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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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" 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. "

Warren Farrell

Place

You

Women

" When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' "

" Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. "

" Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology. "

" 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. "

" When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. "

Warren Farrell

Man

" The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. "

" Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. "

" Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. "

" Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation. "

" I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket. "

" There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist. "

" In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. "

" Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. "

Warren Farrell

Engineers

Men

" Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards. "

" 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. "

" Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person. "

" Men have not stacked the decks against women. "

" In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. "

Warren Farrell

Socialization

Fact

" The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female. "

Warren Farrell

Working

Than

" Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child. "

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

" I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers. "

" The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.' "

Warren Farrell

Money

Care

" A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety. "

" Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies. "

" When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. "