Quotes About Gender

L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?

El "sexo", la categoría, obliga al "sexo", la configuración social de los cuerpos, a través de lo que Wittig denomina un contrato forzoso. Así pues, la categoría de "sexo" es un nombre que esclaviza. El lenguaje "arroja manojos de realidad sobre el cuerpo social", pero estos manojos no se desechan con facilidad y añade: al formarlo y configurarlo de forma violenta.

EÄŸer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eÄŸer bu, yaklaÅŸmay? denediÄŸi ideali düzenli olarak doÄŸuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psiÅŸik toplumsal cinsiyet çekirdeÄŸi yan?lsamas?n? doÄŸuran bir temsildir; içsel derinlik yan?lsamas?n? tende, jestle, hareketle, yürüyüÅŸle (cinsiyetin takdimi olarak anla??lan bedensel temsiller silsilesiyle) doÄŸurur.

women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both—while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both.

I can't understand why men are allowed to straddle a horse, while we - who are supposed to be the weaker sex - must hang off the side, praying for our lives.

Be careful,' Irene warned Miri. 'All boys want the same thing.' So do girls, Miri thought.

because everyone knew you knitted argyle socks only for a boyfriend.

So I wrote I think male teachers are the opposite of female teachers. There! That ought to do it. It was a stupid answer, but I also thought it was a pretty stupid question.

When women's lib hit the headlines many of these second-generation ranch women sniffed around its edges and pitched it back like a dead carp. If equality meant doing a man's work, you could have it. That brand of equality had dug their mothers an early grave and was three feet down on their own. They'd come a long way baby, and were on the road back to being real ladies -- or so it appeared.

Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate only if we accept and work within existing mainstream designations. If women have no real role as women in the process of defining art, then we are essentially prevented from helping to shape cultural symbols.

Zeros now have a place, and they displace the phallic order of ones.

I question this stereotype of the technologically tethered worker with no control over his time. Instead, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for both work-related and personal matters is shown to have positive, as well as negative, implications for men and women workers. The contemporary office has by my account morphed into a ubiquitous technoscape, and this has reconfigured the very nature of working time.

Judith Butler, for example, has argued that men's and women's interests are not objectively given, but are collectively created.

El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasía de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que le permiten volar hacía el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación.

El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasía, de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que le permiten volar hacia el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación. Los dioses son como hombres: nacen y mueren sobre el pecho de una mujer.

We ain't in the game to love these hoes, you suppose to hit it and pass it to the left. I didn't love that hoe, it was just something to do.

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

1. the law of perpetual transmutation 2. the law of relativity 3. the law of vibration 4. the law of polarity 5. the law of rhythm 6. the law of cause and effect 7. the law of gender

Ruth believes that boys are not found around stables because what they like is taking things apart and putting them together again, and for this purpose horses are not so satisfactory as cars, motorcycles, and even bicycles, while girls adore horses because they are biological and have functions.

What I am sure of is that friendship—not love, friendship—is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.

I don't care how they speculate, or what their answers are. We live as we can, we do what we must, and not everything goes by either Freudian or Victorian patterns. What I am sure of is that friendship—not love, friendship—is as possible between women as between men, and that in either case it is often stronger for not having to cross sexual picket lines. Sexuality and mistrust often go together, and both are incompatible with amicitia.

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.