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Quotes About Gender

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
~ Marissa Mayer
I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
~ Marissa Mayer
I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
~ Marissa Meyer
I'm too much a man for hysterics." Liu, Marjorie M. (2009-01-20). Hunter Kiss: A Companion Novella to The Iron Hunt and Darkness Calls (A Hunter Kiss Novella) (Kindle Locations 355-356). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember
~ Unknown
Rather than select one lens to look at gender dysphoria, we can look through all three, identify the strengths of each framework and apply it to how we approach the topic and the person who is navigating this terrain. What we have then is what I refer to as an integrated framework that draws on the best of each existing framework.
~ Unknown
The talk was supposed to be about gender and sexuality in music videos. Those who know how I usually flow were tripping at the title [Alicia vs. India], but I had to remind them that had I called the talk "Gender and Sexuality in Music Videos," wouldn't nobody be up in the room.
~ Unknown
As kids we were warned against playing with gender as if it were a plastic bag THIS IS NOT A TOY but here are some pictures of you in drag getting ready to head out to a party or maybe that was the party
~ Unknown
None of it's about what God wants, it's just about men wanting to run everything and girls like me knowing their place. Behaving PROPERLY.
~ Mark Billingham
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.
~ Mark Davis
Why didn't women come with a freaking Error Message box?
~ Unknown
How should a system convince people that they do not possess their sex properly? Teach them that in their possession it is shapeless and unconditioned. Only once it has been modified, layered with experts, honeycombed with norms, overlaid with pictorial representations, and sold back to them can it fulfill itself as what its possessors "always wanted".
~ Unknown
Oh my God, is it really the womens'? Sorry...
~ Mark Hoppus
Aristotele credeva che la regina non fosse una femmina ma un maschio, e dunque un re, e che le operaie si sviluppassero a partire da una sostanza progenitrice che gli adulti raccoglievano dai fiori e non da uova deposte dalla regina.
~ Unknown
The problems I write of in this section do not focus on only violent practices inside correctional facilities, detention centers, or federal, state, and local prisons and jails. Just as importantly, these internal dynamics are significant because they express and reinforce sexual inequality and gender injustice in the larger society.
~ Unknown
Monotheistic Yahwism resembled neither a Greek philosophical notion of Deity as nonsexual Being nor some type of divine bisexuality. Instead, Israelite society perceived Yahweh primarily as a god, embodying traits or values expressed by gendered metaphors yet transcending such particular renderings. It is unnecessary and it is not supported by any biblical text to argue that monotheistic Yahweh involved either androgyny or homoeroticism
~ Unknown
Bond is now the Bond Girl of the opening credits. It's his silhouette we see – and nary a dancing naked babe in sight. Perhaps to compensate for this, in the actual film he gets his tits out a lot. He emerges from the sea glistening, showing off his pumped boobs, like Ursula Andress in 'Dr No' — save his nipples are more prominent. Bond has finally become his own Bond Girl.
~ Unknown
Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, 'man-bags' or 'manscara'. Or about men becoming 'girlie' or 'gay'. It's about men becoming everything. To themselves. In much the way that women have been for some time. It's the end of the sexual division of bathroom and bedroom labour. It's the end of sexuality as we've known it.
~ Unknown
The breathtaking gall, and the astonishing achievement, of films like Commando is that men's bodybuilding – the obsessive interest of men in men's bodies – and the appropriation of gay macho drag by heterosexual men became both a reassertion of the masculine body's 'natural' superiority over the female and a disavowal of homosexuality.
~ Unknown
In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.
~ Unknown
Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic's unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining desire to be desired looks more like a glamorous prophet, preparing the way for the Metrosexy 21st Century.
~ Unknown
This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.
~ Unknown
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
~ Mark Twain
Frailty, thy name is woman!
~ William Shakespeare