Quotes About Gender

Male and female sexuality are very different, we are told, [...] None the less women are instructed to try to develop male sexual responses in order to be the 'ideal lover'. [...] So clearly sexual behaviour is not natural or inevitable. It can be learned where this serves the interests of male-dominant heterosexuality, and is only disconcertingly recalcitrant where such learning might serve women's interests.

Pornography gave the lie to any idea that women were gradually achieving equality. Pornography made it clear that what constituted sex under male supremacy was precisely the eroticised subordination of women.

Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy.

Aunque las lesbianas tratan de imitar con servilismo las costumbres del heteropatriarcado para no parecer peligrosas, no pueden redimir su deslealtad fundamental.

It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Men always say the most important thing in a woman is a sense of humor. You know what that means? He's looking for someone to laugh at his jokes.

a woman's got as much right -and more cause- to get drunk than any man

heterosexual male who works in this building. Much to the chagrin of the members

She'd never call Smith males "womanizers." Although she would call them whores.

He's jealous of you." "Is that right?" "Of course! Because no matter what he does, when he puts on your shorts and one of your bras, he never looks as cute in them as you do.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!" With that, I had no option but to join them.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

We're our own worst enemies a lot of the time, but I still blame men.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes... men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I went to a birthday party in a dress and all the hockey players were like... 'Kyle?'

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.