.

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• Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.

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  Sweet, Men, Hands

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

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  Men, Desire, Confession

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

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  Keys, Wealth

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• The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

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  Children, Father, People

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• In a sense, sexual harassment lawsuits are just the latest version of the female selection process allowing her to select for men who care enough for her to put their career at risk; who have enough finesse to initiate without becoming a jerk and enough guts to initiate despite a potential lawsuit. In the past, though, the process of his overcoming her barriers was called 'courtship.' Now it is called either 'courtship' or 'sexual harassment'.

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  Past, Men, Careers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.

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  Dad, Men, Support You

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• Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

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  Men, Boys, Alive

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• We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

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  Men, Three, Eras

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.

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  Sex, Men, Today

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.

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  Couple, Divorce, Empathy

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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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  Sex, Men, Example

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

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  Husband, Men, Feminism

  "The Myth of Male Power". The Myth of Male Power, 1993.

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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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  Children, Divorce, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

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  Jobs, Men, Giving

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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