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In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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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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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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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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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong' men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.
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Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
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Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return (.
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It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.
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[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.
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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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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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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
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Falling in love is biologically natural sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)
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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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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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