Warren Farrell Quote
Women are the only oppressed group to share the same parents as the oppressor; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the oppressor; to own more of the culture’s luxury items than the oppressor; the only oppressed group whose unpaid labor enables them to buy most of the fifty billion dollars’ worth of cosmetics sold each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than their oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV during every time category than their oppressors.33 Feminists often compare marriage to slavery—with the female as slave. It seems like an insult to women’s intelligence to suggest that marriage is female slavery when we know it is 25 million American females34 who read an average of twenty romance novels per month,35 often with the fantasy of marriage. Are feminists suggesting that 25 million American women have enslavement fantasies because they fantasize marriage? Is this the reason Danielle Steele is the best-selling author in the world?
Women are the only oppressed group to share the same parents as the oppressor; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the oppressor; to own more of the culture’s luxury items than the oppressor; the only oppressed group whose unpaid labor enables them to buy most of the fifty billion dollars’ worth of cosmetics sold each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than their oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV during every time category than their oppressors.33 Feminists often compare marriage to slavery—with the female as slave. It seems like an insult to women’s intelligence to suggest that marriage is female slavery when we know it is 25 million American females34 who read an average of twenty romance novels per month,35 often with the fantasy of marriage. Are feminists suggesting that 25 million American women have enslavement fantasies because they fantasize marriage? Is this the reason Danielle Steele is the best-selling author in the world?
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His books cover history, law, sociology and politics (The Myth of Male Power); couples' communication (Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, and Father and Child Reunion); economic and career issues (Why Men Earn More); child psychology and child custody (Father and Child Reunion); and teenage to adult psychology and socialization (Why Men Are The Way They Are, The Liberated Man and Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men). All of his books are related to men's and women's studies, including his March 2018 publication The Boy Crisis.