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" Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal. "
Warren Farrell
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" So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past. "
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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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" When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. "
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" We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line. "
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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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" The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males. "
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" Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do. "
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" I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. "
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" In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. "
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" 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. "
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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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