Editing Warren Farrell (section)

=== ''The Myth of Male Power'' ===
{{Main|The Myth of Male Power}}
In 1993, Farrell wrote ''The Myth of Male Power'', in which he argued that the widespread perception of men having inordinate social and economic power is false, and that men are systematically disadvantaged in many ways. The book became a foundational text of the [[Men's Rights Movement]], and made Farrell one of its leading figures.<ref name="Ribeiro 2021">{{Cite conference |last1=Ribeiro |first1=Manoel Horta |last2=Blackburn |last3=Bradlyn |first3=Barry |first2=Jeremy |last4=De Cristofaro |first4=Emiliano |last5=Stringhini |first5=Gianluca |last6=Long |first6=Summer |last7=Greenberg |first7=Stephanie |last8=Zannettou |first8=Savvas |display-authors=3 |title=The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web |book-title=Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media |date=2021 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=196–207  |isbn=978-1-57735-869-5 |url=https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/18053/17856 |doi=10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18053 |doi-access=free |issn=2334-0770 |publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence |location=Palo Alto, Calif.  |arxiv=2001.07600v5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Emily|last1=Carian|title="No Seat at the Party": Mobilizing White Masculinity in the Men's Rights Movement|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2021.2009075|journal=Sociological Focus|date=2 January 2022|issn=0038-0237|pages=27–47|volume=55|issue=1|doi=10.1080/00380237.2021.2009075|s2cid=246210901 }}</ref><ref name="Kyparissiadis">{{cite journal |last1=Kyparissiadis |first1=George |last2=Skoulas |first2=Emmanuel |year=2021 |title="Manosphere and Manconomy: Divergent Masculinities in the Digital Space." |journal=Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |volume=5 |pages=199–217}}</ref>

''The Myth of Male Power'' was ardently challenged by some academic feminists{{Who|date=September 2024}}, whose critique is that men earn more money, and that money is power. Farrell concurs that men earn more money, and that money is one form of power. However, Farrell also adds that "men often feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while they die sooner—and feeling ''obligated'' is not power."<ref name="Myth_9780425181447" /> This perspective was to be more fully developed in Farrell's ''Why Men Earn More''.<ref name="Earn_9780814472101" />

[[Susan Faludi]] argued that Farrell had effectively recanted his original position as part of a generalized backlash against feminism.<ref>[[Susan Faludi|Faludi, Susan]] (1991), "[https://books.google.com/books?id=Irp3sOCk5cUC&pg=PT334 Warren Farrell: the liberated man recants]", in {{cite book | editor-last = Faludi | editor-first = Susan | editor-link = Susan Faludi | title = Backlash: the undeclared war against American women | pages = [https://archive.org/details/backlashundeclar00falu/page/334 334–339] | publisher = Crown Publishers | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-517-57698-4 | title-link = Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women | year = 1991 }}</ref>