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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

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Husband, Father, Political

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A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

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Play, Together, Tools

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

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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

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Son, Boys, Men

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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

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Men, Perceive

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[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:;: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.

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Violence, Principles, Defense

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

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Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

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Six, Victim, Homicide

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

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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

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Sex, Men, Should Have

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

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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

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Stress, Blood, United States

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

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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

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Husband, Divorce, Men

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

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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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Special, Guarantees, Constitution

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

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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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Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Men, Numbers, Safety

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

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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.

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Girl, Sex, Believe

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

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The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.

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Sex, Responsibility, Men

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

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The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned - allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.

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Daughter, Lonely, Children

"Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

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Men, Legislation, Form

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

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Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

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Jobs, Children, Men

Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.24, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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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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Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'

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Believe, Book, Reality

"Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

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Psychology, Survival, Firsts

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

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I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

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Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

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

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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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War, Self, Years

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

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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

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Children, Divorce, Men

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

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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

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Men, Individual, Surface

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

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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

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Past, Law, Long

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