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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman--he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
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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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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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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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Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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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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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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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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