3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell The only men who aren’t in fear of women’s reactions are usually men who aren’t born or who are dead.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell I’m an awfully loyal friend. Once I’ve started a relationship with someone, it’s like they are syrup and I’m a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell 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.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
