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Quotes About Stereotypes

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove.
~ Gene Simmons
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
~ H. L. Mencken
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.
~ Huda Sha'arawi
What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.
~ Naomi Wolf
Why do they believe that?" "Because we are hackers," Csongor said, "and they have seen movies.
~ Neal Stephenson
trying to get Dutch people to prepare for disasters was a little like trying to get English people to watch football on the telly or Americans to buy guns.
~ Neal Stephenson
Since most hackers are white males, their companies are disaster areas when it comes to diversity, and it follows that all of the diversity must be concentrated in the one or two employees who are not hackers.
~ Neal Stephenson
A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting.
~ Neal Stephenson
In the view of Hollywood, the techies of Silicon Valley were just a particularly naive form of talent.
~ Neal Stephenson
handing the briefcase over to a computer guy. Y.T. knows he's a computer guy because he has long hair in a ponytail and he's wearing jeans and he seems gentle.
~ Neal Stephenson
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before…
~ Ned Vizzini
We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there
~ Ned Vizzini
You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how it was before...
~ Ned Vizzini
After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
While there, I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
If a woman has been married three years or more, you come to learn that she's usually easier to sleep with than a single woman.
~ Neil Strauss
Evidently, women have eating disorders, men have sex addiction. I suppose both share the same obsession: women's bodies.
~ Neil Strauss
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we
~ Neil Strauss
dehumanizing the opposite sex
~ Neil Strauss
Did that woman, could that woman, somehow know that here before her very eyes on the roof of the Drayton sat a Negro? Absurd!
~ Nella Larsen
Well, you see, it's like this. When we were first married, she was as white as—as—well as white as a lily. But I declare she's gettin' darker and darker. I tell her if she don't look out, she'll wake up one of these days and find she's turned into a nigger.
~ Nella Larsen
Cops say that FBI means "fabulously boring individuals
~ Nelson DeMille