Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things. Warren Farrell More Quotes by Warren Farrell More Quotes From Warren Farrell A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder. Warren Farrell average men years Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman. Warren Farrell accepted expectations men When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence. Warren Farrell divorce sacrifice reality Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights. Warren Farrell fusion males rights Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men. Warren Farrell perspective men long Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them. Warren Farrell priorities suicide want In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor. Warren Farrell race men past There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be. Warren Farrell hurt jobs men Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions. Warren Farrell jobs men war Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman--he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it. Warren Farrell doctors men sex Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash. Warren Farrell together feelings men The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now. Warren Farrell taken hero sex Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents. Warren Farrell growing-up rights children It is important for a father who feels pushed away [by the mom] to say, in effect, When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father, or I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks. Women cannot hear what men do not say. Warren Farrell mom father children One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success. Warren Farrell wife daughter men Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world. Warren Farrell feminism males female Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. Warren Farrell exclusion dad children Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter. Warren Farrell rosie needed men [With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life. Warren Farrell choices men children A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. Warren Farrell fantasy rejection men