Summary of Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The weakness of men is the facade of strength. The strength of women is the facade of weakness. Men have experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than women, and they have remained the silent sex because they have felt powerless.
#2 The question is how it is that if any other group is singled out to register for the draft based on its characteristics at birth, men call it power, but when men are singled out based on their sex at birth, men call it powerlessness.
#3 Men are the invisible victims of America’s violence. When you read that 84 percent of the victims were men and boys, did you think of women.
#4 The U. S. Census Bureau finds that women who are heads of households have a net worth that is 93 percent of the net worth of men who are heads of households.

Sujets

• Research
• Psychology
• Methodology
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398394
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The weakness of men is the facade of strength. The strength of women is the facade of weakness. Men have experienced a greater sense of powerlessness than women, and they have remained the silent sex because they have felt powerless.

#2

The question is how it is that if any other group is singled out to register for the draft based on its characteristics at birth, men call it power, but when men are singled out based on their sex at birth, men call it powerlessness.

#3

Men are the invisible victims of America’s violence. When you read that 84 percent of the victims were men and boys, did you think of women.

#4

The U. S. Census Bureau finds that women who are heads of households have a net worth that is 93 percent of the net worth of men who are heads of households.

#5

Women control consumer spending by a wide margin in virtually every consumer category. With spending power comes other forms of power. Women’s control over spending gives them control over TV programs because TV is dependent on sponsors.

#6

The Spending Obligation Gap is the difference in how men and women are expected to spend money. Men are expected to spend more on women, which creates the Spending Obligation Gap.

#7

The Catholic church acknowledged that it could influence a child’s life by shaping it during the first five years of life. However, it is the mother who has the most influence over her children, and she can make their bedtime earlier or take away desserts if they don’t obey.

#8

Influence power is not real power. It comes from caving in to pressure to expand obligations, but real power comes from controlling your own life.

#9

The 1990s saw the rise of Roe v. Wade, which gave women the right to raise children without their partners knowing. This forced men to take jobs with more pay and stress, which led to earlier death.

#10

The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men as rapists. However, the deaths of two firefighters did not make us more aware of men as saviors.

#11

The media has popularized studies reporting that women spend more time on housework and child care, while men spend more time outside the home. But this is misleading. Men do more hours of work outside the home than women do.

#12

Men have not yet begun to investigate their unpaid roles as women’s personal bodyguards and volunteer firefighters.

#13

The parallels between the oppression of women and blacks are not accurate. While both sexes were the other’s servants in different ways, no one realized how each sex was the other’s slave in different ways.

#14

Women are the only oppressed group that shares the same parents as the oppressor; they are the only group that can control who is elected to every office in virtually every community in the country.

#15

The difference between slaves and males is that African-American blacks rarely thought of their slavery as power, but men were taught to think of their slavery as power. If men were, in fact, slavemasters, and women slaves, then why did men spend a lifetime supporting the slaves and the slaves’ children.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Before World War II, some parents began to redefine love. But they could only do so after their last child was married off, like in the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

#2

The male midlife crisis is thought of as an identity crisis, while women’s liberation is thought of as an insight, self-discovery, and self-improvement.

#3

Stage II love is conditional. It is based on the couple expecting communication skills, joint parenting, shared housework, sexual fulfillment, joint decision-making, a spiritual connection, and mutual attraction.

#4

The marriage standards of a Stage I couple were very different from those of a Stage II couple. The very qualities that made a perfect couple in a Stage I marriage made them perfect for divorce in a Stage II marriage, because the standards were now contradictory.

#5

When workplace discrimination worked in favor of women, it was not called sexism. But when it started to work against women, it was called sexism. This is because women saw it as a threat to their control over their own lives.

#6

The life expectancy of women compared to men is a result of the pressures women face being focused on them. Men, on the other hand, faced new pressures that were not added to their life, but were substitutes for the old burdens.

#7

The entrance of men into Stage II was marked by the destruction caused by a dam, but not the creation of electricity by the dam, or the fact that women were the ones who demanded electricity.

#8

Today, when the successful single woman meets the successful single man, they appear to be equals. But should they marry and consider children, she considers three options: work full time, mother full time, or a combination of working and mothering.

#9

The feminist movement understood that it could appeal to all six classes of women by emphasizing expansion of rights, without emphasizing expansion of responsibilities.

#10

Divorce threw millions of women out of the Have-It-All class. But the woman who got divorced, more often than not, was tossed into the marketplace of men more addicted to two 20s than to one 40. She became angry.

#11

The road to high pay is a toll road, and pay is not about power. Instead, it is about the power we forfeit to get the power of pay.

#12

As women became more angry and hurt, they created an atmosphere that made it less safe for men to express their feelings. Men became more passive-aggressive, and felt that their only form of relationship power was not getting into one.

#13

The truth is that women have two jobs, while men have just one. Women’s anger was heightened by the belief that women were changing while men were not, and this was because of male complacency.

#14

After the divorce, women changed because their source of income was changed. Men, on the other hand, continued to face the same pressures to earn money, only intensified.

#15

When divorces meant that husbands no longer guaranteed women economic security, the government became the substitute husband. It guaranteed women equality in pay and an advantage in hiring.

#16

The generations will learn to love each other more quickly if we consider their socialization as Stage I Functional rather than labeling them dysfunctional. The children best able to pursue Stage II values today often can do so because their parents had Stage I values.

#17

The church in Stage I was designed to provide rigid rules and rituals to get people to make sacrifices for the next generation without question. In Stage II, questioning is needed to deal with life’s options, and rigidity is not suitable for dealing with life’s ambiguities.

#18

The father giving away the bride was a reflection of patriarchy, but the father giving away his responsibility to protect. The job of parents was to turn their son into a protector, not give him away to a protector.

#19

The sexual double standard is what protects women. Men can have affairs, but women cannot. And even if they do, they are still expected to be loyal to their husbands.

#20

When we think of political bosses, bribes, and patronage, we typically think of male power, male corruption, the good ol’ boys network, male chauvinism, and male dominance. However, in Stage I, political bosses, bribes, and patronage were acceptable not because they served men but because they served families.

#21

The qualities it takes to survive as a species are now compatible with the qualities needed to love. The challenge for women is to create enough economic independence so that they don’t compromise love for an economic safety net.

#22

We must be more secure that the male role in the past has not been just a way of keeping women in their place. We must address denying women the vote, treating women as property and second-class citizens, objectifying them as concubines, harems, and prostitutes, stoning them as witches, and not writing them into constitutions.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The best thing that can happen to a man is to die at the height of his glory and power.