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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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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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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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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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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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It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.
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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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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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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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The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
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A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man the bone of a woman, the bone of a man the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.
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A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.
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When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
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Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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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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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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