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Richard Rohr, Der wilde Mann. Geistliche Reden zur Männerbefreiung, Claudius Verlag München, 7. Auflage 1988
Wilfried Wieck, Männer lassen lieben. Die Sucht nach der Frau, Fischer Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 1988
Wilfried Wieck, Wenn Männer lieben lernen, Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990
Dr. Robert Moore. (1942-2016) US-amerikanischer Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Professor für Psychologie, Berater, Autor, Douglas Gilette, Mitautor, König, Krieger, Magier, Liebhaber. Die Stärken des Mannes, Kösel Verlag, München, 1992
Robert Bly (*1926) US-amerikanischer Aktivist, Führer des Mythopoetic Men's Movement, Dichter, Schriftsteller, Eisenhans. Ein Buch über Männer, Kindler Verlag München, 1993, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Neuauflage 2005
Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen, US-amerikanische Jungsche Analytikerin, Frauenforscherin, weise Frau, sprituelle Lehrerin, Autorin, Götter in jedem Mann. Besser verstehen, wie Männer leben und lieben [1991] Sphinx Verlag, Basel, 1994, Heyne, 1998
Ton van der Kroon, Die Rückkehr des Löwen. Von Liebe, Lust und Herzenspower. Ein Buch für Männer, Bauer Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2. Auflage 1999
Dietrich Schwanitz, Männer. Eine Spezies wird besichtigt, Eichborn Verlag, April 2001
Steve Biddulph (*1953) britisch-australischer Familienpsychologe- und therapeut, Männerforscher und -aktivist, Männer auf der Suche. Sieben Schritte zur Befreiung, Heyne Verlag, September 2003

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Zitate zum Thema Männer und Männerliteratur / Men and men's literature

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Zitate allgemein

Die fünf wesentlichen gravierenden Wahrheiten der männlichen Initiation (im Westen) sind:

1. Das Leben ist hart.
2. Du bist nicht wichtig.
3. Dein Leben dreht sich nicht um dich.
4. Du hast keine Kontrolle.
5. Du wirst sterben.

Richard Rohr (*1943) US-amerikanischer Franziskanerpater, Prediger, Autor, Adam's Return. The Five Promises of Male Initiation, Überschriften von fünf Kapiteln (Inhaltsverzeichnis), The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2. November 2004

Manche Männer versuchen ihr Leben lang, die Frauen zu verstehen, andere begnügen sich mit einfacheren Dingen wie der Relativitätstheorie. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Nobelpreisträger in Physik, 1921, Quelle unbekannt

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Zitate von Warren Farrell (Amerikanische Männerbewegung)

Von der Dominanzgesellschaft zur partnerschaftlichen Paradigma

DOMINANZ / UNTERWERFUNG Überlebensbedingte Abhängigkeit Entwicklungsstufe 1 ✰	PARTNERSCHAFT Gleichgewicht zwischen Überleben und Erfüllung durch gegenseitige Fürsorge Entwicklungsstufe 2 ✰ ✰
Mann und Frau waren Rollen-Partner.	Mann und Frau werden Seelen-Partner sein.
Killer-Zerstörer-Beschützer-Mann Paare aus allen Gesellschaftsschichten	Empathischer netzwerkender redegewandter Mann Paare aus mittleren und gehobenen Gesellschaftsschichten
Getrenntes Lieben Arbeitsteilung – Spaltung der Interessen Frauen betreuten die Kinder. Männer beschafften das Geld.	Vereintes Lieben Gemeinsame Interessen und Werte – Würde für alle

Vergangenheit 50.000 Jahre	Zukunft Seit den 50er Jahren
In der Vergangenheit führte die Entscheidung für einen Killer-Mann zur Idee des 'Überleben des Stärkeren'.¹	Angesichts der nuklearen Technologie kann die Entscheidung für den Zerstörer-Mann die mögliche Vernichtung der Menschheit in der Zukunft herbeiführen. Somit wurde das, was ehemals funktioniert hat, dysfunktional. [Die Zukunft ist offen für die Idee der gegenseitigen Fürsorge.]
In der Vergangenheit mussten sich die Männer von ihren Gefühlen abschneiden, ansonsten wären sie nicht dazu zu bewegen gewesen zu sterben, um ihre Familie und Gemeinschaft zu beschützen. Deshalb mussten sich Frauen in Männer verlieben, die ihrem Wesen nach zur Liebe unfähig waren.	In Zukunft können Frauen es sich leisten, sich immer seltener in den Killer-Beschützer und immer öfter in den Anteilnehmenden-Vermittler zu verlieben.
In der Vergangenheit waren sowohl das Überleben, die Ehe als auch die Familie auf den Killer-Mann angewiesen.	In Zukunft werden sowohl das Überleben, die Ehe als auch die Familie auf den gesprächsfreudigen Mann angewiesen sein.

Quelle: ► Audiointerview mit Dr. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US-amerikanischer Politikwissenschaftler, Sprecher der Männerbefreiungsbewegung, Männerrechtler, ehemals Direktor der National Organisation for Women, Referent, Autor,
The Myth of Male Power, Teil 6 von 19, präsentiert von Simon & Schuster Audio, Gastgeber Tom Howard,
Minute 8:38, 10:00 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 10. Juli 2008

Siehe auch: ► Sex – Leidenschaft – Hingabe ↔ Integration Abhängigkeit – Unabhängigkeit – Interdependenz und ► Männer

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Liberating impact of feminism:

Feminist/masculinist movements are liberating democracy from patriarchy.

Feminism is one of the great liberation movements in human history. [Feminism] is the movement to liberate democracy from patriarchy. It's not a problem of women and men, it's not a battle between women and men. It's seeing the effects of patriarchy on both women and men which are different. It's seeing how much the gender binary and gender hierarchy are fueling violence and a whole set of the ethical problems that are in front of us today, because in part by blunting our capacity to know what we know and to respond to what we know. Video presentation by / Q&A with Carol Gilligan, Ph.D. webster.edu (*1936) US American professor of gender studies, psychologist, feminist, ethicist (community, relationships), writer, Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance, sponsored by The Dalai Lama Center For Ethics and Transformative Values MIT World, minute 1:08:04, 1:10:34 duration, recorded 24. April 2009, uploaded 23. December 2011

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Fathering resolves the cult of masculinity.

As long as there is male dominance some sex will be violent, violence will be sexualized, and children will be victimized. […] If you [men] can't get the proper dominance from grown-ups you [they] turn to [sexual abuse of] children. […] We need to understand the whole cult of masculinity. […] The way out of this cult of masculinity is men raising children as it causes them to become whole human beings. […] The fathering revolution is partly here.
[Paraphrased] The task ahead is to humanize the traditional gender roles rooted in the deepest source of violence required by masulinity and supported by femininity. Video presentation by Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, The Future of Feminism, presented at "The Power of Women's Voices" Conference for the 65th Anniversary of the Sophia Smith Collection Women's History Archive, sponsored by Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, minute 43:47, 54:32 minutes duration, 28. September 2007

Literary quotes

"Men," said the fox, "they have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests." [...]
"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French aviator, writer, The Little Prince, chapter 21 "The Little Prince and the Fox", Reynal & Hitchcock, September 1943

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Quotes by women / Frauen

Personal avowals

Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation. Anne Lamott (*1954) US American recovering conversed alcoholic, bestselling author, Operating Instructions. A Journal of My Son's First Year, Anchor, 1. May 1993, 2nd edition 8. March 2005

[T]he male wounding is VERY, VERY DEEP. [...] To be a man and to be asked to reclaim the energy of the heart is brutally difficult. It's easier for women to buck their conditioning and stand in their power than it is for men to reclaim the energy of the heart. Lucia René, US American mystic, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's and gender transition activist, author of Unplugging the Patriarchy, excerpted from teleseminar Women on the Edge of Evolution, MP3, spring 2010

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Clarification:

Dignity is not right or left, white or black, male or female, superior or inferior, conservative or progressive. It's nonpartisan. The more accurate term for "egalitarian society" is dignitarian society.

