#stereotypes

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#gender-stereotypes #men-and-women #funny

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#against #be true #because #begin #fought

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful. ↗

— John Cusack

#black #black and white #evil #fact #helpful

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#believe #century #challenge #challenging #doing

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them. ↗

— Forest Whitaker

#stereotypes #them #through #walk

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#criminal #destructive #ethnic #good #good way

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#different #everybody #first #first thing #friends

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll. ↗

— Joan Jett

#musician #musician

Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis. ↗

— John Green

#humor #masculinity #humor

When a man plans, a woman laughs. ↗

— David Wong

#humour #men #paraphrased #plans #women