Frases de Warren Farrell

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“El hombre no oprime a la mujer más de lo que la mujer oprime al hombre.”

“El feminismo señaló el lado oscuro de los hombres y el lado brillante de las mujeres. Ignoró el lado oscuro de las mujeres y el lado brillante de los hombres.”

“En América y la mayor parte del mundo industrializado, el feminismo llega a pensar al hombre en un modo parecido al que los judíos eran pensados por los nazis.”

“Pasamos de una era en la que la biología de la mujer constituía su destino a una era en la que la biología del hombre es su destino.”

“Here’s the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power”

“As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.”

“Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.”

“Since 1954, then, approximately 70,000 women have murdered; their victims include about 60,000 men, but, as we saw in the second Item of this chapter, not one woman has been executed after killing only a man. For nearly four decades now, we have become increasingly protective of women and decreasingly protective of men—even if that boy is a legal minor, as was Heath Wilkins.”

“There is virtually no funding to study the validity of the more muted complaints of men: to study when a false accusation is being used as a weapon to keep the children from dad; or when the child is being bad-mouthed by the other parent; or when access to the child is being prevented; or when statistics about deadbeat dads are including men who are dead, unemployed, or denied their children; or when men are victims of domestic violence.”

“When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.”

“We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.”

“The hard part (of communication) is hearing criticism so it can be easily given.”

“The more chauvinist the country, the more it protects women. And therefore the more it limits women. Like the United States, [Italy, Spain, and Denmark] give women options without obligations. These countries are, therefore, still male chauvinist… The degree to which a country is emancipated is the degree to which it frees men from the obligation to protect women and socializes women to equally protect men.”

“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men’s safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women—and only women—it also leads to discrimination against women. …If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit…”

“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.”