Quotes About Stereotypes

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

I know in the business world, some women won't speak if there are men in meetings for fear of being seen as too assertive.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

Being a feminist means asking for equality. But people take it the other way at times. It is looked down upon is because it is seen as man-hating. But, feminism is a really crazy idea that suggests men and women are equal.

Men and women are not the same in the kitchen. Women tend to be uninhibited and instinctive. Men are inconsistent, egotistical show-offs.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.

You know what men are like, they never really grow up, do they? Do they ever catch us up mentally? I don't think so.

Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.

I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter.

A guy can try something and not be successful, and it's just about him. But when you're a person of color, when you're a woman, when you're a woman of color in particular, you mess it up, and other people get tarred by your decision-making. You never act alone.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.

Arch Enemy is a female-fronted metal band, but so is Delain. They don't sound alike at all. The only thing they both are are metal bands, but the style within metal is so massively different that it doesn't really say much whether there's a girl singing or not. So it's really not so important.

As a female in metal, I'm going to get ostracized one way or another. So, if I'm going to have people hating me because I'm a female in metal, I might as well get people loving me because I'm a female in metal, too.