Quotes About Cultural norms

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

A line has been drawn around her hut. She has been told very clearly that only within the line do the laws of culture apply; here she is Ram's wife. Outside is nature, where the rules of marriage make no sense; she is just a woman for the taking.

Within there is regard for the law of marriage; without there isn't any. Within, Sita is Rama's wife. Outside, she is a woman for the taking. Ravana knows that if he enters Rama's hut and forces himself on Sita he will be judged by the rules of society. But when he forces himself on Sita outside the Lakshmana-rekha, he will be judged by the laws of the jungle. Within, he will be the villain who disregarded the laws of marriage. Outside, he will be hero, the great trickster.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

After all, why should a woman have to change her name for a man?

Faithfulness is a social not a biological law.

Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens , and there really wasn't anybody to ask.

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

Yes, we love the good men in our lives and sometimes, oftentimes, the bad ones too- but that we're not in full revolution against the lot of them is pretty amazing when you consider this truth: men get to rape and kill women and still come home to a dinner cooked by one.

Dating their daughters? Isn't it possible to encourage fathers to spend more time with their daughters without using language usually reserved for romantic relationships? Neutral, family-based rhetoric would probably be just as effective and would certainly be less, well, creepy. But calling daddy/daughter quality time "dates" speaks volumes about how young women are valued in the virginity movement--for their sexuality

The reason men rule is because women let them.

Sex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission.

Fumatul este o necesitate pentru b?rba?i, dar o cochet?rie pentru femei.

É repreensível para um rapaz de 15 anos fingir ter 18 para poder conduzir um carro ou beber num bar; mas frequentemente o contexto social torna um dever para a mulher fazer-se passar por mais nova ou fisicamente mais sedutora do que na realidade é.

Domestic Eroticism is wrapped in a veil of appropriateness

Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.

Using a well-worn metaphor, culture can be viewed as the software that runs the hardware of human society.

Women do not normally fuck in the active sense. They are fucked in the passive tense and hence automatically fucked-up, done over, undone.

Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.