Women are now on the frontlines of consciousness. Until women reclaim their power, throw off their conditioning of being second class citizens, and really move out on the frontlines men won't have a chance to react to that and to open up the emotional body and to process their reaction to the second class citizen. Now we are coming into equality. [...]
The oppressed must throw off the yoke and say 'No more! I am going to stand!' [...] If I simply stand and I meet your energy with exactly the right amount of energy that you are projecting at me to counter it... It is very gandhiesque what I am proposing that women simply stand and allow men to react, allow men to process what they need to process in order to reclaim their heart and come into a more humble state of mind where they are ready, willing, and able to come to the table and accept women as equals and to co-create an egalitarian society. [...] Everyone is needed. There's no right and wrong here. We have all bought into this out of balance system. But really, it is women who must make the first move and be strong enough to allow men to then react against that.
Video interview with Lucia René, US American mystic, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's and gender transition activist, author, Unplugging the Patriarchy, presented by Project Avalon, host Bill Ryan, YouTube film, minute 0:41:25, 1:24:22 duration, posted 27. March 2011

You can retrain brain circuits to do a variety of things [...] and all of our lives we can be gender trained to be more one way or the other.
When they put electrodes on males and show them a gruesome photograph that is supposed to make you cringe and emotional their facial expressions versus the females' actually show more emotional response in the time before it becomes conscious. And right after the one second level when it becomes conscious they start to freeze down their facial muscles for frowning or smiling. Females' facial muscles actually amplify and the males' go down. The hypothesis of scientists is that males have been trained to suppress their emotional feelings. Louann Brizendine, M.D., Ph.D. louannbrizendine.com (*1952) US American neuropsychiatrist, professor of neurobiology, UC Berkeley, founder of the first US clinic to study and treat women's brain functions, lecturer, author, Gender Identity. Is Nature vs. Nurture Dead?, recorded by the event video production company Fora.tv, 31. March 2010, YouTube, minute 2:28, 3:45 minutes duration, posted 3. May 2010

Yes, men and boys receive privilege and status from patriarchy, but it is a poisoned privilege for which they pay a heavy price. If traditional, patriarchal socialization takes aim at girls' voices, it takes aim at boys' hearts – makes them lose the deepest, most sensitive and empathic parts of themselves. Men aren't even allowed to be depressed, which is why they engage so often in various forms of self-numbing, from sex to alcohol and drugs to gambling and workaholism. Patriarchy strikes a Faustian bargain with men. Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, political activist, philanthropist, writer, Jane Fonda's Speech at the National Women's Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C., 12. June 2003

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Women are the guardian of connection, men are connectable by instruction.

Men, when they are upset, don't like to talk. Women like to talk when they are upset. You're the guardian of connection, and he is connectable by instruction. So stay positive. And remember, men do not know how they feel or they would tell us. Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil, Ph.D., US American family and relationship therapist, author, How can I get my husband to tell me what's wrong so I don't have to ask him? Disconnected, YouTube film, minute 0:56, 2:01 minutes duration, posted 13. February 2012

Human males, like many other male primates, are instinctively motivated by a drive for status or dominance. The male social world is saturated with behaviors driven by status seeking. Men jostle with each other daily, if not hourly, to gain as much status as they can and to avoid losing the status they have. Judith L. Hand, US American evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist (ethologist), novelist, pioneer in the emerging field of peace ethology, author of Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace (2003), The Secret Ingredient. The Pivotal Catalyst for Change and Longterm Stability, 2005-2017

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Quotes by men / Männern

Personal awovals

I personally believe that 99.99% of all cocaine and meth use in men is about one thing: sex.
And 99.99% of that sex is about one thing: rage. Video Meth keynote address by Kevin McCauley, M.D., US American addiction researcher and therapist, The Institute For Addiction Study, Is Addiction Really a Disease? Dr. Kevin McCauley, sponsored by the Meth Action Coalition Meth Summit, 2007, minute 1:08:40, 1:12:13 minutes duration, posted 25. June 2015

I grew up to have my father's looks – my father’s speech patterns – my father's posture – my father's walk – my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father. Jules Feiffer (*1929) US American syndicated cartoonist, satirist, author, Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1986, source unknown

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Seducibility of holy men

Is there any man who has ever gone through a whole lifetime without dressing himself up, in his fancy, in the habit of a monk and enclosing himself in a cell where he sits magnificent in heroic austerity and solitude, while all the young ladies who hitherto were cool to his affections in the world come and beat on the gates of the monastery crying, "Come out, come out!" Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic Trappist monk, mystic student of comparative religion, social activist, poet, writer, autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Harcourt Brace, 11. October 1948

Conclusion

Men do not hate women; men need women. Men hate needing. Jules Feiffer (*1929) US American syndicated cartoonist, satirist, author, Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1986, source unknown

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Testosterone – FIKI

Testosterone basically has two, and only two, major drives: fuck it or kill it. And males are saddled with this biological nightmare almost from day one, a nightmare women can barely imagine (except when they are given testosterone injections for medical purposes, which drives them nuts. As one woman put it, "I can’t stop thinking about sex. Please, can’t you make it stop?") ⚡ Ken Wilber (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, developer of Integral Theory, author, A Brief History of Everything, S. 5-6, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 1996, 2nd edition 6. February 2001

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True love is the true authority of a man over a woman.

To be a fully integrated male, a man has to assimilate in his body the divine female energies that woman can only release to him through right physical lovemaking. But the man has to be man enough. He has to be able to love her enough; that is, love her selflessly during the actual act of lovemaking. He has to be able to absorb and express sufficient love in his body to reach the highest part of her, and love enough to extract the divine energies from her deepest center. To be able to love in this way is his only true authority over woman. Barry Long (1926-2003) Australian spiritual teacher, tantra teacher, press secretary, editor, writer, source unknown

[The possibility of the 'wildman' is] the possibility that the deep, nourishing and spirituality radiant energy in the male lies not in the feminine side, but in the deep masculine. [...] Now that so many men are getting in touch with their feminine side, we're ready to start seeing the wildman and to put his powerful, dark energy to use. Robert Bly (*1926) US American activist, leader Mythopoetic Men's Movement, poet, author, source unknown

Generally, a mood will run its course in an inteligent man; if a woman doesn't puncture it prematurely, the man will puncture it himself. He will regain his senses somewhere along the way; he will say, "Now wait, we had better think about this." That is, if his wife hasn't said five minutes before, "Now, dear, don't you think we had better think about this?" Because then he won't, of course.
If a woman is needling, it is doubly hard for a man to come out of a mood. That intensifies it. A man is really in a kind of travail when he is in a mood. He needs help, not needling, but feminine help. He probably won't thank you for it, but inside he will be awfully grateful.
When a woman has to deal with a man in a mood, she generally does the wrong thing. She generally gets her animus out, that nasty thing, and says, "Now, look, this is utter nonsense, stop it. We don't need any more fishline leader.
That is just throwing gasoline on the fire. There will be an anima-animus exchange, and all will be lost. The two are in the right hand and in the left hand of the goddess Maya, and you might as well give up for the afternoon.
There is, however, a point of genius that a woman can bring forth if she is capable of it and willing to do it. If she will become more feminine than the mood attacking the man, she can dispel it for him. But this is a very, very difficult thing for a woman to do. Her automatic response is to let out the sword of the animus and start hacking away. But if a woman can be patient with a man and not critical, but represent for him a true feminine quality, then, as soon as his sanity is sufficiently back for him to comprehend such subtleties, he will likely come out of his mood.
A wife can help a great deal if she will function from her feminine side in this way. She has to have a mature feminity to do this, a femininity that is strong enough to stand in the face of this spurious femininity the man is producing. Robert A. Johnson (*1921) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, He. Understanding Masculine Psychology, 1974, Harper Collins, March 1987

Men have been programmed by society not to be intimate.
What do men want from women? – Sex.
What do women want from men? – Security and Money.
What kind of relationship does that make? – Prostitution.
We [men] lie a lot. [...] We are gonna fake it. [...] Truthfully what we [men] want is the same that you [women] want. Men are women turned inside out. We are. Audio interview with Dr. Stan Dale (1929-2007) US American sex, love and intimacy expert, founder of Human Awareness Institute, Intimacy [i.e. "into me you see"], May 1993

Women read 90% of all the relationship books that are published and initiate about 70% of divorces and breakups. On the other side men suffer much more when they are left financially and emotionally and if they are in a relationship benefit from being in the relationship more, but frequently care less about what makes love work. So I figured it helps both sexes the most if men get more educated about relationships because it takes two people to cocreate a relationship but only one person to end it. Video dialogue featuring Martin Ucik, German general manager, entrepreneur, integral relationship evolutionary, author, Allan Combs and Martin Ucik talk about Martin's book, "Integral Relationships, a Manual for Men", YouTube film, minute 1:30, 4:47 minutes duration, posted 15. August 2011

Men throughout the world have unconscious wishes to return to infancy, longings to suckle at the breast, to return to the womb, the powerful temptation to surrender one’s masculine autonomy to the omnipotent mother of childhood fantasy. David Gilmore, Ph.D., US American professor of anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author, Misogyny. The Male Malady, University of Pennsylvania Press, 11. May 2001

Any development, at any stage, that strives toward patriarchal consciousness, toward the sun, looks on the moon spirit as the spirit of regression, as the terrible mother, as a witch. Erich Neumann (1905-1960) German psychologist, psychoanalyst, writer, Evolution of Consciousness. The Origins of the Way We Think, Simon & Schuster, 1. November 1992

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unhealed masculine and unhealed feminine

While dominance and control is at the far end of the unhealed masculine;
so is seduction and manipulation at the far end of the unhealed feminine.
Mary Manin Morrissey (*1949) US American inspirational speaker, fraudulous prophet, former New Thought minister from Oregon, source unknown

Men need to learn to be "women". They need to learn to surrender. Take eternity as your lover and allow eternity to do with you as it will. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, Women / Men and Self Realization, 54:16 minutes duration, The Lakshmi Series, FrederickLenzFoundation.org, 1 of 30 recorded talks, 1982-1983

Men are afraid to be women. Men make the wars and have interest in hate and killing. They have unstable energy. Men must accept their female side and then there will be balance. Frederick Philip Lenz, III, Ph.D. [Rama] (1950-1998) US American Buddhist spiritual teacher, source unknown

Humor

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) US American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, aphorism

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Quotes by Richard Rohr – Male spirituality and initiation

The males of most cultures will ordinarily define themselves by external performance, self created ordeals, and ego affirming tasks – unless they are offered a very real inner world and larger outer world that is even more alive and challenging. […] Older cultures seemed to assume that unless the male is led on deliberate journeys of powerlessness, he will normally seek and abuse power. The only external power that you can trust is in men who have also found their real inner power. Power it seems is the key fascination in the male soul and in every male archetype.
It does not go away by churchy preaching or cultural poverty. It just takes disguised and different forms and finally comes back to defeat most worthwhile projects or worse, keeps them from ever getting started. If the male does not experience his power and his possibilities, if he does not let others educate it and tame it, power needs/ego needs tend to control his whole agenda. It does not go away. Primal cultures understood this to an amazing degree, and they took steps to insure that it would not keep happening and subverting their community. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Made not Born: Men and Power, presented by Malespirituality.org, July 2003

Two brothers from Haiti

Masculine spirituality is not just for men, although it is men who are most likely going to have to rediscover and exemplify it. Strangely, it is an approach that many women are more in touch with today than men. Women have been encouraged and even forced to work on their inner life more than men in our culture. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

In the Chinese view of the universe, it is the yang, or active masculine principle, that is always the necessary complement to yin, the passive feminine principle. For the Judaeo-Christian tradition it is half of the image of God: "God created humanity as a self-image, male and female God created them" (Genesis 1, 27). Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

Conversion to what? Conversion to what we might call the no-me.
By that I mean conversion to the other, the alien, the would-be enemy that we must learn to love.
In other words, men must be converted to the feminine, women to the masculine.
Maybe that is why God made sexual attraction so compelling.
If we are converted to this non-self, everything changes. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

A masculine spirituality would emphasize action over theory, service to the human community over religious discussions, speaking the truth over social graces, and doing justice over looking nice. Without a complementary masculine, spirituality becomes overly feminine (which is really a false feminine!) and characterized by too much inwardness, preoccupation with relationships, a morass of unclarified feeling, and endless self-protectiveness. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

Such a man has life for others and knows it. He does not need to push, intimidate, or play the power games common to other men because he possesses his power with surety and calm self-confidence. He is not opinionated or arrogant, but he knows. He is not needy or bothered by status symbols because he is […] his identity is settled and secure – and within. He possesses his soul and does not give it lightly to corporations, armies, nation-states, or the acceptable collective thinking. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

Saints are people who are whole.
They trust their masculine soul because they have met the Father. He (sic!) taught them about anger, passion, power and clarity. He told them to go all the way through and pay the price for it. He shared with them his own creative seed, his own decisive Word, his own illuminating Spirit. They are comfortable knowing and they are comfortable not knowing.
They can care and not care without guilt. They can act without success because they have named their fear of failure. They do not need to affirm or deny, judge or ignore. But they are free to do all of them with impunity. The saints are invincible. They are men! Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

The feminine is more comfortable with the interior, the soul;
the masculine is more comfortable with the exterior world. Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Masculine Spirituality, PDF, published in Praying – Spirituality for Everyday Living, September-October 1988

The Five Promises (essential tough truths) of male initiation are:
1. Life is hard.
2. You are not important.
3. Your life is not about you.
4. You are not in control.
5. You are going to die.

Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Adam's Return. The Five Promises of Male Initiation, headings of each of five chapters, Crossroad Publishing Company, 2. November 2004

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Quotes by Warren Farrell – Men's movement and gender transition

From the dominance society to the partnership paradigm

DOMINANCE / SUBJUGATION Survival based dependency Stage 1 – Role mates ✰	PARTNERSHIP Balanced survival and self-fulfillment by mutual caring Stage 2 – Soul mates ✰ ✰
Men and women were Role mates.	Men and women will be Soul mates.
Man as killer-destroyer-protector² Couples from any class	Man as communicative nurturer-connector Couples of the middle/upper class
Segregated Loving Division of labor – Division of interest Women raised the children. Men raised the money. Women were valued for their fertility, men for their disposability.	Transition to United Loving Common interest and common values – Dignity for all Women and men share raising a family and earning a living.

This is really the first time in human history that the qualities it takes to survive
as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
Audio interview with Warren Farrell, Ph.D., Farrell.com, US American spokesman of men's liberation

P A S T 50,000 years	F U T U R E Since the 50ties
In the past choosing the killer male led to the 'survival of the fittest'.³	In the future – with nuclear technology – choosing the killer (destroyer) male leads to the potential destruction of everyone. So what was functional has become dysfunctional. [The future is open for the idea of mutual caring.]
In the past men had to be cut off from their feelings or they would not have been led to die to protect the family and community. So women had to fall in love with people who were inherently incapable of loving.	In the future women can afford to fall in love less and less with the killer-protector and more and more with the nurturer-connector.
In the past survival, marriage, and the family all required the killer male.	In the future survival, marriage, and the family will all require the communicative male.

Source: ► Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power*, part 6 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 8:38, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008
See also: ► Three stages of intimate relationships between men and women

Women have already begun to move from stage 1 to stage 2 en masse, beginning with the women's liberation movements of the 50's and 60's,
while men have largely remained "stuck" in much the same condition women were in before the rise of feminism. And this cultural "stuckness" not only reinforces many of the same unhealthy dynamics feminism was originally conceived to address, but also makes it much more difficult for women to fully grow from stage 1 to stage 2 in a complete and authentic way. Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, presented by integralinstitute.org, 1997

Personal avowals

Ultimately I am really not in favor of either a men's movement or a women's movement. I am in favor of a gender transition movement. However, I oppose skipping past a men's movement until men have equally articulated our perspective. I think then and only then we'll be able for a synthesis. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 2 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 4:31, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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When Farrell he retracted from false feminist conclusions around 1992 Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan alienated him, unwilling to listen to his arguments.

I had to redefine what a friend was, because among my friends were Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, and people who were significant players in the feminist movement. I didn't realize that if a person breaks from you because you differ in their ideology, is that a friend? Or is a friend somebody who respects your integrity and listens to you very well and requires you to listen to him or her and to represent them well as well, or is that what a friend is. The most important characteristic for me of a friend is integrity and also the ability to put down other priorities and go out of their way to involve with me at points in time when I need them and expect the same with me. Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Warren Farrell interviewed by Libertarian Matt Kibbe: from N.O.W. to Now, presented by crtv, host Matt Kibbe, US American president and chief community organizer of Free the People, YouTube film, minute 6:39, 37:27 minutes duration, aired and posted 8. February 2018

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Definition of power

To me power is about control over one's life. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, Is Feminism Favoritism? Q&A, presented by the major daily newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), Maureen Downey, 21. October 2007, reissued 13. June 2013

Appeals

We as men have not spoken up. We can't expect the world to hear what men have not said. We haven't spoken up in part because training to be a man is training to cut ourselves off from feelings so we don't get in touch with what we want to speak about. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 19 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 1:30, 3:57 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Sexuality and dating patterns:

Resocialising women to initiate sexually and risk rejection as well and to take responsibility for saying what they do want, not only what they don't want.
Resocialising men to accept a woman's NO for a no.

