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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Warren Farrell

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Warren Farrell

Socialization

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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