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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. "

Warren Farrell

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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. "

" 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. "

" Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day. "

" If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card. "

" 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. "

" Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. "

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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. "

" Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted. "

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

" The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. "

" My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. "

" 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. "

" I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. "

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

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

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