Warren Farrell's quotes

I'd read a few of these comments over the years and pretty much dismissed them as examples of "Lies, Big Lies, and Statistics", or taking a sense of pride in the Great Debate of Democracy -- where all ideas have a place.
Then I got a taste of the Australian Intervention Orders and how easily the magistracy is played for fools.
As a result, I have done a lot of reading on the issues of Family Courts and how they function around the world.

Now, I pay attention to Mr Farrell.
This guy decides to run for Governor of California again and I'm gonna vote for him.

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.
Warren Farrell

And pretty soon I decided that I was so interested in that that I changed my doctoral dissertation topic and I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the political potential of the women's movement as indicated by its ability to effect a change in men's attitudes and behaviors towards women.
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And the bad news is that almost all Promise Keepers are Christians or born-again Christians who believe that God intended men to be wallets and women to be child-raisers and protectors.
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And the reason that is ridiculous is because if you're approaching a problem with a lose-lose situation, you're creating a bigger and bigger problem.
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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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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
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At about the same time I was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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I said that when colleagues in the same company have sex together, it was like people in the same family having sex together.
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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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I'm a 100% supporter of the portions of feminism that are empowering to women and a 100% opponent of the portions that hone victimhood as a fine art.
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In a way, the entire book The Myth of Male Power is a 500-page debunking of the myth of men as a privileged class.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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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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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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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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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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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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Most men's issues people should be more involved in the introspective dimensions that are encouraged by the mythopoetic movements, particularly getting in touch with what I call their two F's, their fathers and their feelings.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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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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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
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The bad news is that we pay a price for that handling of rejection, which is the covering up of our sensitivities and the discounting of our feelings.
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The biology of women in a survival-focused world was the childraising and that left the social role of men to raising the money to support the biological role of women.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
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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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What I do in my writing is try to say things that are quite radical and about as radical as can be accurately backed up.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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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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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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