“By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMadeGirlBoysFemaleMalesFeel GoodDancerMale Female Author:Jack Wagner
“Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.” GirlBoysFemaleScientistStressSpeciesMalesBoy And GirlMammals Author:Leonard Sax
“Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins.” StillsFeelingsBodyPainAmericaGirlBoysResearchFemaleTraditionDifficultyMalesConsideringHoodSexuallyRepressedContinuationCircumcision Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Four of my children are daughters, and Ive watched them devote themselves to reading books about how little girls learn to become women - how they learn to deal with boys and men, and the different hurdles females have to go over.” MenChildrenLittlesBookDifferentGirlReadingDealsBoysFourDaughterFemaleMy ChildrenReading BooksHurdle Author:Robert K. Massie
“Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.” IfsGivingChildrenRealBoysGreaterTeacherDisciplineAdvantageFemaleDignityMalesMoodSuperiorsCommandContactEthicalUniformityPhysical Strength Author:G. Stanley Hall
“The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).” BoysExampleMovementKingsFemaleCrossesSticksMalesFolksGenderPostsQueensDividesDragTransgenderTransFemmeSissyDrag QueenDressersTransvestitesDykesTranssexuals Author:Kate Bornstein
“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.” YearsFirstsMadeEvilProcessBoysDogCreationPositionLetting GoFemaleGardenDecidedDoctorsRoseMalesCreatorLegendsAdamDoctor WhoPhantomsRibsPretextEjaculation Author:William S. Burroughs
“For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.” PeopleIfsWritingEasyStuffBoysFemaleProtagonistsBlockbusterFemale Protagonists Author:Linda Woolverton
“Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict breaks out, the males are much better at reconciling. In a study done in Finland, children who had quarreled were asked how much longer they intended to be angry at one another. The boys proudly said: "Oh, at least one or two days." The girls said "forever".” ChildrenSaidTwoDoneHandsGirlBoysBreakForeverStudyViolenceConflictFemaleAngryMalesStrifeTwo DaysBreak OutFinland Author:Frans de Waal
“I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.” IfsKnowsNeedsFacesFeltKnownClassBoysWorstCallingFemaleProfessionInstanceSpokesOver ItOccupationApologizingShamefulDaytimeCushionsLower ClassHumdrum Author:Quentin Crisp
“Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.” YoungGirlParentCommunityHealingBoysSawsBehaviorNegativeFemaleDown AndMalesWellnessOur CommunityAbusive Author:Pam Grier
“My interest in women's voices started when I was in the boys' choir and we were singing in opera choruses. That was my first close-up experience with the female soprano voice. I was amazed at how it could be within the same scale but so different in quality.” FirstsDifferentVoiceInterestQualityBoysSingingFemaleScalesOperaAmazedChorusChoirSopranos Author:Alexander Chee
“You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.” IfsMindBodyBoysViolenceConditionsFemaleNakedVulnerableAttractiveTeenageBrutalityNudityPubertyPlayboyFemale BodySubscription Author:Park Dietz
“I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.” ThinkingKnowsBookBoysFemaleProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson
“As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.” LongProblemBodySeemsGuyGirlBoysGrowing UpGrowingLong TimeFemaleFemale BodyGirls Growing Up Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim