Summary of Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power

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

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

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

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669398394

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

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

#2

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

#3

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

#4

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

#5

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

#6

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

#7

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

#8

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

#9

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

#10

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

#11

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

#12

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

#13

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

#14

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

#15

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

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Before World War II, some parents began to redefine love.