When women criticized men, I called it ‘insight’… When men criticized women, I called it ‘sexism’ and ‘backlash.’ Warren Farrell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We always look at the ‘Fortune 500,’ and we say, men in power, but we don’t look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren’t properly supervised for safety hazards. Warren Farrell Read Quote
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. ‘Use’ is a dirty word only when there’s an imbalance in the relationship. Warren Farrell Read Quote
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege? Warren Farrell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. Warren Farrell Read Quote
We take men’s obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don’t do it all, women just don’t marry men who are reading ‘I’m Okay, You’re Okay’ in the unemployment line. Warren Farrell Read Quote
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. Warren Farrell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
