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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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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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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 tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
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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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When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
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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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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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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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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
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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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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested therefore, she is not being trusted.
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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
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It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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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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