"The male-female life expectancy gap has grown almost 400 percent."
Warren Thomas Farrell is an American author, educator, and activist who has written about gender, particularly men's issues. Initially active in the second wave feminist movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Farrell was a board member of the National Organization for Women in New York City and authored The Liberated Man (1974), which explored how traditional gender roles constrained both men and w
"ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving..."
"We have entered The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man."
"In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so mens [sexual] affairs did not put womens economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so mens affairs did place womens economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put womens economic security in jeopardy."
"Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my minds eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:"
"In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love."
"There are many ways in which a woman experiences a greater sense of powerlessness than her male counterpart: the fears of pregnancy, aging, rape, date rape, and being physically overpowered; less socialization to take a career that pays enough to support a husband and children[...] Fortunately, almost all industrialized nations have acknowledged these female experiences. Unfortunately, they have acknowledged only the female experience."