I just appeared on one of Canada’s popular prime-time news shows, Michael Coren’s The Arena. Coren introduced the protests against me and the Canadian Association for Equality at the University of Toronto in the context of the abridgement of free speech resulting from the protestors creating a human blockade that prevented people from hearing my [...]

UPDATE: Here is my response interview:   Despite about 100 protestors blocking the entrance to my presentation on Boys to Men at the University of Toronto this past Friday, Nov. 16, I was ultimately able to speak. Why the physically and verbally violent protestors who tore down and defaced hundreds of posters? In part, because [...]

I am just reviewing some of the old TV shows I’ve done, and chosen one of my favorites: a show on CNN moderated by Sonja Friedman. The show is no longer on the air. It was called ‘Sonja Live.’ Sonja is a psychologist and she asks excellent questions. What started out programmed as a quasi-debate [...]

In retrospect, my To Tell the Truth videos are philosophically fascinating.  The game of To Tell the Truth is for a four-person panel to discover which of three people is the real Warren Farrell, or the real Liberated Man.  Check out the amazing outcome of these two appearances and give me your thoughts as to [...]

Is Male Power Really a Myth?  A First Glance….

“The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”

There are many ways in which a woman experiences a greater sense of powerlessness than her male counterpart: the fears of pregnancy, aging, rape, date rape, and being physically overpowered; less socialization to take a career that pays enough to support a husband and children; less exposure to team sports and its blend of competitiveness and cooperation that is so helpful to career preparation; greater parental pressure to marry and interrupt career for children without regard for her own wishes; not being part of an “old boys” network; having less freedom to walk into a bar without being bothered….

The Myth of Male Power is both my most controversial book and the one requiring the most thinking-per-paragraph. Its reward is the deepest paradigm shift in a man’s view of what success and power are really about. Seven years after publication, even with this book out of print for a few years, I begin many days reviewing one or more emails from a man for whom this book has catalyzed a spiritual journey. For most men, that’s the rediscovery of the person he had whittled away to fulfill an image of himself that had always rubbed like sandpaper on his psyche, but that he thought would give him the love and respect of those he loved and respected.

Many of these men are not men who browse the psychology sections of bookstores. Many are “bottom-line” men: attorneys, engineers, and executives who want a lot in a short space, want data to support it, and want the information on page 11 and 347 to be consistent. I wrote The Myth of Male Power this way because I feel it is a contradiction to say we want men to read about relationships, and then write books that are sensitive only to women’s style.