Quotes About Stereotypes

In Phoenix, they were called illegal aliens and pegged as criminals. They were alternately viewed as American, Mexican, or neither. Now, for a moment, they were simply teenagers at a robotics competition by the ocean.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal of clichés and materials for describing men seems smaller. Many feminists are right to claim that the male is on the whole less objectified than the female; the male is treated more frequently as the subject rather than the object.

So, why do you write these strong female characters? Because you're still asking me that question." [ Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]

we're a "lower order of people" in one breath we are damned for being "unassailable" and the next there is fear that we'll assimilate. ... If we are educated, the complaint is that we will cease being the "ideal servant".

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Tengo oído que las toledanas son muy femeniles y han muy buenas posaderas y muslos muy firmes y ejercitados de subir cuestas.

Es el perpetuo, empequeñecedor coro de quienes han decidido lo que soy antes de darme la oportunidad de ser otra cosa.

Señora, inspector. Lo de señorita es machista.

Tonterías, niña. Ninguno es gay cuando le acercas la mano al grifo. En su día yo curé a unos cuantos.

El lenguaje de la política -en contra de sus propias intenciones- suele ser impreciso y ambiguo, de ahí el riesgo de su transformación, por pereza mental o por motivos utilitarios, en etiquetas o fórmulas estereotipadas, en eslóganes publicitarios o simples estribillos que no dicen nada.

what I call the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Women want equality until they think that acting hysterical can give them an edge. Then suddenly, they're the victims of their hormones.

We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders

GIRLS MAY START OUT SMART BUT NOT ALL GIRLS STAY SO DAMNED SMART..

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?" "Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.

I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.

Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut!

Muž nese vinu a žena bolest. Takhle to bylo odjakživa.

Frau-Sein bedeutete nichts weiter als die Erlaubnis, sich jederzeit für unzuständig zu erklären. Egal, ob es um das Wechseln einer Glühbirne, das Töten eines Tiers oder die Entsorgung eines Querulanten ging. Die Weiber riefen "Kann ich nicht!", versteckten das Gesicht in den Händen und sahen später wieder hin, um mit Vorwürfen anzufangen, angesichts dessen, was der Mann getan hatte.

This leads us to wonder if letting little boys dress up in little girl clothing is OK. After all, if girls dress up as boys, what is the difference? And then, if girls dress in pants, why shouldn't boys dress in skirts and dresses?

Some people have a great fashion of calling things they do not like yellow. You exclude the yellow man. You fear the yellow peril. I edit a white paper turned out by yellow men, and many white men turn out yellow papers.

Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.