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

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.
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The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.
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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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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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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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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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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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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.
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Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
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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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When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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