It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. – Warren Farrell
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they’re willing to relocate and they’re more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology. – Warren Farrell
The women themselves say they’re far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, ‘I’m far more likely to care about money.’ – Warren Farrell
Once boys’ and men’s challenges are clear, the question ‘why now’ quickly becomes ‘why didn’t we see this sooner?’ The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. – Warren Farrell
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation. – Warren Farrell
The only men who aren’t in fear of women’s reactions are usually men who aren’t born or who are dead. – Warren Farrell
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive. – Warren Farrell
When women criticized men, I called it ‘insight’… When men criticized women, I called it ‘sexism’ and ‘backlash.’ – Warren Farrell
I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. – Warren Farrell
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn’t listen to other people, that they couldn’t hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize. – Warren Farrell
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. – Warren Farrell
I’m a great supporter of women who take risks and don’t make victimhood into an art. It’s not good for women, and it’s not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket – a woman’s basket. – Warren Farrell
I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes. – Warren Farrell
And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct. – Warren Farrell
So we’ve moved from an era when women’s biology was women’s destiny to today, which is an era in which men’s biology is men’s destiny. – Warren Farrell
Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. – Warren Farrell
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less – that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies. – Warren Farrell
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. – Warren Farrell
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it’s a Hallmark card. – Warren Farrell
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted. – Warren Farrell
Women are the only ‘oppressed’ group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. – Warren Farrell