
The Myth of Male Power

Feminism suggested that God might be a “She” but not that the devil might also be a “she.” Feminism articulated the shadow side of men and the light side of women. It neglected the shadow side of women and the light side of men. And neglected to acknowledge that each sex has both sides within each individual.
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Every woman knows that if there was only male birth control, she would not feel in control, she would feel out of control. “Trust me” from a man is laughable; “trust me” from a woman is the law. Birth control created the right of women to choose and the expectation of men to trust. Today, every man who puts a penis in a woman’s body also puts his l
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They see their sex being identified as the discriminators, rapists, date rapists, deadbeat dads, wife-batterers, sexual harassers, serial killers, greedy “banksters,” and unfaithful cheaters. It can feel as if they are at the top, bottom and middle of women’s “enemy list.”
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The bad news is that when an adult man complains, women hear whining—and no woman’s hero is a man who whines. For millions of years women got protection by choosing Alpha males, not whining males. A woman’s instinct to seek a killer-protector husband was part of her instinct to protect her children.
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Just because a man feels powerless does not mean a woman feels powerful. And just because a woman—or man—is perceived by others to have power, does not mean she or he feels powerful inside of themselves. This is a crucial message of this book because a core flaw of feminism was the assumption that because a woman felt powerless that the man must fe
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In this book, I define power as having control over one’s own life. The male obligation to earn more money than a woman before she would love him was not control over his life; in Stage I, neither sex had control over her or his life. And, as we saw in the opening chapter, both sexes had what was the traditional definition of power (influence over
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It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim. Or an example of an oppressed group which chooses to vote for their “oppressors” more than it chooses to have its own members take responsibility for running. Women are the only minority group tha
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In 1920 women in the United States lived one year longer than men.3 Today women live seven years longer.4 The male-female life-span gap increased 600 percent.
Warren Farrell • The Myth of Male Power
Why, then, did men’s life expectancy go from one year less than women’s in 1920 to seven years less today? Because men’s performances—inventing, manufacturing, selling, and distributing—saved women, but no one saved men from the pressure to perform. She went from being a baby machine, cooking machine, and cleaning machine to having time for love. H
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