#gender

Oh shit did you just dis the feminine gender I'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blender You think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhyme But I got flow like Ghostbusters got slime Objectify women and it's fuckin' on You'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon. ↗

— John Green

#rap #gender

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#lgbt #gender

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#gender-stereotypes #gender

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#gender

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. ↗

— David Sedaris

#language #words #gender

Patriarchy has no gender. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#gender

If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill? ↗

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

#responsibility #sex #gender

Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way. ↗

— Mary Roach

#survival #gender

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