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Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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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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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
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When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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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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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
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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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Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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