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Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad find a woman who will support you.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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 male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.
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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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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.
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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.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.
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Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
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I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
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A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.
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Falling in love is biologically natural sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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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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Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
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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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Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.
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