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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.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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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 competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
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