Quotes About Gender

Una donna può facilmente uccidere per strada, in mezzo alla folla, lo può fare più facilmente di un uomo. La sua violenza sembra un gioco, una parodia, un uso improprio e un po' ridicolo della determinazione maschile a fare il male.

Ma verso Stefano, adesso, non manifestava nessuna esplicita aggressività. Certo, la spiegazione era semplice: avevamo visto i nostri padri picchiare le nostre madri fin dall'infanzia. Eravamo cresciute pensando che un estraneo non ci doveva nemmeno sfiorare, ma che il genitore, il fidanzato e il marito potevano prenderci a schiaffi quando volevano, per amore, per educarci, per rieducarci.

They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.

If nothing could save us, not money, not a male body, and not even studying, we might as well destroy everything immediately.

Isabel le disgustaba que establecieran diferencias entre ella y sus hermanos. Le humillaba la idea de que el único futuro para las mujeres fuera el matrimonio. Hablar del matrimonio como de una solución la dejaba reducida a una mercancía a la que había que dar salida a cualquier precio.

Me refiero a su situación, señora -acentuó el señora, lo dejó caer hasta el fondo del infierno: se-ño-ra-, y lo que de ella puede derivarse.

The Man's rage is huge. Moil and toil and turmoil, he's coming to the boil, time to cool the heat with a jet of foam. He wants the woman to take off her clothes right away. So that she measures up to his size. He wants to conduct his lightning into her. Not that his wildfire could ever be tamed by her, and anyway he has plenty of matches. To create himself anew, as often as need be.

terwijl de mannen mooi rijpen en ouder beginnen te worden en zich te goed doen aan de alcohol - die moet hen sterk en kankerloos houden -, duurt de doodstrijd van hun vrouwen vaak jaren en jaren, vaak ook nog zo lang dat ze de doodsstrijd van hun dochters kunnen meemaken. de vrouwen beginnen hun dochters te haten en willen hen zo gauw mogelijk ook laten sterven als zij zelf eens zijn gestorven, daarom: man gezocht.

n?u m?t ng??i có s? m?nh thì ?ó là ?àn ông, còn n?u m?t ng??i ch?u s? m?nh thì ?ó là ?àn bà.

Indem die Frau nicht mehr gefällt, tut sie den ersten Schritt zu ihrer Freiwerdung. Ein Tritt gegen die Basis einer Pyramide aus stiller Gewalt...

Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birth and made peace with it as a girl, a tomboy, a dyke, a queer woman, a butch. But uncovering my desire to transition—to live as a genderqueer, a female-to-male transgender person, a white guy—challenged everything I thought I knew about self-acceptance and love.

The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non disabled people move…The construct of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also on the non disabled body.

The Eastern Question, too, was something I had heard of: like "the Woman Question," it turned up in nineteenth-century novels. The Eastern Question was essentially, "How do we divide up all the Ottomans' stuff?" It wasn't so different from the Woman Question, which was about whether women could have jobs and money. The things some people considered a "question." If you read stuff like that all your life, it would make you hate Russia.

Part of the way of the world was that women had a tendency to go crazy. Men could bring out this tendency. But to blame the men was to take sides, to lose logic, to enter the craziness of the women—because the very content of the women's craziness was, in large part, the blameworthiness of the men.

Was this because their neurological hardwiring made them better at systems, while women were better at empathy—because men valued abilities and things, while women valued feelings and people? How could we learn to place less value on feelings and people?

He left before she woke up—because of how disgusted he was by women's tears and prayers, "which change everything yet are really of no consequence." I thought about that a lot: about what she could have said that would have been of consequence.

Why was that the thing you had to do when you saw a girl: to prosecute whether and in what way she was beautiful—as Lara, I realized, was? With guys, some of them were physically repellent or appealing, but a lot of them initially presented as neutral, and there wasn't that immediate, urgent-feeling cognitive puzzle to slot them in, as there was with literally every female person, including one's own self, in windows and storefronts.

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. Why

Women may show some discrimination about whom they sleep with, but they'll marry anybody.

His daughters had lived their early life in permanent disgrace for having, none of them, been born a boy.

The more balanced power equation between women and men Below the Winds encouraged serial monogamy and easy divorce for both parties… Hybridity was therefore the norm for these cities, up to the point when communication with the homeland became so well established that its prejudices were imported.…. Southeast Asian women were therefore the pioneers of cultural interaction with outsiders, a creative role appreciated by neither nationalist nor imperialist authors.

The specious idea that gender differences are due entirely to culture, and have nothing to do with biological or archetypal predispositions, still enjoys wide currency in our society, yet it rests on the discredited tabula rasa theory of human development and is at variance with the overwhelming mass of anthropological and scientific evidence.

One of those pretty boys we put up front to avoid being accused of only putting pretty girls up there.

To these women, the veil constitutes an extremely important part of the idea of 'getting dressed', whereas in the West the veil represents a symbol of male dominance..