His new book, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, says enough to offend both sexes. But he doesn't care. The author of best sellers Why Men Are the Way They Are and The Myth of Male Power sees himself as a fair person who tells uncomfortable truths and is willing to take the inevitable flak.
Women have it worse than men, and that's men's fault.
Surveys on who's doing the housework routinely omit labor often done by husbands - home repairs, shoveling snow, car upkeep. An Office of Research on Women's Health looks after women's special needs, but men still die seven years earlier, and there's no special funding for men's diseases. Some cartoons reprinted by Farrell in his book tell the tale. In one, two women are chatting at an aerobics class. The sensitivity angle particularly irks Farrell.