Quotes About Gender

Por naturaleza, las mujeres poseen una capacidad para disfrutar del sexo con una variedad de hombres, como mínimo, idéntica al interés de éstos por tener experiencias sexuales con una variedad de mujeres.

Aunque en la mayor parte de las sociedades de nivel estatal un varón respetable normal y corriente podía ser infiel en el matrimonio, mantener queridas y visitar prostitutas, las mujeres respetables normales y corrientes se exponían casi universalmente a duras sanciones si manifestaban cualquier tendencia promiscua o poliándrica.

Es el orgasmo femenino, no el masculino, el que corre con los riesgos y costes del embarazo, el parto y la lactancia. Sin duda, esto tiene algo que ver con la tendencia de las mujeres a ser más conservadoras, desde el punto de vista sexual, que los hombres.

En ausencia de métodos anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar con asistencia médica, la promiscuidad sexual posee consecuencias sumamente diferentes para las mujeres.

Los hombres nunca han tenido que poner en un plato de la balanza el placer sexual y en el otro la dolorosa prueba en que culmina el embarazo.

Durante miles de años, los varones han visto a las mujeres no como éstas podían ser, sino exclusivamente como ellos querían que fueran.

Los heterosexuales occidentales tienen tendencia a encasillar a los varones homosexuales en el estereotipo de lo afeminado. Sin embargo, desde los puntos de vista histórico y etnográfico, la forma más frecuente de relación homosexual institucionalizada se da entre hombres instruidos no para ser peluqueros o decoradores, sino guerreros.

Being male forms, since they have not originated from the sickness, which is femaleness,36 but from one who has already left the sickness behind, possess the name "church." For

both have equal worth, value, and dignity as bearers of God's image. Male and female are equally part of the creation that He called "man.

Relinquishing God's design for womanhood has devastating effects on the home, church, and culture. This battle for biblical womanhood is

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women Rule," that's the way I see it. "Beside every great man there is a powerful woman. The same does not hold true for every successful woman. A lot of us are single because men want to wear the pants, even if they didn't buy them.

Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.

I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently. It means decoupling it from public prestige. It means thinking collaboratively, about the power of followers not just of leaders. It means, above all, thinking about power as an attribute or even a verb ('to power'), not as a possession.

But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try to conjure up the image of a president or – to move into the knowledge economy – a professor, what most of us see is not a woman.

More interesting is another cultural connection this reveals: that unpopular, controversial or just plain different views when voiced by a woman are taken as indications of her stupidity. It is not that you disagree, it is that she is stupid: 'Sorry, love, you just don't understand.

first recorded example of a man telling a woman to 'shut up';

What I mean is that public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn't do: they were exclusive practices and skills that defined masculinity as a gender. As we saw with Telemachus, to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak. Public speech was a – if not the – defining attribute of maleness.

to become a man (or at least an elite man) was to claim the right to speak.

In the Afghan parliament, apparently, they disconnect the mics when they don't want to hear the women speak).

we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.