Warren Farrell Quotes - Page 7

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• All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Winning, Men

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

  Warren Farrell

  People, Needs, Enormous

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.warrenfarrell.org.

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• Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

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  Father, School, Math

  Warren Farrell, James P. Sterba (2008). “Does feminism discriminate against men?”, Oxford University Press

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• In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

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  Past, Men, Race

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• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

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  Men, Engineering, Years

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• Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

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  Time, Children, Parent

  "Father and Child Reunion: How to Bring the Dads We Need to the Children We Love". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

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  Girl, Boys, Self

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• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

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  Men, Frustrated, Blame

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• And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

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  Europe, Issues, People

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• 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.

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  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

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  Careers, Safety, Choices

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.35, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family; parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.

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  Children, Father, Parent

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

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• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

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  Identity, Males, Midlife

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

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• Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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  Believe, Equality, Annoying

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• Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

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  Men, Personality, Roles

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

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• I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

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  Men, Emotional, Males

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

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• When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

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  Divorce, Makeup, Men

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

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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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  Men, Evil, Battle

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

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• I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

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  Mother, Father, Men

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• Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

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  Feelings, Looks, Sometimes

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.

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  Sex, Understanding, Solutions

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

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• Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

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  Men, People, Political

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

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• By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

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  Running, Husband, Father

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

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• Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately; conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.

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  Children, Confused, Men

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

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• We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

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  Sex, Abuse, Doe

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

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