Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
— Warren Farrell
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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.
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.
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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.
And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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.
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.
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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.
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.
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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.
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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.
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
