#ma

When it comes to sexuality, romantic love plays a large part in feminine sexual scripts. Research suggests that women make sense of sexual encounters in terms of the amount of intimacy experienced; love becomes a rationale for sex. If i am in love, women often reason, sex is okay. Men more easily accept sex for its own sake, with no emotional strings necessarily attached. In this way, sexual scripts for men have involved more of an instrumental (sex for its own sake) approach, whereas for women it tends to be more expressive (sex involving emotional attachments). There is evidence to suggest that women are moving in the direction of sex as an end in itself without the normative constraints of an emotional relationship. By and large, however, women are still more likely than men to engage in sex as an act of love. Many scholars suggest that romance is one of the key ways that sexism is maintained in society. ↗

— Susan Shaw

#romance #sexuality #love

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#actors #humanity #mankind #stage #theater

The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other". R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#gods-will #mankind #sovereignty #men

Yes, I'm a man and everyone knows men are great hairy beasts scarcely tamed by civilization -Jermyn, Duke of Northcliff to Amy, Princess Beaumontaigne ↗

— Christina Dodd

#man #rake #men

Results for "A man is like a cat; chase him and he'll run; sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet ↗

— Helen Rowland

#men #men

I guess he’s there, deep in my subconscious, shooing other men away, keeping me single and alone." -Bouquet Toss ↗

— Melissa Brown

#men

For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves...so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking. ↗

— Jim Fergus

#may-dodd #native-americans #men

Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.” His warm gaze slid over her pink-tinted face and slender upper body, then sought hers again. There was a note in his voice that gently robbed her of breath. “You could do with a bit of spoiling. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #historical

We are powerful beyond our imagination and most of our potential diminishes because of our inability to choose the right kind of thoughts. ↗

— US MOINUDDIN

#imagination