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Warren Farrell’s thoughts point out that many men try to keep anger personal and stay fair in arguments. He argues that current sexual‑harassment laws treat men and women unequally, and that economic choices often give men higher earnings while women gain other benefits. He also stresses shared responsibility in families.

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

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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

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Men have not stacked the decks against women.

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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

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In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on…

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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his…

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In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being…

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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why…

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Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support…

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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life…

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The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by…

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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't…

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Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his…

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The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for…

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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or…

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Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or…

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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the…

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I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having…

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Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is…

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At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right…

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The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the…

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A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since…

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Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn…

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There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men,…

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When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early…

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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

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Men make more money but have lower net worths.

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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

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Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

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Men are not human beings,they are human doings

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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward…

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

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

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money,…

In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of…

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

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

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…

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

We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead…

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what…