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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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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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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence they only keep men from complaining about it.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being given up for a younger woman is for a woman.
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Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
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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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The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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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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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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Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
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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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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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