I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Warren FarrellRead
So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
Interpretation
The quote highlights how laws that depict women solely as victims can reinforce negative stereotypes and hinder progress towards equality.
Warren Farrell argues that if laws continue to characterize women only as victims in need of protection, society will remain trapped in outdated sexist views. Instead of empowering women as equals, such legal frameworks risk perpetuating a narrative that diminishes their agency and strength.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about feminist legal reforms.
I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.
Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.
Life is more important than architecture.
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