We need to be resocialising both sexes simultaneously, not just blaming men. We need to encourage both sexes to take different types of sexual responsibilities than we've trained in the past. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 17 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 1:36, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

Future outlook

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Future male gender role

In the future survival, marriage, and the family will all require the communicative male. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 6 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 8:38, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

Recommendations

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Evolution – gender transition

I discovered that, when women earn about $100,000 per year, they say, "I have enough money; I need time — for my family, friends, myself, to travel, and for exercise." Men need to learn this from women. Psychologically, men are about where women were in the 1950s. We need to help our sons question the traditional male definition of power — feeling obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner. That's powerlessness. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, Is Feminism Favoritism? Q&A, presented by the daily US American newspaper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), Maureen Downey, 21. October 2007, reissued 13. June 2013

Insights

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Mutuality – interdependence

When one sex loses, both sexes lose. When just one sex appears to win, both sexes lose. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 13 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 8:10, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Errors of feminism

The fundamental feminist false assumption: Female powerlessness meant male power. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Why Men Are the Way They Are, Berkley, pocket book, 1. September 1988, reissued 29. January 2002

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Inability to take criticism well

There is such a resistance to the L word – LISTENING. The biggest issues in the world are not gender issues. The biggest issue in the world is our inability to hear each other. […] There is a natural biological propensity to not being able to hear criticism, especially from a loved one, especially when it is given badly. Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Warren Farrell (Myth of Male Power) and Cassie Jaye (Red Pill) conduct audience experiences, YouTube film, minute 31:43, 1:28:54 duration, posted 16. May 2017

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History of gender relationships

This is really the first time in human history that the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 6 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 8:38, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Stages of male role models

Traditional women went from father to husband to God, the Father.
And men competed to be their fathers in the form of either priests or ministers or rabbis.
New Age women went from father to husband to guru.
And men competed to be their guru. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 14 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 7:20, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

Oil paintingOriental man with pipe, 1874
Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901) Greek painter

Both sexes made themselves slaves to the other sex in different ways.
For thousands of years most marriages were in stage 1. They were survival focused marriages.
After World War II marriages increasingly flirted with stage 2, a self-fulfillment focus. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 5 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 4:38, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

The biology of women in a survival-focused world was the child raising and that left the social role of men to raising the money to support the biological role of women. And it's not been until industrialized societies had enough income to help society progress from what I call a
- Stage 1, which is survival-focused to
- Stage 2, which is focused on the balance between survival and self-fulfillment,

that we could produce people who were able to focus on what rights and opportunities they had.
Interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, An Interview with Warren Farrell, presented by MenWeb.org, J. Steven Svoboda, 1997, reissued 12. June 2008
Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, originally presented by an online men's magazine, reissued by the IntegralInstitute.org, 1997

At first, the rigid gender roles of men and women were born from necessity, and reflected a conscious choice on behalf of both genders to separate the world into public and private spheres, with men tending to the public, and women tending to the private. These roles became increasingly reinforced throughout history, as biological necessity determined that women would be valued for their fertility, and men for their disposability. Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, originally presented by an online men's magazine, reissued by IntegralInstitute.org, 1997

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Victimhood

Historically, women as victim attracts men. Men as victim repulses women.
Historically, women dropped hankerchiefs (as if they played victims) as a way of discovering where the saviors are located. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 14 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 2:28, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

The weakness of men is the facade of strength: the strength of women is the facade of weakness. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, Simon & Schuster, 1st edition 1993, Berkely, 2nd edition 2000, January 2001

Women's strength is their facade of weakness,
men's weakness is their facade of strength. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 16 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 2:37, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008
Men's weakness is their façade of strength; women's strength can be their façade of weakness – or their courage to acknowledge their weakness. In this way also our sons are behind our daughters. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, 15 Intriguing Thoughts About Men, Women and Relationships, PDF, presented at Midland Park High School's 50th Reunion. 10. September 2011

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Nature's survival trick

Both sexes are biologically programmed to fall in love with the members of the opposite sex who are the least capable of loving.

➤ Men fall in love with women who are young and therefore less mature in their relationship skills, and beautiful, which usually means men compete to take care of them;

➤ women fall in love with men who are successful without realizing that many of the qualities it takes to be successful at work are inversely related to what it takes to be successful in love.

Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, 15 Intriguing Thoughts About Men, Women and Relationships, PDF, presented at Midland Park High School's 50th Reunion. 10. September 2011

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Falling in love and sustaining love

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, 15 Intriguing Thoughts About Men, Women and Relationships, PDF, presented at Midland Park High School's 50th Reunion. 10. September 2011

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Critisizing is a call for more intimacy.

The best intent of a criticizer is to make the relationship better – to increase intimacy. But almost everyone who hears any request for any change in attitude or behavior wants to "kill" the criticizer. Which doesn't increase intimacy. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, 15 Intriguing Thoughts About Men, Women and Relationships, PDF, presented at Midland Park High School's 50th Reunion, 10. September 2011

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Practicing black love – receiving personal criticism

The Achilles' Heel of humans is our inability to handle personal criticism – especially when given by a loved one – especially when given badly. (Of course, all criticism feels like it is given badly.) The discipline of love starts with the discipline of knowing how to emotionally associate being criticized with being loved; that's the best way to make our partner feel safe sharing her or his feelings. The discipline continues with the art and discipline of appreciating each other. Talk by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, 15 Intriguing Thoughts About Men, Women and Relationships, PDF, presented at Midland Park High School's 50th Reunion, 10. September 2011

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Lost innocence

When a man falls in love with an innocent woman, he "falls in love" because her "innocence" allows him to get a reunion within himself with the part in himself that got lost in the process of protecting her innocence. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 12 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 3:18, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Violence

Violence is almost always the outgrowth of powerlessness not power. People become criminals when they experience powerlessness not power. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 14 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 1:09, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Boy abuse:

Tax payers and spectators pacify themselves by calling it education.
Violence against men is seen as entertainment. Violence against women is seen as a crime.

Junior High School American football is cash payer subsidized boy abuse. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 0:05, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

Girls are encouraged to cheer for violence against men. Our team winning really meant our society protected. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 0:05, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

The disconnection from feelings that it required to be willing to be shot on the battle field or to be hurt on the football field does not a loving man make.
The athletes for whom women cheer are also the athletes who are involved in one third of the campus' sexual assaults. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 0:05, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Non-violence:

Male gods were primary when protection was the primary need.
They were not primary when protection was not the primary need.

Men quickly become non-violent when three conditions are met.
When there was plenty of food and water and no threat of attack men did have to be (off) killing so they could be part of a partnership at home. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 0:05, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Conflict:

87% of the US men and three quarters of the US women voted for entering Gulf War II.

War is caused by our primal fear of not surviving. That is a two sex fear. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 12 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 2:21, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Dirty jokes

We're often told that dirty jokes are the male method of intimidating women.
In fact, men tell dirty jokes to peers to bond to peers not to intimidate peers.
When a boss tells a dirty joke it's often his unconscious way of getting to say not to take him so seriously and therefore not being intimidated. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 17 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 2:24, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Hazing

Men always tested men [by hazing them] before they trusted men.
We must realize that male hazing was not an outcome of men being powerful but it is an outcome of men making themselves part of the machine, part of the team (like in the military). And not taking things personally [and disconnecting them from their feelings] was a part of that.
Historically, the defenses that men created to be able to handle hazing was their armor, but it was armor to other people not to wear armor. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 17 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 4:18, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Male disposability – selfesteem issue

The wound that unifies all men is really the wound of our disposability. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 17 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 9:48, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Communicating – understanding

The most important thing to understand about men is their desire to be understood. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. Destroying Myths, Creating Love, Tarcher, 4. October 1999

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Vulnerability

[Women] were falling in love with men who appeared to be invulnerable.
The ability to kill always requires the vulnerability of being exposed to being killed.
The irony of male allegeability is that it is created by vulnerability that is masked as invulnerability. And to this day this is the male tragedy. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, minute 0:05, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Men's the two F’s: fathers and feelings

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more. When he is able to connect with the father that was missing, he’s able to both care more and recognize the importance of being a good father. When you care about being a good father, you start caring more about your own children and the type of father you are. Interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, ''An Interview with Warren Farrell, presented by MenWeb.org, J. Steven Svoboda, 1997, reissued 12. June 2008

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"Civilising" women

By taking care of the killing for women it can be said that men civilized women. Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, 10:01 minutes duration, posted 10. July 2008

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Serving heroes

If you were willing to sacrifice yourself, you would be called a hero. The Greek word for hero was "serow," from which we get our words servant, slave, and protector. All come etymologically out of the word hero. This tells in one word the entire story of masculinity. Interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, ''An Interview with Warren Farrell, presented by MenWeb.org, J. Steven Svoboda, 1997, reissued 12. June 2008

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Oppression – Survival

Men don’t oppress women any more than women oppress men. The whole concept of men and women oppressing each other is ridiculous. That's a fabrication of the feminist movement. What is true is that both sexes have roles that can legitimately be considered oppressive, but those roles are not roles designed by men or women, they were designed by biological necessity and the necessity of survival. Survival was the oppressor. And in order to survive, you didn’t teach people to focus on rights, you taught them to focus on responsibilities, you taught them to focus on obligations. Interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, ''An Interview with Warren Farrell, presented by MenWeb.org, J. Steven Svoboda, 1997, reissued 12. June 2008

Strict ideology is for women what macho is for men. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Why Men Are the Way They Are, Berkley, pocket book, 1. September 1988

Father and son

So frequently today I see our daughters, who are interested [...] humanistic issues, go off to school and take Women's Studies courses, and then they come out angry at men – and these are oftentimes the brightest, the most intelligent, and the most potentially loving women, coming out of their university classes with an extension of marxist feminism that says that the males are oppressing women. And that's just a misunderstanding of the gender development over the millennia. Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author of the international bestsellers Why Men Are the Way They Are and The Myth of Male Power, the only man in the US elected three times to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women, New York City, served on the boards of three national men's organizations, source unknown

