Quotes About Stereotypes

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth—103,500—are sixteen or older.

Somewhere there had to be a happy medium between being treated as a terrifying murder machine and being infantilized.

The Cordans believed the women needed men to provide for them; Moon had no idea why. He knew that Selis in particular was perfectly capable of chasing down any number of grasseaters and beating them to death with a club, so he didn't see why she couldn't hunt for herself.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Rich girls are a pain in the arse in the sack:

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous, because they think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

Whenever fewer women than men study a subject, then this fact is immediately seen as a problem. However, when fewer men take up a subject than women, as is the situation in fields such as foreign languages, most of the liberal arts, and some of the social sciences, nobody seems to care.

The combination of modern anti-discrimination laws, on the one hand, and women's reluctance to pull up their sleeves, on the other, can lead to strange results. Thus, whereas 80 percent of all clerks in the United States are women, the one "clerical" job that involves substantial outdoor walking — mail delivery — is done almost entirely by men.[401

The usual reason given for women's shorter hours is the famous double burden. However, upon closer inspection, this well-worn argument falls apart.[408]

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Durante miles de años, los varones han visto a las mujeres no como éstas podían ser, sino exclusivamente como ellos querían que fueran.

Los heterosexuales occidentales tienen tendencia a encasillar a los varones homosexuales en el estereotipo de lo afeminado. Sin embargo, desde los puntos de vista histórico y etnográfico, la forma más frecuente de relación homosexual institucionalizada se da entre hombres instruidos no para ser peluqueros o decoradores, sino guerreros.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

Putting it bluntly, having women pretend to be men may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem.

For a start it doesn't much matter what line you take as a woman, if you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is not what you say that prompts it, it's simply the fact that you're saying it. And that matches the detail of the threats themselves

Es habitual pensar que las mujeres que ocupan cargos de poder están derribando barreras o apoderándose de algo a lo que no tienen derecho.

To put this the other way round, we have no template for what a powerful woman looks like, except that she looks rather like a man.