“With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.”

— Warren Farrell, book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part IV: Where do we go from here, p. 357.

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