Warren Farrell on Time

"Programs like TANF and WIC subsidize the exclusion of dads. In effect, they create, as we have seen, future welfare recipients. Or tax spenders."

"In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them."

"By 2015, in good economic times, boys and men were committing suicide three and a half times more often than women."

"Humans have spent years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize."

"Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women."

"Divorced men are almost ten times more likely to commit suicide than divorced women from similar backgrounds."

"Killing the criticizer, then, is part of our evolutionary past; listening in response to criticism is part of our evolutionary future."

"The rate of increase in male suicide in India is growing at more than nine times that of female suicide."

"New York Times: Are Women Responsible for Their Own Low Pay?, an interview with Warren Farrell, 2005."

"The gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites."

"A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That’s 44% more income for 13% more time."

"Among former college players, 56 percent suffered from severe CTE pathology, which was associated with signs of dementia 85 percent of the time."

"In the almost 20 years following Australia’s change in gun policy, mass shootings fell to zero."

"Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn."

"Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women."

"The future will increasingly see the home place becoming the work place."

"Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides."

"Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health."

"A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share."

"In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103."

"Here’s why I predict emotional intelligence will be paramount for your son’s future: the more sophisticated artificial intelligence becomes, the more we will yearn for humans to fill the emotional intelligence void."

"In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the “fittest.” In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone."

"When unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child’s third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years—between ages three and five."

"Shifting our attitudes about the future of fathers requires shifting our attitudes about the way our fathers loved. Recognizing that the rigid roles of the past were not designed by men to serve only men is not unrelated to shifting our attitudes toward dad."

"Veterans of every war suffer Battered Man Syndrome in the form of posttraumatic stress disorder. The emotional consequences are also with them for years. But if a sufferer killed Admiral Zumwalt for ordering the spraying of Agent Orange, he would be convicted for murder. Men who suffer Battered Man Syndrome are not allowed to attack their abuser and call it self-defense."

"We are at a unique moment in history -- when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his -- the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed."

"Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life -- not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, “It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake."

"On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called nine-to-fivers. In stark contrast, women are more likely not to take risks, even when the risks are minimal. What's the message to our sons? Our praise of our sons when they risk physical danger teaches them that a willingness to be physically abused creates love. Abuse-as-love? Yes."

"During the past thirty years, the women’s movement has supported women to express virtually every feeling women felt. To other women. To Men. To society. Women’s feelings became course curriculum, women’s studies, TV specials, talk shows, and Lifetime cable. Women’s feelings were called both education and entertainment. Men’s were repressed until they were called ulcers."

"People Who Get Higher Pay Require Less Security. ITEM. It's 2004. I am presenting Why Men Earn More to the sales and marketing teams of my publisher . To illustrate financial risk as one of the ways to higher pay, I ask everyone in the room who is paid by commission to stand up. Eight men stand; no women. I then ask those paid by salary to stand: About equal numbers of men and women stand."