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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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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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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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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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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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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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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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