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In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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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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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.
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Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.
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I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'
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A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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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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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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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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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being given up for a younger woman is for a woman.
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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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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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