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Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce my partner understands me.
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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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And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested therefore, she is not being trusted.
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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence they only keep men from complaining about it.
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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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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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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.
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In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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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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