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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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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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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.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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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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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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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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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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Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it.
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The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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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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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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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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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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