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Both sexes work on their lines before they appear onstage. His lines are a lifetime of work; her introductory 'line' is her appearance—or her lack of lines. Just as careers give men power, so beauty gives women power. But just as the comparison between herself and the most beautiful women makes a woman feel powerless, so the comparison between himself and the most successful men makes a man feel powerless.
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When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman… Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest —when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.
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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.
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In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.
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Success as panacea and trap:
The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
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If we penalize mothers for denial of visitation time we must also penalize fathers who don't show up for visitation time. The issue is not fathers' rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with — divorce.
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Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.
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In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.
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Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money… as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work—and therefore as dads.
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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.
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There is virtually no funding to study the validity of the more muted complaints of men: to study when a false accusation is being used as a weapon to keep the children from dad; or when the child is being bad-mouthed by the other parent; or when access to the child is being prevented; or when statistics about deadbeat dads are including men who are dead, unemployed, or denied their children; or when men are victims of domestic violence.
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How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
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The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.
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When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train — even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation's best investment.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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What Men Would Say When Male-Bashing Is Called Funny, But Female-Bashing Is Called Sexist
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Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
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Veterans of every war suffer Battered Man Syndrome in the form of posttraumatic stress disorder. The emotional consequences are also with them for years. But if a sufferer killed Admiral Zumwalt for ordering the spraying of Agent Orange, he would be convicted for murder. Men who suffer Battered Man Syndrome are not allowed to attack their abuser and call it self-defense.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Warren Farrell
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Born:
June 26, 1943
(age 80)
Bio:
Warren Thomas Farrell is an American educator, activist and author of seven books on men's and women's issues.
Known for:
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1986)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (1998)
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