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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds. (Warren Farrell)
When a parent denies a child its "parent time,” that parent is denying the child its child support -- its psychological child support. View quote
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. View quote
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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best. View quote
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The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours... It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children. View quote
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men. View quote
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Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women-and only women-it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit... View quote
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Many black men leave because they are financially responsible--not because they are emotionally irresponsible. View quote
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. View quote
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. View quote
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. (Warren Farrell)
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. View quote
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. View quote
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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. View quote
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Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Warren Farrell)
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. View quote
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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