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Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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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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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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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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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
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The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.
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Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
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The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.
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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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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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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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