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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
Killing the criticizer, then, is part of our evolutionary past; listening in response to criticism is part of our evolutionary future.
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Among former college players, 56 percent suffered from severe CTE pathology, which was associated with signs of dementia 85 percent of the time.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Emma Bovary had everything, and therefore nothing.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
We spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have—the time their children need.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite to success.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
In a Stage II world, in communities in which survival is mastered enough to create a balance with self-fulfillment, we have the option of “relationship language” that nourishes the soul.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)
In aggregate, these jobs might be thought of as “glass cellar” jobs—all-male, because it is almost exclusively our sons who are willing to risk death so their family will have a better life.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. In exchange for forfeiting his primary fantasy, what does he hope to fulfill? His primary need: intimacy.
Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)
When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
In the almost 20 years following Australia’s change in gun policy, mass shootings fell to zero.
The Boy Crisis (2018)