However, the moral, ethical, and technological advancements commonly associated with modernity have begun to change the rules entirely, accelerated by both men's and women's destinies being liberated from their biology – especially as muscle-power began to be increasingly replaced by mechanical and microchip-driven power, and as birth control offered women much more control over pregnancy. These evolutionary developments have enabled a considerable amount of women to migrate from the private sphere into the public, for the first time in history.
How can men make a similar transition from the "brute power" of the public sphere to the "invisible powers" of compassion, connection, introspection, and sexuality traditionally associated with the private sphere? Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, originally presented by an online men's magazine, reissued by IntegralInstitute.org, 1997

Society is something like a boat, with gender roles rigidly assigned so that men row predominantly on one side of the boat, and women row on the other, more or less assuring that the boat keeps moving forward.
However, since the rise of the enormously beneficial women's liberation movement, women have begun to learn how to row on both sides of the boat — exploring many of the roles traditionally associated with men — who, unfortunately, have not experienced a similar sort of "men's liberation" movement, and are thus still rowing on the same side they always have. What happens, of course, is that rather than continuing to move the boat forward, the boat begins to move in a circle, seriously compromising any sort of meaningful progress for humanity as a whole. We are very much in this boat together, and must therefore learn how to consciously transform both genders, culturally and individually. Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, originally presented by an online men's magazine, reissued by IntegralInstitute.org, 1997

So what can we do to help men learn how to row on the other side of the boat? Unfortunately, there exist virtually no role models for men to guide this sort of transition, no rites of passage or cultural road signs to help remind men that there are indeed higher and deeper levels of masculine maturity yet to be explored and developed. Dialogue between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber, Does Feminism Discriminate Against Men? Beyond Feminism and Masculism. Redefining the Relationships Between Men and Women, part 2 of 2, originally presented by an online men's magazine, reissued by IntegralInstitute.org, 1997

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1920-2010:

The life expectancy of males rose from 1 year less to 5 years less than.

Life expectancy has gone from one year less for males than females in 1920, to five years less for males today, yet federal offices of boys and men’s health are non-existent.
Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, "The Evolution of Love: from Role Mate to Soul Mate", Dr. Warren Farrell at the Integral Spiritual Experience, sponsored by Integral Spiritual Experience, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, 31. December 2010, Transcript, part I, YouTube film, 51:43 minutes duration, posted by drwarrenfarrell 6. January 2012

Waterfall

Prior to age nine, boys and girls commit suicide at equal rates.
From ages 10 to 14, boys' rate is twice as high.
From 15 to 19, four times as high
and from 20 to 24, more than five times as high.
Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, "The Evolution of Love: from Role Mate to Soul Mate", Dr. Warren Farrell at the Integral Spiritual Experience, sponsored by Integral Spiritual Experience, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, 31. December 2010, Transcript, part I, YouTube film, 51:43 minutes duration, posted by drwarrenfarrell 6. January 2012

[M]arried men "with child" earn more, so we say they have the power. They earn more because, once children arrive, they feel the obligation to earn more. Some evidence? Women who have never been married and never had children earn 117% of what men earn who have never been married and never had children. Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Dr. Warren Farrell at the Integral Spiritual Experience, featuring the topic "The Evolution of Love: from Role Mate to Soul Mate", sponsored by Integral Spiritual Experience, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, 31. December 2010, Transcript, part I, YouTube film, 51:43 minutes duration, posted by drwarrenfarrell 6. January 2012

The feminist movement never understood or gave credit to the sacrifices in work. They always made it seem like work was privilege, work was power. No, work was responsibility that gave up power. Pay is about a paradox. Pay is about the power that you forfeit (on somebody else's behest) to get the power of pay. Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Warren Farrell interviewed by Libertarian Matt Kibbe: from N.O.W. to Now, presented by crtv, host Matt Kibbe, US American president and chief community organizer of Free the People, YouTube film, minute 21:15, 37:27 minutes duration, aired and posted 8. February 2018

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Englische Texte – English section on men's issues and men's literature

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Men's health within the domination system

In a society in which men are expected to be strong, independent, aggressive, and impervious to emotional
stress, it is inevitable that men’s health will suffer.

Boys are nine times more likely than girls to suffer from hyperactivity.
Young men are five times more likely to commit suicide than young women.
Men have far higher rates of substance abuse and antisocial personality disorder than women.

Source: ► William S. Pollack, Ph.D., US American assistant clinical professor of psychology, department of psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School, director of the Centers for Men and Young Men, director of Continuing Education, McLean Hospital,
Ronald F. Levant, New Psychotherapy for Men, John Wiley & Sons, 1st edition 15. January 1998

Reference: ► Book Richard Saul, M.D., US American pediatric neurologist, author, ADHD Does Not Exist. The Truth About
Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder, HarperWave, 1st edition 13. March 2014, reprint edition 3. March 2015
HIGHLY overdiagnosed, Saul calls ADHD "neurochemical distractability/impulsivity".

See also: ► Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
► Health and ► Men and ► Statistics

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Early childhood experiences to the development of the brain:

ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder: 1. (General) poor impulse control, 2. Physical hyperactivity 3. Poor attention skills

The conditions in which children develop have been so corrupted and troubled [in post-industrial capitalism] over the last several decades that the template for normal childhood development is no longer present.
Video interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood, presented by US American Democracy Now!, US American non-profit TV station, host Amy Goodman (*1957) US American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, author, minute 14:22, 59:05 minutes duration, aired (Feb 2010-Jun 2011) 25. December 2012

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Entrainment of unconscious men via the 'Man Box'

The Man Box is mentality drummed into virtually all boys and men while being socialized into a male dominated culture.
Locked into unconscious brain circuits it led many men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other.

Breaking free from the commands of the Man Box
Creating a gentle world for both men and women

Dos	Don'ts
♦ Be a protector.	◊ Don't cry openly or openly express emotions – with the exception of anger.
♦ Show outer strength.	◊ Do not show weakness or fear.
♦ Show outer courage.	◊ Do not ever ask for help.
♦ Show aggression (anger).	◊ Do not be like a woman (sissy).
♦ Act tough.	◊ Do not be like a gay man.
♦ Be athletic.
♦ Make decisions on your own.
♦ Exercise control over ...
♦ Demonstrate dominance – especially over women.
♦ View women as property.
♦ Treat women as objects.
♦ Be heterosexual.

Source: ► Video interview with Tony Porter, US American educator and activist to end violence against women, A call to men,
presented by TED Talks, 11:14 minutes duration, filmed and posted December 2010, YouTube film, posted 10. December 2010

See also: ► Men and ► Unconscious

US American educator and activist to end violence against women Tony Porter shares how he was socialized into the Man Box, how he had suffered in it, how he had pressed it onto to his 5-year-old son, how he had succumbed to the man box call pretending to sexually abuse a 16 year old mentally ill girl to be accepted as a "real" man in the gang, how ashamed he was about not being able to speak the truth and to act honorably, to act as a gentle man. After he grasped the tragedy of a world in violence and abuse – he is promoting a gentle world for both men and women.

Don't "act like a man." Break free of the "man box." Tony Porter's call to all men

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Links zum Thema Männer und Männerliteratur / Men and men's literature

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Männerliteratur

Dr. Robert Moore (1942-2016) US-amerikanischer Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Professor für Psychologie, Berater, Autor, Douglas Gilette, Mitautor, König, Krieger, Magier, Liebhaber. Die Stärken des Mannes, Kösel Verlag, München, 1992
Dr. Robert Moore (1942-2016) US-amerikanischer Jungscher Psychoanalytiker, Professor für Psychologie, Berater, Autor, Douglas Gilette, Mitautor, Der Magier im Mann. Wege zum inneren Schamanen, Walter-Verlag, Solothurn, Düsseldorf, 1995
Jed Diamond, Ph.D., US-amerikanischer Psychotherapeut, Der Feuerzeichen-Mann. Wenn Männer in die Wechseljahre kommen, C.H.Beck, 1. Auflage 24. Februar 1999
Kent Nerburn, US-amerikanischer nicht-einheimischer Autor, Briefe an meinen Sohn. Über das Mannsein, die Liebe und das Leben, Beust Verlag, München, August 2001
⚡ David Deida (*1958) US-amerikanischer Sexualpsychologe, unabhängiger Forscher, Lehrer, Autor zu Mann/Frau-Beziehungsthemen, Der Weg des wahren Mannes. Ein Leitfaden für Meisterschaft in Beziehungen, Beruf und Sexualität, J. Kamphausen Verlag, 12. Auflage 14. September 2006
John Eldredge (*1960) US-amerikanischer Dozent im Bereich Christentum, Berater, Autor, Der ungezähmte Mann. Auf dem Weg zu einer neuen Männlichkeit, Brunnen-Verlag, Gießen, 11. Auflage August 2009
Prof. DDr. Gerald Hüther gerald-huether.de (*1951) deutscher Neurobiologe, Professor für neurobiologische Grundlagen- und Präventionsforschung, Universität Göttingen, wissenschaftlicher und populärwissenschaftlicher Referent, Autor, Männer – Das schwache Geschlecht und sein Gehirn, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Taschenbuch, 1. Auflage 16. September 2009

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Men's literature (engl.)

