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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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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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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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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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