Quotes About Stigma

until ... the promiscuous woman is recognized, not only in law but in public opinion, as being neither better nor worse than the promiscuous man, equality has not been won in the moral sphere.

I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

Men are never brave, are they?

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

The mass criminalization of white men would disturb us to the core.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].