Robert A. Johnson (*1921) US American Jungian analyst, lecturer, author, He. Understanding Masculine Psychology, 1974, Harper Collins, March 1987
Herb Goldberg, Ph.D. (*1937) US American professor emeritus of psychology, California State University, Los Angeles, The Hazards of Being Male. Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege, Signet, original issue 1975, 10th anniversary edition 1. October 1987
Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) Austrian US American professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pioneer of women's history, teacher, author, The Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback edition 22. October 1987
Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Why Men Are the Way They Are, Berkley, 1. September 1988, reissued 29. January 2002
Robert Bly (*1926) US American activist, leader Mythopoetic Men's Movement, poet, author, Iron John. A Book About Men, Vintage Books, New York, October 1990, Rider, new edition 2. August 2001
Robert Lawlor (*1938) British mythographer, symbologist, translator, metaphysical author, Earth Honoring. The New Male Sexuality, Park Street Press, 1. March 1991
Guy Corneau (1951-2017) Canadian Jungian psychoanylyst, writer, Absent Fathers, Lost Sons. The Search for Masculine Identity, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 27. March 1991
Robert Moore, Ph.D. (1942-2016) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, professor of psychology, consultant, theorist, author, Douglas Gilette, US American author, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover. Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, HarperOne, reprint 16. August 1991
Robert Moore, Ph.D. (1942-2016) US American Jungian psychoanalyst, professor of psychology, consultant, theorist, author, Douglas Gilette, US American author, The Warrior Within. Accessing the Knight in the Male Psyche, William Morrow & Company, 1st edition August 1992
Patrick M. Arnold, US American Biblical scholar, author, Wildmen, Warriors, and Kings. Masculine Spirituality and the Bible, Crossroad, 1. September 1992
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Gods in Everyman. Archetypes That Shape Mens Lives, Harper Paperbacks, Perennial Library edition, 9. April 1993
John Eldredge (*1960) US American lecturer on Christianity, councelor, author, Letters to My Son. A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love, New World Library, 1994, 2nd edition 19. January 1999
Christopher Kilmartin, Ph.D., US American professor of psychology, gender researcher, Mary Washington College, Virginia, The Masculine Self, Mcmillan, 1994, Sloan Publishing, 4th edition 1. December 2009
James Hollis, Ph.D. (*1940) US American licensed Jungian psychoanalyst, professor of Jungian Studies, Saybrook University, author, Under Saturn's Shadow. The Wounding and Healing of Men, Inner City Books, paperback, 1. April 1994
Ronald F. Levant, US American professor of psychology, Harvard University, editor, Gary R. Brooks, editor, Men and Sex. New Psychological Perspectives, Wiley, 1st edition October 1997
William S. Pollack, Ronald F. Levant, New Psychotherapy for Men, John Wiley & Sons, 1st edition 15. January 1998
Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. Destroying Myths, Creating Love, Tarcher, 4. October 1999
Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, Berkley Trade, 9. January 2001
David Gilmore, Ph.D., US American professor of anthropology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, author, Misogyny. The Male Malady, University of Pennsylvania Press, 11. May 2001
John R. Baines, Ph.D. (*1946) British academic, retired professor of egyptology, University of Oxford, The Stellar Man, Hermetic Philosophy, John Baines Institute, 2nd edition 1. September 2002

Esoteric principles of the greatest sage of ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistos. Human beings are manipulated and controlled by a vast cerebral and cultural program. Freedom from this perpetual slavery consists in transcending oneself to finally cut the cord that connects us to this central computer.

Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, Adam's Return. The Five Promises of Male Initiation, The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2004
Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, author, The Heart of Whiteness. Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, City Lights Publishers, 1. September 2005
Jackson Katz (*1960) US American anti-domestic violence and gender violence prevention advocate, leading anti-sexist male activist, The Macho Paradox. Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, Sourcebooks, 16. April 2006
Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the Men's Movement, co-editor of Crossroads. the Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage, author, The Water of Life. Initiation and The Tempering of the Soul, GreenFire Press, 2nd edition 1. October 2006
Christopher Kilmartin, Ph.D., US American professor of psychology, gender researcher, Mary Washington College, Virginia, Julie Allison, Men's Violence Against Women. Theory, Research, and Activism, Psychology Press, 1st edition 30. March 2007
Herb Goldberg, Ph.D. (*1937) US American professor emeritus of psychology, California State University, Los Angeles, What Men Still Don't Know About Women, Relationships, and Love, Barricade Books, 1st edition 25. June 2007
Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, author, Getting Off. Pornography and the End of Masculinity, South End Press, 1st edition 1. September 2007
Dagonet Dewr, US American managing editor of New Witch Magazine, author, Sacred Paths for Modern Men. A Wake Up Call from Your 12 Archetypes, Llewellyn Publications, 8. December 2007
Shmuley Boteach (*1966) US American Orthodox rabbi, marriage counsellor, radio and television host, author, The Broken American Male. And How to Fix Him, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 22. January 2008
Kathleen Parker (*1951) US American syndicated columnist, Save the Males. Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care, Random House, 1st edition 10. June 2008
Matthew Fox (*1940) US American Episcopalian (formerly Roman Catholic) priest, author, The Hidden Spirituality of Men. Ten Metaphors for Awakening the Sacred Masculine, New World Library, 1. October 2008, 19. May 2009
Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, author, All My Bones Shake. Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice, Soft Skull Press, 1st edition 1. June 2009
Lucia René, US American mystic, ordained Buddhist monk, spiritual teacher, woman's and gender transition activist, author, Unplugging the Patriarchy. A Mystical Journey into the Heart of a New Age, Crown Chakra Publishing, 1st edition 21. December 2009
Louann Brizendine, M.D., Ph.D. louannbrizendine.com (*1952) US American neuropsychiatrist, professor of neurobiology, UC Berkeley, founder of the first US clinic to study and treat women's brain functions, lecturer, author, The Male Brain, Broadway, 1st edition 23. March 2010
Jed Diamond, Ph.D., US American psychotherapist, Mr. Mean. Saving Your Relationship from the Irritable Male Syndrome, Vox Novus, 15. April 2010
Martin Ucik, German general manager, entrepreneur, integral relationship evolutionary, Integral Relationships. A Manual for Men, singles2couples.org Publishing, 1st edition 30. July 2010
Tom Matlack, James Houghton, Larry Bean, US American cofounders and creators of the US American men's initiative The Good Men Project, Good Men Project. Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood, Good Men Foundation, 1. August 2010
Tim A. Goldich, US American author, Loving Men, Respecting Women. The Future of Gender Politics, Anima-Animus Publishing, 25. March 2011
Will Courtenay, Ph.D., US American men's health expert, author, Dying to Be Men. Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys, Routledge, 17. April 2011

National statistics show the suicide rate for males between the ages of 15 and 30 is 4 to 5 times higher than it is for females of the same age.

Hanna Rosin (*1970) US American journalist, contributing editor, author, The End of Men. And the Rise of Women, Riverhead Hardcover, 1st edition 11. September 2012
Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D., MFT, US American psychotherapist, marriage and family consultant, educator, founder and director of Men's Center of Los Angeles, The Sacred Path. The Way of the Spiritual Warrior. Journey of Mindful Manhood, Sacred Path Press, 1. October 2012
Rob A. Okun, US American publisher and editor of Voice Male Magazine, executive director of the Men’s Resource Center for Change, activist and chronicler the profeminist men’s movement, Voice Male. The Untold Story of the Pro-Feminist Men's Movement, Interlink Pub Group, 3. February 2014
Joseph Gelfer, Ph.D. gelfer.net (*1974) British religious scholar, researcher on masculinities, author, Numen, Old Men. Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy, Equinox Publishers, 2009, Routledge, series Gender, Theology and Spirituality, 1st edition 10. August 2014
Katherine K. Young, Canadian professor emerita of religious studies, McGill University, misandry activist, author, Paul Nathanson, Canadian religious studies academic, Replacing Misandry. A Revolutionary History of Men, McGill Queens University Press, 16. October 2015
Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. (*1933) US American professor emeritus of social psychology, Stanford University, author, Nikita Coulombe, Man, Interrupted. Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It, Conari Press, 1. April 2016

Young pornography consuming men are suffering from a new form of "arousal addiction" – countermeasures for getting them back on track.

