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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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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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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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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 give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men we all try the things that work.
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For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.
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Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.
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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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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize
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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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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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Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
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So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.
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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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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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