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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.
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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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He and she become selective at different points she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
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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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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.
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Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
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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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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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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men --When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, 'Well, it's men hurting other men.' When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, 'Well, it's blacks hurting blacks.' The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.
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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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Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
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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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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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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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