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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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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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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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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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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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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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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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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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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 brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
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Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
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Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.
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