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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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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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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
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Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
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When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.
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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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When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.
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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.
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In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives men should be learning from women.
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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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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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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.
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
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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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