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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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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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Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.
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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
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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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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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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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