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The Myth of Male Power

The Myth of Male Power

The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex is a 1993 book by Warren Farrell, in which the author argues that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways.


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“The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 238.

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“Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 238.

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“Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 206.

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“The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 340.

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“If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 250.

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“• Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 295.

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“Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 230.

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“One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment."”

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 232.

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