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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. "
Warren Farrell
Focus
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" I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. "
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" For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles. "
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" 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. "
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" We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home. "
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" Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. "
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" Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. "
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" Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. "
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" 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. "
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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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" In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. "
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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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" Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders. "
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" I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes. "
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