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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].
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Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
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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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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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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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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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Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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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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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
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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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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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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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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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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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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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In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
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