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Quotes About Stereotypes

Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance.
~ Marie Brennan
It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.
~ Unknown
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
~ Unknown
These bridges support revelations in opposition to repudiations and personal testimonies challenging thematic stereotypes. Although
~ Unknown
The sports page told me that the New Jersey Niggers had beaten the Boston Micks. Some player on the Houston Hebes had accused the San Antonio Spics of dropping their last game to get a higher draft pick. The league was expanding to Toronto, and since they had already honored African Americans, Irish Americans, Jewish Americans, and Hispanic Americans, they wanted to name a team to honor Native Americans. They
~ Unknown
They sent out notices to all the tribal leaders, and they told us we could have whatever we wanted: Prairie Niggers, if the New Jersey team did not object, Redskins, Savages, Warriors, Heathens, Braves, Bucks—and of course the cheerleaders would be the Squaws, unless we wanted to modernize the language and just call them the Cunts. But
~ Unknown
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
~ Marilyn French
What is a man, anyway? Everything I see around me in popular culture tells me a man is he who screws and kills. But everything I see around me in life tells me a man is he who makes money.
~ Marilyn French
It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.
~ Marilyn French
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
~ Rosemary Mahoney
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
~ Milton Berle
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
~ Kanye West
George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.
~ Kanye West
I sometimes feel like when you're talking to boys, they just hear certain keywords… But if you had a bubble above their head, they'd be thinking about game scores, masturbation and food.
~ Kate Hudson
If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.
~ John Green
Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food.
~ Felipe Esparza
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
~ Kanye West
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
~ David Oyelowo
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
~ Joan Cusack
Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
~ Voltaire
Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.
~ John Wayne
Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
~ Chris Rock
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
~ Jackie Gleason