How are women like linoleum floors? If you lay ’em right the first time, you can walk all over them for the next 20 years or so.
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Quotes tagged ‘Misogyny’
Is Google a woman? Because it won’t let you finish your sentence without coming up with other suggestions.
After centuries of feminist activism, it finally seems like most of society understands that sexual assault and harassment are wrong; we increasingly understand that it’s not just about sex, but about power, and that harassment in the workplace isn’t about sexual desire, but about women’s rights to…
And I also hope men start to understand one day, that women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. We are only just starting to find our voices and demand equality. Do not abuse our conditioning to bend to your whims. Especially in the bedroom.
A war among women, as opposed to a war on women, is always pleasing to those who do not wish women well.
You seem to be so progressive, but when it comes to the sexes, it's like we're in the 1950s. Woman in the shadows while we're still supporting the men.
You're a man's woman. You hate other women, and they hate you.
As for the male chauvinist stuff, I am a male chauvinist; women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.
Obviously finding out something terrible about someone you love is difficult, but the best way to show your support for women – and this moment – is not to reflect on your own feelings or surprise, but on the victims.
Did you hear about the actress who was so dumb, she couldn’t count to two without taking off her blouse?
Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
pro tip: if everyone you admire keeps disappointing you with awful sex scandals, try admiring more women.
A 5-year old girls also gets raped. A woman covered in a burkha too. A 70-year old woman gets raped. This is not about sexuality or nudity. This is about control and power. I think men are insecure, afraid of being rejected. They can’t control a woman’s sexuality and that scares them. From an early…
Ever since second-wave feminism became part of the political left, there have been men who, ostensibly enlightened in the realm of gender relations, are in fact deeply misogynist and believe that their progressive street cred somehow obviates their attitudes about women, attitudes as regressive as t…
Women are hard enough to handle now, without giving them a gun.
#MeToo is not about sexual violence alone. It is about the misogyny, patriarchy and the disturbingly exorbitant numbers of women sexually assaulted because of it. Why is it that we amplify men’s voices when they are not the ones silenced. It doesn’t mean horrific things don’t happen to men and boys,…
Women attacking other women for not including men in the #MeToo movement feeds into the exact problem about why women’s issues are rarely taken seriously. Women are constantly fighting men’s battles for them and not their own.
When you raise women to believe that we are insignificant, that we are broken, that we are sick, that the only cure is starvation and restraint and smallness; when you pit women against one another, keep us shackled by shame and hunger, obsessing over our flaws, rather than our power and potential;…
Every time a man is accused of something bad, or when someone he knows is accused of something bad, the same quote surfaces: ‘As a father of daughters, I …’ Here’s the thing: Only a sociopath needs a daughter — or a sister, a girlfriend, a wife — to make him queasy enough at the thought of a sexual…
Having a daughter shouldn’t be a requirement for internalizing the problems of working within a sexist industry. Your wives gave birth to a baby girl, not a moral compass.