Warren Farrell Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

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  Independent, Men, Enough

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

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• Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

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  Divorce, Boxing, Legal System

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• Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

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  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

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  Men, Sound, Nails

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• Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

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  Men, Long, Perspective

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

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

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  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

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  Daughter, Dad, Father

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

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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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• 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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• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

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  Men, Rejection, Pay

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

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• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

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  Girl, Teacher, Children

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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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• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

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  Retirement, Children, Home

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

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• In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'

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  Smart, Rap, Men

  "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 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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• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

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  Baby, Home, Men

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

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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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