Warren Farrell: Trending quotes (page 15)

“In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money--not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending… 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied, ] 'it's not relevant to men.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 43.

Women , Men , Money , Marriage

“He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy — sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy — commitment.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 105.

Sex

“The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males….”

Warren Farrell

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Women , Men , Children , People

“Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being”

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a person who feels happy or sad
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Love , Women , Men , Sadness

“Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs—or ‘death professions.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 105.

Death , Men , War

“In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We’re taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 179.

Women , Men

“In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 288.

Women , Men

“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.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 112.

Love , Men , War , Parting

“What is the impact on our children of this international “Sisterhood is Victimhood” bonding?”

Warren Farrell

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Children

“In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters [reading "A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do] remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying "A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do…" or if "A Woman's Gotta Do…"”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 28.

Men , Reading

“In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 63.

Women , Men , Behavior

“All of these battered husbands are still with their wives. When a woman stays with a man who batters, we provide shelters to encourage her to escape. If she decides not to escape, we say she is a victim of “Battered Woman Syndrome."”

Warren Farrell

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

“By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 155.

Men , Home , Baby

“If we taught men to repress feelings and rewarded him instead for being a captain he might be willing to die to protect us; if we paid him enough to feed his family if he worked in a coal mine, he might be willing to die sooner to keep us warm. But all that required him to forfeit his feelings – his power as a human being – and substitute it for “power” as a human doing: feeling obligated to earn money someone else spent while he died sooner.”

Warren Farrell

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Men , Money , Family , Feeling

“Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 310.

Time

“Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.”

Warren Farrell

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Life , Sadness , Feeling , Happiness

“Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. xxii.

Women , Men , Hurt

“Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 123.

Women , Men , Way , Support

“The Male Teacher Corps not only exposes children to men from a variety of professions, but exposes children to men with more risk-taking, entrepreneurial male energy and values, creating a balance between exposure to the male and female value systems.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 116.

Men , Children , Teachers

“When our binoculars are focused on the dad as “deadbeat,” it often even leads us to missing concrete cues a dad gives to show his desire to be involved.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 106.