Quotes About Gender

It is dangerous to feel sorry for one's oppressor — women are especially prone to this failing — but I am tempted to do it in this case. Being unable to love is hell.

cinsel s?n?flaÅŸmay? ve bunun aile yap?s? içindeki derin köklerini düÅŸünürsek, bugün doÄŸan herhangi bir kiÅŸinin, egemenlik psikolojisinin ortadan kald?r?ld???n? görebilmesi hemen hemen olanaks?zd?r.

Demek ki kad?n?n baÅŸlang?çta ve sonraki ezilmesine yol açan ÅŸey doÄŸurgan bedensel yap?s?d?r.

Tap?lmak, özgür olmak demek deÄŸildir. Çünkü tap?nma eylemi baÅŸka birisinin kafas?nda olmakt?r; o kafa da Erkek kafas?d?r. Böylece tarih boyunca, kültürün her evresi ve her türünde, kad?nlar bedensel iÅŸlevleri yüzünden ezilmiÅŸlerdir.

Thus 'falling in love' is no more than the process of alteration of male vision - through idealization, mystification, glorification - that renders void the woman's class inferiority.

On the one hand, they had most of the legal freedoms, the literal assurance that they were considered full political citizens of society - and yet they had no power. They had educational opportunities - and yet were unable, and not expected, to employ them. They had freedoms of clothing and sex mores that they had demanded - and yet they were still sexually exploited.

When a man believes all women are alike, but wants women from guessing, what does he do? He keeps his beliefs to himself, and pretends, to allay her suspicions, that what she has in common with other women is precisely what makes her different. Thus her sexuality eventually became synonymous with her individuality. The sex privatization of women is the process whereby women are blinded to their generality as a class which renders them invisible as individuals to the male eye.

Ich zum Beispiel sehe aus wie immer. Wie eine Schlampe ungewissen Alters, die Männer auslutscht, Zigaretten verschlingt, auf hohen Hacken hockt, in ihrem Dekoleté nach Dingen sucht, nach Spaghetti oder ausgelutschten Kippen, nichts findet und sich darauf einen Mann ansteckt.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Larsen's portrayal of Black female atheism in her 1928 novel is

birth, girls' sexuality is a commodity, an object, an asset, and a "liability" to be marketed, bought, sold, and controlled in a birth-to-death cycle in which girls and women are straightjacketed by a litany of dos and (mostly) don'ts.

Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work . Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.

se na sociedade capitalista a "feminilidade" foi construída como uma função-trabalho que oculta a produção da força de trabalho sob o disfarce de um destino biológico, a história das mulheres é a história das classes, [...] "mulher" é uma categoria de análise legítima, e as atividades associadas à reprodução seguem sendo um terreno de luta fundamental para as mulheres.

Even the unspeakable tortures to which the accused women were subjected acquire a different meaning when we conceive them as a form of exorcism against their powers.

La caza de brujas no sólo santificaba la supremacía masculina, también inducía a los hombres a temer a las mujeres e incluso a verlas como destructoras del sexo masculino.

Uma vez mais, muito da violência empregada é dirigida contra as mulheres, porque, na era do computador, a conquista do corpo feminino continua sendo uma precondição para a acumulação de trabalho e riqueza, tal como demonstra o investimento institucional no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias reprodutivas que, mais do que nunca, reduzem as mulheres a meros ventres.

Homosexuality and heterosexuality are both working conditions ... but homsexuality is workers' control of production, not the end of work.

La caza de brujas ahondó las divisiones entre mujeres y hombre, inculcó a los hombres el miedo al poder de las mujeres y destruyó un universo de prácticas, creencias y sujetos sociales cuya existencia era incompatible con la disciplina del trabajo capitalista, redefiniendo así los principales elementos de reproducción social.

a transição para o capitalismo é uma questão primordial para a teoria feminista, já que a redefinição das tarefas produtivas e reprodutivas e as relações homem-mulher nesse período, ambas realizadas com máxima violência e intervenção estatal, não deixam dúvidas quanto ao caráter construído dos papéis sexuais na sociedade capitalista.

Los barriletes son juegos de varones. — Los juguetes no tienen sexo.