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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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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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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested therefore, she is not being trusted.
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But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.
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