Quotes About Stereotypes

I totally bought you as a girl, says Marisol. I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.

Empathy leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences. These capacities are ever more called on in our increasingly pluralistic society, allowing people to live together in mutual respect and creating the possibility of productive public discourse. These are basic arts of democracy.

When girls play together, they do so in small, intimate groups, with an emphasis on minimizing hostility and maximizing cooperation, while boys' games are in larger groups, with an emphasis on competition. One key difference can be seen in what happens when games boys or girls are playing get disrupted by someone getting hurt. If a boy who has gotten hurt gets upset, he is expected to get out of the way and stop crying so the game can go on.

Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.

Antisocial teenage girls don't get violent, they get pregnant.

Maybe it's stress or anger or adrenaline or disillusionment or a bullying nature or simple fear of getting killed themselves, but there is a problem if a cop cannot tell the difference between a menacing gangster and the far more common person they encounter whose life is a little frayed and messy.

When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country.

I don't think women are better than men, but I do think that men are worse than women.

The only place men want depth in a woman is in her decolletage.

It's really hard for men to tell other men 'I love you' without putting a 'man' at the end of it. Like, 'I love you… man.' You just can't look at another man and say, 'I love you.'

Once you label me you negate me.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

Old age is a woman's hell.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

I don't like guys my age because they are normally either married or divorced and grumpy, fat and balding.

Chinese people age overnight.

I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.