Quotes About Stereotypes

I think the labels 'Plus Size' and 'Curvy' should be banned. You don't say 'White model' or Skinny model.' Why should 'Plus Size' models have a label.

Who would have thought that the girl who was forced to go to the hospital because she's so skinny would one day be called too fat?

We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion.

It actually makes perfect sense why women in Hollywood get so skinny: because it's a way of controlling how people see you.

Of course the defenders are trying to be physical with me. They look at me, 7-3, skinny, they try to be physical.

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

Sadly, people assume that I am happy because I am so skinny.

So many comics, skinny and fat, make fat jokes.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find themselves, while girls who fitted the image became adjusted 'happy' housewives and have never found out who they are.

With increasing skill, the ads glorify her role as an American housewife-knowing that her very lack of identity in that role will make her fall for whatever they are selling.

What is problematic is that the young people are operating with a very limited definition of what it means to be Black, based largely on cultural stereotypes.

Zhou and Lee found that even Asian students who exhibited mediocre or below-average academic performance were given the benefit of the doubt by teachers and encouraged to improve, and sometimes placed in honors or AP courses without the academic profile usually required for such placement. By contrast, Mexican participants in their study were rarely placed in the honors or AP classes.

Though most mass shootings in the US have been committed by US-born White men, it is rare (if ever) that those shooters are identified by their religious affiliations.

Using the same logic, I reserve the word sexist for men. Though women can and do have gender-based prejudices, only men systematically benefit from sexism.)

A 13 anni, è risaputo, una femmina è una ragazza in fiore, una giovane donna nel pieno splendore della maturità, mentre un maschio è un lattante goffo e ridicolo che deve soltanto girare alla larga. L'unica dota apprezzabile in lui è quella di saper star al suo posto. Cioè fuori dai piedi.

We wanted proper outback: a place where men were men and sheep were nervous.

The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be.

I passed the time browsing in the windows of the many tourists shops that stand along it, reflecting on what a lot of things the Scots have given the world—kilts, bagpipes, tam-o'-shanters, tins of oatcakes, bright yellow sweaters with big diamond patterns, sacks of haggis—and how little anyone but a Scot would want them. Let

journal Science in 1980 contending that women are genetically inferior at mathematics.