Quotes About Gender

Experiments that measure readers' comprehension times to the thousandth of a second have shown that singular they causes little or no delay, but generic he slows them down a lot.

In this way of thinking, the fact that women show a lot of skin or that men curse in public is not a sign of cultural decay. On the contrary, it's a sign that they live in a society that is so civilized that they don't have to fear being harassed or assaulted in response.

Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

In all foraging societies, presumably including our ancestors, hunting is overwhelmingly a male activity. Women are cumbered with children which makes hunting inconvenient and men are bigger and more adapted to killing because of they're evolutionary history of killing each other.

Men fantasize about copulating with bodies; women fantasize about making love to people.

But now the Boy Gender has lost another battle in its age-old war with camp counselors, phys ed teachers, lawyers, and moms. In school district after school district, dodgeball has been banned.

men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Men and women are from Africa, the cradle of our evolution, where they evolved together as a single species

Though the United States and other Western nations are often accused of being misogynistic patriarchies, the rest of the world is immensely worse.

In the United States, Canada, and Australia, fewer than 3 percent of women report that their partners assaulted them in the previous year, but the reports from other countries are an order of magnitude higher: 27 percent in a Nicaraguan sample, 38 percent in a Korean sample, and 52 percent in a Palestinian sample.

Archer found that countries in which women are better represented in government and the professions, and in which they earn a larger proportion of earned income, are less likely to have women at the receiving end of spousal abuse.

Even evolutionary explanations of the traditional division of labor by sex do not imply that it is unchangeable, "natural" in the sense of good, or something that should be forced on individual women or men who don't want it.

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.