Quotes About Gender

We don't kill women who've been raped, but we do expect them to have the decency to show that they are damaged goods, that they have been polluted. They may become hookers, or ugly, whatever, as long as they spontaneously exit the marriage market.

Les femmes autour de moi gagnent effectivement moins d'argent que les hommes, occupent des postes subalternes, trouvent normal d'être sous-considérées quand elles entreprennent quelque chose. Il y a une fierté de domestique à devoir avancer entravées, comme si c'était utile, agréable ou sexy.

Seduction is within the reach of most young women, as long as they agree to play the game, because it mostly consists of reassuring men about their virility by playing the femininity game.

In [porn] films, the actress has male-type sexuality. To put it bluntly, she behaves exactly like a gay man in a back room. She is shown in the film as always wanting sex, with anyone, in every hole. And she comes every time. As a man in a woman's body would.

Women] are not even foreigners but we are constantly subtitled, because we don't know what we have to say. Or at least not as well as the dominant male, who has for centuries been writing books on the question of femininity and its implications.

After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the conclusion that femininity is the same thing as bootlicking. The art of servility. You can call it seduction to make it sound glamorous. But it is very rarely a skilled sport. For the majority of women, it's the simple habit of behaving as an inferior.

Waking into a room, checking whether there are men in it, wanting to please them. Not talking to loud. Not being forceful. Not sitting with your legs splayed to be more comfortable. Not speaking with authority. Not talking about money. Not wanting a position of authority. Not seeking glory. Not laughing too loud. Not being too funny. Pleasing men is a complex art, which requires that one should eliminate anything remotely concerned with power.

Ne pas aimer les femmes, chez un homme, c'est une attitude. Ne pas aimer les hommes, chez une femme, c'est une pathologie.

I am not saying that being a woman is in itself a painful constraint. Some women do it very well. It's the obligation which is degrading. Of course the great seductresses are right up there in terms of reputation. Figure skaters are pretty cool, too -- but no one expects us all to be figure skaters. Horsewomen have their own special charm -- but you don't get given a saddle and bridle the moment you want to exist.

Pretender que los hombres y las mujeres se llevaban mejor antes de los años setenta es una contraverdad histórica. Nos frecuentábamos menos, eso es todo.

cuando afirmamos que la prostitución es una «violencia contra las mujeres» es para que olvidemos que es el matrimonio lo que constituye una violencia contra las mujeres y, de modo general, todo lo que aguantamos.

No querer a las mujeres, cuando se es hombre, es una actitud. No querer a los hombres, cuando se es mujer, es una patología.

La confiscación del cuerpo de las mujeres se produce al mismo tiempo que la confiscación del cuerpo de los hombres. Los únicos que salen ganando en este negocio son los dirigentes.

You still often hear people say, "Prostitutes reduce the number of rapes," as if males couldn't control themselves, as if they had to unload themselves somewhere. They would have us believe this is a natural -- instinctual -- fact and not the created political belief it is.

Qué se imaginarán los tíos que esconden las chicas para querer siempre verlas por todas partes?

Because if the prostitution contract became part of everyday life, the marriage contract would be shown up more clearly for what it is: a market in which for a bargain price the woman agrees to carry out a certain number of chores -- notably sexual -- to ensure a man's comfort.

Gail Pheterson writes in the Prostitution Prism that, "Significantly, those who explicitly provide sex are defined by their activity as 'prostitutes', a stigmatized and/or criminalized status, while those who buy sex are neither defined or branded by engagement in the same activity.

What women do with their bodies as long as they're around men with power and money actually seems to me very near to prostitution. I still don't catch the subtle difference between the sort of femininity sold in magazines and that of the whore.

The important thing is to put across the idea that no woman may profit from her sexual services outside marriage. In no case is she adult enough to make a business out of her charms. She necessarily prefers an honest profession. Which is judged honest by the moral authorities. And not degrading. Because for women, sex without love is always degrading.

The political strategy of victimizing prostitutes also serves this purpose of branding male desire and confining it in its own squalor. He can pay to come if he wants, but he'll have to rub shoulders with filth, shame, and poverty. The prostitution transaction -- "I pay you, you satisfy me" -- is the basis of the heterosexual contract. It is hypocritical to pretend, as we do, that this transaction is foreign to our culture.

Quoi qu'elles entreprennent, on doit pouvoir démontrer qu'elles s'y sont mal prises. Il n'y a pas d'attitude correcte, on a forcément commis une erreur dans nos choix, on est tenues pour responsables d'une faillite qui est en réalité collective, et mixte. Les armes contre notre genre sont spécifiques, mais la méthode s'applique aux hommes. Un bon consommateur est un consommateur insécure.

Who is in fact the victim [of porn]? The actresses, who surrender their dignity the moment we see them giving a blow job? Or the male viewers, weak and unable to overcome their wish to watch sex, or to understand that what they are watching is merely a performance?

Men] have to be the ones to make the woman come. Female masturbation continues to be contemptible and secondary. The orgasm we are supposed to reach is the one given by the man.

Dizem com frequência que a pornografia aumenta o número de estupros. Hipócrita e absurdo. Como se a agressão sexual fosse uma invenção recente, e como se tivesse sido introduzida em nossos espíritos através dos filmes.