Quotes About Norms

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.

The existentialists said you couldn't make decisions based on preexisting norms or codes, which were always too general for any given case. Rather, every decision you made created you. The decision (existence) comes first, and creates essence.

Paradoxically, the period of liberation from European power structures marked an unprecedented embrace of modern European cultural and political norms. It marked probably the most dramatic iconoclasm towards Asian traditional cultures of any period in history.

Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms, then there will be too much cheating, and cooperation will break down. However, if the group is too rigid in its social norms, then it will fail to adapt to new circumstances.

Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they've ever been given before, but it's thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I don't think gender even exists.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

Gender is a shackle.

I thought having to explain the risibility of gender codes would be mostly behind us by now.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

Todos querem o mesmo, todos são iguais: o que pensa de outro modo tende a ir para o manicómio.

A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper.

The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

The good woman, who makes all the sacrifices is always the one with long hair.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.