Warren Farrell: Trending quotes (page 21)

“Many black men leave because they are financially responsible--not because they are emotionally irresponsible.”

“Framework, (…)”

“Healed people heal people.”

“While recess provides the playground in which bullying may be found, it is also the laboratory for reducing bullying.”

“The negative symptoms of the male culture are harnessed by the prescription drug culture.”

“Love doesn’t eliminate defensiveness, because love creates vulnerability, and defensiveness is vulnerability’s mask.”

“It is exactly this men’s health void that creates your son’s men’s health opportunity.”

“Veterans create privilege for all those who have not had to serve.”

“In my forty-five years of forming men’s groups, I have never heard of a man who was actively involved in a men’s group being hospitalized for depression, or commit suicide.”

“With confidentiality as the key, men’s groups open the door to men opening their hearts.”

“There is almost no difference in the percentage of men versus women experiencing depression.”

“Suicide is contagious.”

“Whether via forced unemployment, retirement, or loss of spouse, men’s response of suicide can just be the killing of what has already been killed.”

“The bully who is healed is the best protection for the bullied.”

“You can easily feel judged and alone if you are the only one to understand that your son’s anger is the mask of his vulnerability.”

“Flag football is so much more about strategy. You can’t ‘take someone out’ with your body, so it’s more about your mind.”

“Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.”

“We teach boys to associate being abused with being loved.”

“If a good woman is killed, a man is to blame.”