#gender

A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#stereotypes

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#activist #competitive #gender-stereotypes #stereotypes

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#homosexuality #homosexuality

We have gone on too long blaming or pitying the mothers who devour their children, who sow the seeds of progressive dehumanization, because they have never grown to full humanity themselves. If the mother is at fault, why isn't it time to break the pattern by urging all these Sleeping Beauties to grow up and live their own lives? There never will be enough Prince Charmings or enough therapists to break that pattern now. It is society's job, and finally that of each woman alone. For it is not the strength of the mothers that is at fault but their weakness, their passive childlike dependency and immaturity that is mistaken for "femininity." Our society forces boys, insofar as it can, to grow up, to endure the pains of growth, to educate themselves to work, to move on. Why aren't girls forced to grow up - to achieve somehow the core of self that will end the unnecessary dilemma, the mistaken choice between femaleness and humanness that is implied in the feminine mystique? ↗

— Betty Friedan

#gender-stereotypes #beauty

Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women. ↗

— Nicole Hollander

#men-and-women #imagination

said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him backward into the balloon, which was still under repair. ...Aven rubbed her knuckles and looked at the others. "Sorry about that. I might have stopped myself from hitting him, but I didn't think of it quickly enough. ↗

— James A. Owen

#gender #attitude

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. ↗

— Dave Barry

#background #beings #believe #drivers #ethnic

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#blame #call #discourse #engenders #guilt

Like all men who look this good, Frank has no interest in women. ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#gender-stereotypes #homosexuality #hot #male-beauty #shame

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #am #boy #definitely #doing