Warren Farrell
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Warren Farrell (b. 1943) is an American writer.
Farrell holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science (UCLA; New York University (NYU)). He taught at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and at Georgetown University, Rutgers, Brooklyn College, and American University.
With the publication of The Myth of Male Power, Farrell became the first masculinist. In the early 1970s, he was a champion of feminism, serving on the board of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Within a few years, he left NOW, frustrated with what he saw as their female exclusiveness and disregard for men's issues. His early books The Liberated Man and Why Men Are the Way They Are were more in the vein of a type of "masculinism" that has an approach to men's issues similar to that of feminism to women's issues.
His pioneering approach to sex issues has come to be the cornerstone of masculism. His ideology calls for gender equivalence and, unlike many other masculists, a reduction in traditional gender roles. He has made a critical examination of the power imbalance between the sexes, claiming that it heavily favors women: "The women's movement had done a wonderful job of freeing women from sex roles, but no one did the same for men".
Farrell was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election. He came ninety-seventh out of 135 candidates.
On May 27, 2005 Farrell appeared on John Stossel's "Give Me A Break" segment of 20/20 to discuss why men earn more. Farrell is seen speaking before the Cato Institute. He asked people to stand if they worked at least two years at a job meeting certain criteria: jobs which exposed them to wind and rain or long hours, for example. In each case, it was mostly men who stood.
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[edit] Quotations
"Women are human beings, men are human doings"
[edit] Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say
"The most important thing to understand about men is their desire to be understood..."
[edit] The Myth of Male Power
"If a man ignoring a woman's verbal 'no' is committing date rape, then a woman who says `no' with her verbal language but 'yes' with her body language is committing date fraud. And a woman who continues to be sexual even after she says 'no' is committing date lying..."
"We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting."
[edit] From Farrell's campaign statement
Farrell's "Top Ten Social Solutions with Budget Saving Results" that he claims transcend Democratic and Republican Party lines:
- a men's birth control pill and a paternity fraud bill;
- universal prenatal care;
- listening skills taught from first grade, with simultaneous retraining of parents;
- equal father and mother involvement, especially if there is divorce;
- more male teachers;
- stressing female empowerment rather than victim power;
- keeping taxes on businesses low;
- schools that are friendlier to boys;
- a commission on the status of men and men's health;
- restraining the Government-as-Substitute-Husband.
[edit] Published works
- The Liberated Man ISBN 0-425-13680-9
- Why Men Are the Way They Are: The Male–Female Dynamic ISBN 0-425-11094-X
- Myth of Male Power ISBN 0-425-18144-8
- Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say: Destroying Myths, Creating Love ISBN 1-58542-061-1
- Father and Child Reunion ISBN 1-58542-075-1
- Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap — and What Women Can Do about It ISBN 0-8144-7210-9
