Quote

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

Warren Farrell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
Activist
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Politician
Sociologist
Writer
Queens
New York
warren farrell
Pay
Actually
Woman
Women
Men
Bodyguards
Unpaid
Bodyguard

More quotes by Warren Farrell

Image
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.
Warren Farrell
Image
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
Warren Farrell
Image
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
Warren Farrell
Image
Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.
Warren Farrell
Image
Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.
Warren Farrell
Image
Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].
Warren Farrell
Image
I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
Warren Farrell
Image
Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
Warren Farrell
Image
By the 1970s, the American woman was being called 'liberated' or 'superwoman' while the American man was being called 'baby killer' if he fought in Vietnam, 'traitor' if he protested, or 'apathetic' if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
Warren Farrell
Image
The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
Warren Farrell
Image
The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
Warren Farrell
Image
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
Warren Farrell
Image
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Warren Farrell
Image
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
Warren Farrell
Image
Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell
Image
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
Warren Farrell
Image
The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
Warren Farrell
Image
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.
Warren Farrell
Image
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.
Warren Farrell
Image
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
Warren Farrell