“Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.” Quote by Stephen Marche
“The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.” FirstsPersonsSexStreetsBabyWalkingGender Author:Stephen Marche
“You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.” EconomyWorkplace Author:Stephen Marche
“In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.” MenAmericaNumbersEconomyAmountPercentMen And WomenRisingBreadwinner Author:Stephen Marche
“The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.” PeopleWayShouldMeanDoeBeautifulViolenceCrimeToughCherishDeclineMore MoneyBeautiful ThingsVery BeautifulHorrific Author:Stephen Marche
“Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.” RealityCultureTeachClearFeminismEconomicExampleEchoes Author:Stephen Marche
“We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.” WorldNeedsMadeRealSchoolPoliticalHateLeaderIssuesWifeRightsTrumpTreatedCivil RightsBathroomClownTransgenderPutinSetbackFree World Author:Stephen Marche
“The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.” ThinkingWayReasonUsedSimpleEconomyCenturyMajorsResearchIncomeInequalitySecretary21st CenturyFamily LifeSurgeonsIncome InequalityBeing Popular Author:Stephen Marche
“You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.” MenTwoRealityFallEconomicHappeningsThings HappenTraditionalTwo ThingsMasculinityFalling Apart Author:Stephen Marche
“One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.” HouseWhiteWifeOne ThingTrumpTraditionalWhite HouseMasculinityMasculinePutinParadesParodyPhilippinesHyperUnsurePatriarch Author:Stephen Marche
“Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.” LooksFactsHandsFatherStyleBuildingTaughtTrumpEightTraditionalBlockTiesShakesMasculineParodyBuilding Blocks Author:Stephen Marche