Quotes About Social norms

But the truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes– the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew– that as the historian Andrea Tone noted in her book The Age of Anxiety, what Roche's tranquilizers really seemed to offer was a quick fix for the problem of "being female.

If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?

Celia, you sound like Mrs Bennett.' 'I hope not,' said Celia briskly, 'she was an excessively silly woman.

He's kinda shy. Maybe I should ask him out." "I think it's more traditional for you to trick him into asking you out. That way he feels more manly.

I'm sorry, Shatara. I just did your job." With a single utterance, she apologized, reviewed the normality of making errors (and of apologizing when they are social ones), and implicitly recognized that Shatara (as everyone else) is a person who takes her responsibilities seriously.

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his fatherís wife, for he has violated his fatherís marriage bed.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

ëCursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

But his father and mother replied, “Canít you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his fatherís wife.