Quote

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.

Warren Farrell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
Activist
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Politician
Sociologist
Writer
Queens
New York
warren farrell
Challenges
Sooner
Clear
Quickly
Society
Son
Didn
Answer
Socializing
Every
Boys
Disposable
Men
Becomes
Virtually
Question
Sons
Answers
Survived

More quotes by Warren Farrell

Image
We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
Warren Farrell
Image
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Warren Farrell
Image
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.
Warren Farrell
Image
The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
Warren Farrell
Image
In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.
Warren Farrell
Image
Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.
Warren Farrell
Image
Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
Warren Farrell
Image
Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
Warren Farrell
Image
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.
Warren Farrell
Image
In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.
Warren Farrell
Image
When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
Warren Farrell
Image
Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
Warren Farrell
Image
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
Warren Farrell
Image
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
Warren Farrell
Image
Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
Image
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Warren Farrell
Image
When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, 'Well, it's blacks hurting blacks.' The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.
Warren Farrell
Image
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
Warren Farrell
Image
If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
Warren Farrell
Image
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.
Warren Farrell