Warren Farrell quotes - page 9

Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others. (Warren Farrell)
If our binoculars search for our partner's best intent, it will usually be found. View quote
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I soon saw that feminists who supported the "Primary Parent Theory” were not in favor of equality of opportunity, but of unequal opportunism. View quote
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When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty. View quote
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Schools currently excel in encouraging children to express opinions, but are deficient in encouraging children to say, for example, "Oh, that's different from my perspective – tell me more.”. View quote
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Note the men's fear that if they reported this to the authorities, not only would they not be believed, they would be ridiculed. View quote
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt -- species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values. View quote
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Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man. View quote
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Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying "yes,” then "no,” then "yes.” ... Men [are] still expected to initiate, but now, if they [do] it badly, they could go to jail. View quote
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It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness. View quote
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Technology is dad-at-home friendly. It allows the family to be more creative and role flexible than it ever has in the past without being poor in the process. (Warren Farrell)
In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the "fittest.” In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone. View quote
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The more a man is trained to "be a man,” the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child. View quote
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don't express them. View quote
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Men for whom divorce means walking out of their children's lives except when they choose to see the children are the male equivalent of the adolescent feminists: men who want options without obligations. Morally, they have no right to walk out. A law that allows that is similarly immoral. "Primary Parent” laws are just such laws. View quote
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The belief that women are discriminated against in the workplace reinforces a couple's tendency to have the woman stay at home. It is the tendency for women to stay at home that makes the workplace value her less. then, shortly after she is married, it begins to make sense for her to move for her husband's career, not for her husband to move for her career. Conversely, it makes sense for them to invest in his medical, law, or engineering degree--rather than hers... ironically, then, a reality has been created from a false reality. And, ironically, women's careers are hurt via comments meant to prod a society into helping women's careers. The road to hell is paved... View quote
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It is also possible for a woman to go back to a man's room, tell him she doesn't want to have intercourse, mean it, start kissing, have intercourse, and then wish she hadn't in the morning. How? Kissing is like eating potato chips. Before we know it, we've gone further than we said we would. View quote
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When I eat a meal, I think of all the people whose labor has contributed to my nourishment, and that thought nourishes my appreciation. I hope it nourishes you too. View quote
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Even allegedly gender-neutral words like "sexist” imply slights only against women. View quote
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Cosmopolitan is the best-selling magazine to single women. Cosmo tells single women how they can get a man to commit and achieve her primary fantasy of better homes and gardens. It's the single female's version of Playboy. Pornography is the male primary fantasy--access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection--at a price he can afford! View quote
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In a democracy, a government's policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned. (Warren Farrell)
The nature of men's responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women's responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings. View quote
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Women today are less than half as likely as men to work in excess of 50 hours per week. (Again, working women put in more hours at home.) It is rarer still for women to sustain that commitment for 20 years and then, without having burned out, increase her hours still more as a CEO. But exactly because it is rare, women who are willing stand out as more exceptional. Women, as it turns out, are far more 'European'--working to live rather than living to work. But the glass ceiling is rarely cracked by healthy, balanced people who work to live. View quote
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Part of what a good dad can do, then, is to make sure that his daughter also gets involved with team sports, and to help her with the lessons in life that are innate to any team empowering itself. –page119. View quote
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Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role -- especially when the other sex is around. View quote
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