Lewis Howes (*1983) entrepreneur, former professional Arena League football player, author, The Mask of Masculinity. How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives, Rodale Press, 31. October 2017
Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, John Gray (*1951) US American relationship counselor, lecturer, author, The Boy Crisis. Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, Benbella Books, 29. March 2018

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Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge Männerbewegung

Über das Mannwerden: Irrwege, Umwege, Auswege, Lars Gossing, Diplomarbeit Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen Deutschland, Soziologie – Gender Studies / Geschlechterforschung, 128 Seiten, 605,4 KB, Note 1,0, Januar 2001
Archetypen. Der Liebhaber, Formen und Entwicklungen eines verdrängten Archetyps, Ralf Hartmann, Aruna-Tantra.de, 3. Juni 2004
Was ist männlich Sechs ZEIT-Autoren beantworten die Frage?, ZEIT online, Josef Joffe, Herausgeber der ZEIT, 13. Juni 2006

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External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries Mansplaining, Men's movement

Article by Diederik F. Janssen, Male Initiation: Imagining Ritual Necessity, presented by The Intimate Connection JMMS, Volume 1, Number 3, November 2007
Article Hanna Rosin (*1970) US American journalist, contributing editor, author, The End of Men, presented by the US American magazine The Atlantic, July-August 2010
Article A Cultural History of Mansplaining, presented by the US American magazine The Atlantic, Lily Rothman, 1. November 2012
Interview with Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, author, Pornography undermines our humanity, presented by True Feminism, 27. August 2010
Article Eunuchs reveal clues to why women live longer than men, presented by British BBC News Health, James Gallagher, Britih science reporter, 25. September 2012

Compelling evidence that male sex hormone reduces male lifespan

Article by Stephen J. Johnson, Ph.D., MFT, US American psychotherapist, marriage and family consultant, educator, founder and director of Men's Center of Los Angeles, The Sacred Path. The Way of the Spiritual Warrior. Journey of Mindful Manhood, Sacred Path Press, 1. October 2012
Blog article Apologies to the Sacred Masculine (the apology this warrior-in-transition would like to receive), presented by blog vividlife.me, Jeff Brown, M.A., Canadian lawyer, psychologist, body-centered psychotherapist, author, 5. May 2013

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Audio- und Videolinks

Videopräsentation von Vera F. Birkenbihl (1946-2011) deutsche Psychologin, Managementtrainerin, Sachbuchautorin, Technische Universität, München, Bayern, 2001, veranstaltet und gefilmt von HM Veranstaltungsservice, Miesbach, YouTube Film, eingestellt 3. Februar 2013
- Teil 1 Männer – Frauen. Mehr als der sogenannte Unterschied?, 1:10:31 Dauer
- Teil 2 Männer – Frauen. Mehr als der sogenannte Unterschied?, 1:07:59 Dauer
Audiointerview mit Prof. DDr. Gerald Hüther gerald-huether.de (*1951) deutscher Neurobiologe, Professor für neurobiologische Grundlagen- und Präventionsforschung, Universität Göttingen, wissenschaftlicher und populärwissenschaftlicher Referent, Autor, präsentiert von dem deutschen Rundfunksender Nordwest Radio, Sendung "Gesprächszeit", ausgestrahlt 1. Februar 2010, YouTube Film, eingestellt 29. Dezember 2010
- Männer, das schwache Geschlecht, Teil 1 von 2, 14:29 Minuten Dauer
- Männer, das schwache Geschlecht, Teil 2 von 2, 10:27 Minuten Dauer
Videovortrag von Colin Stokes, US-amerikanischer Kommunikationsleiter der Non-profit Citizen Schools, Was Filme über Männlichkeit lehren [How movies teach manhood], präsentiert von TED Talks xBeaconStreet, 12:56 Minuten Dauer, gefilmt November 2012, eingestellt Januar 2013

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Audio and video links (engl.)

Man alive!, freely accessible US American web radio program for men's topics, Manaliveradio.com, hosts Michael Pisacane und Sally Bickford [kostenloses Webradio-Programm zu Männerthemen]

Audio interview with Father Richard Rohr, OFM, Masculine Spirituality. Why Males Need Initiation, Beloved Son Series, uploaded by CAC, 10 minutes duration (excerpt), 2004
Video interview with Matt Titus, US American relationship expert, 5 Secrets About Men, presented by the TV channel Better TV, program "The Better Show", host Audra Lowe, YouTube film, 2:54 minutes duration, posted 30. April 2008

1. Guys are insecure.
2. Guys want to stay away from the emotional bond.
3. Guys want to be monogamous – with the right (self-confident receiving) woman.
4. Guys move very slow when it comes to commitment.
5. Guys do highly (secretly) appreciate girl's advice.

Video interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (*1966) US American Orthodox rabbi, marriage counsellor, radio and television host, author of The Broken American Male. And How to Fix Him [1/2008], location "Museum of Jewish Heritage", New York, 18. June 2008, YouTube film, posted 2. Juli 2008
- The Broken American Male, part 1 of 8, 9:51 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 2 of 8, 9:56 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 3 of 8, 9:58 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 4 of 8, 9:58 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 5 of 8, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 6 of 8, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 7 of 8, 9:37 minutes duration
- The Broken American Male, part 8 of 8, 9:10 minutes duration
Video presentation by Louann Brizendine, M.D., Ph.D. louannbrizendine.com (*1952) US American neuropsychiatrist, professor of neurobiology, UC Berkeley, founder of the first US clinic to study and treat women's brain functions, lecturer, author, The Male Brain, sponsored by the Dominican University of California, recorded by the event video production company Fora.tv, 58:08 minutes duration, aired 31. March 2010
Video interview with Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, author, Fr. Richard Rohr – Male Spirituality, presented by The Catholic Corner, Diocese of Trenton, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, host Msgr. Walter Nolan, pastor, St. Paul's Church, Princeton, New Jersey, YouTube film, 29:01 minutes duration, posted 4. February 2011
Video presentation by Colin Stokes, US American director of communications of non-profit Citizen Schools, How movies teach manhood, presented by TED Talks xBeaconStreet, 12:56 minutes duration, filmed November 2012, posted January 2013
Documentary trailer The Mask You Live In, written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, cited in: The One Thing All Men Feel, But Never Admit, presented by the publication MIC, Elizabeth Plank, 5. July 2013

Exploration of American masculinity

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Video links (engl.) – Status of modern men

Extract of video presentation by Jackson Katz, Ph.D. (*1960) US American educator, advocate for the prevention of anti-domestic and gender violence, leading anti-sexist male activist, Tough Guise. Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity, presented by Mediaed.org, produced 2000, YouTube film, 7:03 minutes duration, 53:53 minutes duration, posted 4. October 2006

Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.

Video presentation by Jackson Katz, Ph.D. (*1960) US American educator, advocate for the prevention of anti-domestic and gender violence, leading anti-sexist male activist, Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering, presented by Mediaed.org, produced 2002, YouTube film, 4:55 minutes duration, posted 4. October 2006
Video interview on the concept of manhood with Harvey Mansfield, Ph.D. (*1932) US American professor of political theory, Harvard University, author, What makes a man?, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, 4:12 minutes duration, posted 19. February 2008
Audio interview with Jed Diamond, Ph.D., US American psychotherapist, author, Irritable Male Syndrome. A psychology, presented by the US American web radio station Shrink Rap Radio, psychology podcast #165, host David Van Nuys, Ph.D., US American professor emeritus of psychology Sonoma State University, California, 58:39 minutes duration, posted 25. July 2008
Video presentation by Matthew Fox (*1940) US American Episcopalian (formerly Roman Catholic) priest, author, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine, YouTube film, 4:50 minutes duration, 13. July 2009
Video interview with Tom Matlack US American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, founder of the men's initiative The Good Men Project, 2009, author, The Good Men Project, YouTube film, 2:41 minutes duration, posted 26. October 2009
Video interview with Reihan Salam (*1979) US American non-fiction writer, journalist, columnist, policy analyst writer, "Schwarz Fellow", New America Foundation, Proselytizing for Self-Respect. The Dislocated Male. Were the "Mad Men" Such Bad Men?, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, 32:36 minutes duration, posted 1. December 2009
Video interview with Tony Porter, US American educator, activist to end violence against women, A call to men, presented by TED Talks, 11:14 minutes duration, filmed and posted December 2010
Video interview with Alfonso de Rose, Italian US American physical trainer in the Italian Air Force, minister, spiritual teacher, A man revolution is needed!!! Masculinity and heart, Santa Monica, California, presented by the US American webTV, host Lilou Macé on "Juicy Living Tour", YouTube film, 18:57 minutes duration, posted 16. February 2011

Emergence of the New Millennium Man

Video presentation by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. (*1933) US American professor emeritus in social psychology, Stanford University, author, The demise of guys?, presented by TED Talks, 4:47 minutes duration, filmed March 2011, posted August 2011
Vimeo video presentation by Christopher Kilmartin, Ph.D., US American professor of psychology, gender researcher, Mary Washington College, Virginia, Guy Fi: The Fictions that Rule Men's Lives, 1:27:05 duration, posted August 2011
"Genetically men and women are 99.8% similar." Minute 14:04
"John Gray's book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus is the worst gender book ever written." Minute 14:13

