Warren Farrell Quotes

"And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Saying, Statistics)

"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."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Income, Sexuality)

"When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Feelings, Care, Man)

"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
(Related: Men, Women, Fear)

"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
(Related: Legal, Power, Women, Feminism, Myth)

"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
(Related: Men, Women, Destiny, Today)

"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."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Sex)

"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
(Related: Family, Women, Balance, Being, Boys, Children, Girls, School, Teachers)

"Nobody really believes in equality anyway."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Equality)

"Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Sports, Men, Achievement, Balance, Focus)

"Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Day)

"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
(Related: Experience, America, Communism, Growing up, Hearing)

"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Building, Fact, Tools)

"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."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Thought, America, World)

"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
(Related: Man, Now, states, United)

"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
(Related: Sports, Women, Discrimination, Fact, Today, World)

"For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Success, Sex, Being, Example, Man, Woman)

"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."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Problems, Responsibility, Sexes)

"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
(Related: Family, Thought, People, Europe, Perspective)

"Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Opportunity)

"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."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Sex, Sexes)

"When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women, Fear, Commitment, Independence)

"Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Women)