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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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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.
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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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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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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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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.
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If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
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Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
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Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow.' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.'
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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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 male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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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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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.
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