Words matter. These are the best Warren Farrell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Women and men look at their life, and women say, ‘What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?’ And women are intelligent enough to say, ‘I need more time.’ And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it’s a Hallmark card.
When women criticized men, I called it ‘insight’… When men criticized women, I called it ‘sexism’ and ‘backlash.’
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.
The only men who aren’t in fear of women’s reactions are usually men who aren’t born or who are dead.
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.
We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That’s been the misconception. It’s all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I’ve gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less – that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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.
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.
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can’t attack the data, attack the person.
A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
Women are the only ‘oppressed’ group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
I’m not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
Let’s face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don’t do.
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.
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.
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. ‘Use’ is a dirty word only when there’s an imbalance in the relationship.
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.
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.
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
The women themselves say they’re far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, ‘I’m far more likely to care about money.’
Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
