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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.
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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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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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Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.
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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
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I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
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We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb then why would we allow a woman to determine a man's life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
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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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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company.
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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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Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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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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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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