gender-stereotypes

He says in his defence he never meddled with married women, only with virgins.

You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...)

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.That is, on many levels, astounding to me. I mean, that's like having a freaking superpower. When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know that they ~existed~ until I read that stupid article, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

There is a time in a boy__ life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.

One day stores will no longer have gender classifications. Instead the consumer decides how and what they want, rather than the social engineering of corporations. The concept of gender will be extinct.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

Do you love him?__eryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. __e makes me feel like that. Like flying.___hen, you have to tell him.___ told you, I kissed him!___t__ hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn__ love, Mr. Sharp.___ye, and what exactly was it?___uriosity._ Lilit smiled. __nd as I said, you__e quite a dashing boy.___ut I__ pretty sure Alek doesn__ want a dashing boy!___ou can__ be sure until you ask.__eryn shook her head. __ou were raised to throw bombs. I wasn__.___ere you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.

All men are __eal men_, whether they wear KingGees or a pink tutu.

Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. Don't let society make you believe you have to prove your masculinity to anyone because you don't. You are you and you are worthy, full stop.

Guys, you don't have to act "manly" to be considered a man; you are a man, so just be yourself. You don't have to prove your masculinity to anyone.

Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look strong and be tough, women to look pretty and soft. Men to be masculine, women to be feminine. Men get judged for being "too feminine", women get criticized for being "too masculine". Gender policing affects us all.

To every guy who tries to say that we have already achieved equality for the sexes, if this were true, you wouldn't be told to "man up", "be a man", "stop being a p*#%y", "harden the fuck up", "toughen up", "boys don't cry", "don't be such a girl", "stop being a wimp". As long as this type of language still exists in our society, then gender equality, my friends, has in fact not been achieved after all.

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in the workforce, still believe that emotional work is female labor. Most men continue to uphold the sexist decree that emotions have no place in the work world and that emotional labor at home should be done by females.

Even as a child, In-hye had possessed the innate strength of a character necessary to make one's own way in life. As a daughter, as an older sister, as a wife and as a mother, as the owner of a shop, even as an underground passenger on the briefest of journeys, she had always done her best. Through the sheer inertia pf a life lived in this way, she would have been able to conquer everything, even time. If only Yeong-hye hadn't suddenly disappeared last March. If only she hadn't been discovered in the forest that rainy night. If only all of her symptoms hadn't suddenly got worse.