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The solution to all this is not criminalization but resocialization.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible--not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
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)
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)
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)
When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
Minimizing the role of sexual attraction in rape denies our responsibility for reinforcing men's addiction to female sexual beauty and then depriving men of what we've helped addict them to.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)
The Ms. survey can call it a rape; a relationship counselor will call it a relationship.
Spousal rape legislation is blackmail waiting to happen.
The Myth of Male Power (1993)