Warren Farrell is an American writer.
Farrell holds a Ph.D. in Political Science. He taught at the School of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego, and at Georgetown University, Rutgers, Brooklyn College, and American University.
With the publication of The Myth of Male Power, Farrell became the first masculist. In the early 1970s he was a champion of feminism, serving on the board of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Within a few years he left NOW, frustrated with what he saw as their female exclusiveness and disregard for men's issues. His early books The Liberated Man and Why Men Are the Way They Are were more in the vein of "masculinism", the male feminist-like approach to men's issues.
His pioneering approach to sex issues has come to be the cornerstone of masculism. His ideology calls for gender equivalence and a reduction in traditional gender roles. He has made a critical examination of the power imbalance between the sexes, claiming that it heavily favors women: "The women's movement had done a wonderful job of freeing women from sex roles, but no one did the same for men".
Farrell was a candidate for governor in the 2003 California recall election. He came ninety-seventh out of 135 candidates.
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"Women are human beings, men are human doings"
"The most important thing to understand about men is their desire to be understood..."
(Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say)
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