Dr. Phil's TV show promotes stereotypes like 'Men can't talk to women like women expect them to do. Hence, men are unable to improve their standards.' Minute 1:16:16

"Empowering women does not come at men's expense. […] The anti-feminine message is the most toxic message that young boys get. The world of the future is the world where men and women are doing the same things." Minute 1:25:05

Video presentation by Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. (*1933) US American professor emeritus in social psychology, Stanford University, author, Why boys are failing?, presented by TEDxRawaRiverSalon, Katowice, Poland, recorded 18. May 2015, YouTube film, 24:25 minutes duration, posted 30. July 2015

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Video links (engl.) – Healing of men / Heilung der Männer

Video presentation by Robert Bly (*1926) US American activist, leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement, poet, author, A Gathering of Men, presented by Public Affairs Television, Mystic Fire video, producer and host Bill Moyers, 1990, YouTube film, 1:29:32 minutes duration, posted 2006, reposted 4. May 2012
Video interview with Hitaji Aziz, US American peacemaker, Healing Men, presented by Houston PBS, program Living Smart, #309, host Patricia Gras (*1960) US American television anchor, reporter, journalist, recorded ~June 2007, YouTube film, 26:49 minutes duration, posted 10. May 2010
Video interview with Robert Bly (*1926) US American activist, leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement, poet, author, Bill Moyers talks with Poet Robert Bly, presented by PBS' Bill Moyer's Journal, producer and host Bill Moyers, 27:22 minutes duration, posted 31. August 2007
Video trailer The Good Men Project, YouTube film, 2:07 minutes duration, presented and posted by The Good Men Project 15. September 2009

"The right person isn't solely someone who is happy with you, it is also someone who isn't afraid to be unhappy with you." Minute 1:38

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Warren Farrell

Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Myth of Male Power, presented by Simon & Schuster Audio, host Tom Howard, total duration 3 hours 17 minutes, posted 10. July 2008
- The Myth of Male Power, part 1 of 19, 10:06 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 2 of 19, 10:00 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 3 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 4 of 19, 10:00 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 5 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 6 of 19, 10:00 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 7 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 8 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 9 of 19, 10:00 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 10 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 11 of 19, 10:00 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 12 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 13 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 14 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 15 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 16 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 17 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 18 of 19, 10:01 minutes duration
- The Myth of Male Power, part 19 of 19, 3:57 minutes duration
Audio interview and dialog between Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author and ⚡ Ken Wilber (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, The Need for Men's Liberation, presented by Integral Life, 42 minutes duration, August 2010
Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, What is self-esteem? In honor of Nathaniel Branden, MP3, aired beginning October 2010
Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, International Men's Day November 19th 2010, transcript conducted by Greg Andresen, YouTube film, posted 29. October 2010
- International Men's Day, part 1 of 5, 11:27 minutes duration
- International Men's Day, part 2 of 5, 9:20 minutes duration
- International Men's Day, part 3 of 5, 5:30 minutes duration
- International Men's Day, part 4 of 5, 9:50 minutes duration
- International Men's Day, part 5 of 5, 9:26 minutes duration
Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, author, presented by Canadian TV show Bynon, host Arlene Bynon, October-November 1999, YouTube film, posted 13. December 2011
- Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, part 1 of 2, 10:30 minutes duration
- Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, part 2 of 2, 9:23 minutes duration
Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, "The Evolution of Love: from Role Mate to Soul Mate", Dr. Warren Farrell at the Integral Spiritual Experience, sponsored by Integral Spiritual Experience, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California, 31. December 2010, YouTube film, 51:43 minutes duration, posted by drwarrenfarrell 6. January 2012

Transcript, part I and Transcript, part II
See also: Four gender transition steps to the future of love.

Video interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Primal Desire Versus Rational Love, presented by the US American web radio station The Freedomain Radio, A Voice for Men, host and founder Stefan Molyneux (*1966) Irish-born Canadian blogger/vlogger, podcaster on anarcho-capitalism, politics, secular ethics, atheism, right-libertarianism, cryptocurrencies, self-published author, YouTube film, 58:47 minutes duration, posted 13. February 2013
Audio interview with Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, Only Liberated Men and Women Can Heal Our World, presented by US American webcast Beyond Awakening, host Terry Patten, US American integral evolutionary leader, coach, author, 1:33:46 duration, aired 17. February 2013
Video presentation by Warren Farrell Farrell.com (*1943) US American political scientist, author, spokesman of men's liberation, men's rights activist, former director of the National Organisation for Women, speaker, author, The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys, presented by TEDx Marin, San Rafael, California, YouTube film, 12:50 minutes duration, posted 19. October 2015

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Robert Jensen

Video interview with Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, pornography critic, author, sponsored by the leftist blog and news website Media Mouse, YouTube film, posted 9. October 2007

Referring to his book Getting Off. Pornography and the End of Masculinity, South End Press, 1st edition 1. September 2007

"Pornography tells lies about women, but it tells the truth about men." Andrea Dworkin

Interview with Robert Jensen, part 1 of 4, 7:39 minutes duration
Interview with Robert Jensen, part 2 of 4, 9:08 minutes duration
Interview with Robert Jensen, part 3 of 4, 5:35 minutes duration
Interview with Robert Jensen, part 4 of 4, 4:54 minutes duration

Video presentation Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, pornography critic, author, Beyond Multiculturalism, presented at the "Pedagogy of Privilege Conference. Taking Power and Privilege Seriously in Teaching Diversity", Denver, 2. June 2009, YouTube film, 1 hour 7:55 minutes duration, posted 14. January 2010
Video presentation Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, pornography critic, author, Feminism and Masculinity, presented by the "Minnesota Men's Action Network", 2. October 2009, YouTube film, 1:01:35 duration, posted 14. January 2010
Video presentation Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, pornography critic, author, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men, sponsored by the Lone Star College-Kingwood, Houston, Texas, United States, YouTube film, 1:15:42 duration, posted 7. March 2017
Video TV interview with Robert Jensen, Ph.D. (*1958) US American professor of journalism, University of Austin, Texas, radical feminist, pornography critic, author, The End Of Patriarchy. Radical Feminism for Men, presented by the US American online TV station Rising Up With Sonali, host Sonali Kolhatkar, YouTube film, 22:50 minutes duration, posted 27. March 2017

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Jackson Katz

Audios and videos on healing masculinity featuring Jackson Katz, Ph.D. (*1960) US American educator, advocate for the prevention of anti-domestic and gender violence, leading anti-sexist male activist, creator and co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), social theorist, filmmaker, author

Type	Offering	Heading	Sponsor ♦ Location ♦ P-Date	Minutes duration	Release date
YouTube video	Educational presentation	Tough Guise. Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity	Mediaed.org, recorded 2000	7:02 (53:53)	4. October 2006
Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.
YouTube video	Presentation	*Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying and Battering*	Mediaed.org, recorded 2002	4:55	4. October 2006
YouTube video	Presentation	*Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity*	ChallengingMedia	7:03	4. October 2006
YouTube video	TV interview	*Penn State Sexual Abuse Analysis*	David Pakman Show, host David Pakman (*1984) US American television and radio host, political commentator	12:22	23. November 2011
YouTube video	Presentation	*"Manhood" in Politics*	Exploded View MEF	2:39	16. August 2012
YouTube video	Presentation	*Gender Gap in Politics*	Exploded View MEF	3:42	16. August 2012
YouTube video	Presentation	*Dr Jackson Katz presentation at 'Be the Hero' premiere event*	Australian The Victorian Women's Trust, BE THE HERO conference, Storming Against Violence Week of Action Premier Event Melbourne Town Hall, 16. February 2012	31:46	29. March 2012
YouTube video	Four part interview series	*Sexual Violence is a Man's Issue, part 1 of 4 Sexism, Racism and Homophobia, part 2 of 4 The Language of Sexual Assault, part 3 of 4 A Leadership Role for Police in Ending Sexual Violence*, part 4 of 4	Office on Violence Against Women, US Department of Justice, ACASAFayetteville	7:36 8:15 6:39 6:43	20. December 2012
YouTube video	Presentation	*Violence and Silence*	TEDxFiDiWomen	19:07	11. February 2013
YouTube video	Conversation	*Reshaping Masculinity* Crying, pornography, Miley Cyrus, gender needs	stylelik.eu	6:58	29. November 2013

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Audio and video links (engl.) – Black HUMOR

Video presentation by George Carlin (1937-2008) controversial US American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, author, The Male Disease, excerpt from "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?", YouTube film, 6:31 minutes duration, posted 17. November 2009
"All the problems in the world, repeat, all the problems in the world, can be traced to what fathers do to their sons." Minute 1:22
Video presentation by George Carlin (1937-2008) controversial US American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, author, Testosterone, excerpt from "When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?", YouTube film, 3:23 minutes duration, posted 1. September 2009
Video presentation by George Carlin (1937-2008) controversial US American stand-up comedian, social critic, actor, author, Women, YouTube film, 4:28 minutes duration, posted 3. September 2009