When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex’s experience of powerlessness.
Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
Boys with a ‘failure to launch’ are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
All women’s issues are to some degree men’s issues and all men’s issues are to some degree women’s issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger – they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn’t a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.