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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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" Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men. "

Warren Farrell

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Women

Yes

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders. "

" Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal. "

" I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" Men have not stacked the decks against women. "

" 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

" If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. "

" 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 likely to be quite generous, especially financially. "

" I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. "

" Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Warren Farrell

Man

" A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. "

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

" The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do. "

" 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. "

" Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. "

Warren Farrell

Than

Oppress

" We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship. "