Warren Farrell

Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.

What Men Would Say When Male-Bashing Is Called “Funny,” But Female-Bashing Is Called “Sexist”

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.

The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.

Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.

We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a “girl,” the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.

The more a man is trained to “be a man,” the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.

Misandry – or man hating – is the equivalent of misogyny. If you are unaware of misandry, welcome to the club.

Even allegedly gender-neutral words like “sexist” imply slights only against women.

The function of gossip is to create an “in group” bond by creating an “out group” enemy.

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.