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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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