Quotes About Norms

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

In Burma, our main goal in amending the constitution is not to phase out the military from politics. Our main point is to put the constitution in line with international standards and norms.

Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire (for example, shorts, s.

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things "because we're supposed to.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Normalize cruelty and cheating and mix it with power. Legitimate power works the best. Stir in as much chaos as possible and before you know it, old norms are gone, and everyone is off kilter.

Taboo is not a word considered with any seriousness in the Old World.

If most of the time they do and feel and think and watch and eat and drink precisely what everyone else does, are Americans really free? There

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.

In fact the taboo against killing and eating one's relatives is the most fundamental precondition if people are to live together and cooperate on a daily basis.

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.

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

how sex roles are determined by the forces around us rather than our genes.

Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.

Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.

regla principal es que, si quieres parecer cuerdo en la Tierra, tienes que estar en el lugar adecuado, llevar las ropas adecuadas, decir las cosas adecuadas y pisar solo el césped adecuado.