“Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared 'I am woman, I am strong'; men are saying 'I am man, I am okay.' After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that's not a bad start.” MenBeautifulStrongProcessBlackCenturyPrideOkayMalesQuartersBeautiful WomenStrong ManI Am StrongI Am WomanProcess Of ChangeQuarter Of A CenturyBlack Is BeautifulBlack Pride Author:Warren Farrell
“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.” MenDreamPastCertainSexJusticePrinciplesCenturyDangerousIntegrityEternalWeaknessBuiltFemaleMalesFeministSexualityDependencePsychicsFemininityProjectionMasochismImbecilityDependabilityUnreliability Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.” IfsReasonWhiteCenturyArmyAssumingMalesReason WhyExplanationConspiracySurvivedZombie Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are such institutions - must have experienced the desire for self-destruction.” SelfDesireCultureLiteratureCenturyDestructionClaimsInstitutionsMalesSexismSpheresAestheticsSelf Destruction Author:Christa Wolf
“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.” MenWellsChildrenImportantSchoolSocialGrowthChallengesAcceptingRolesViolenceEconomicCenturyCreationSucceedPrisonMalesSpreadExperimentsReformWell BeingWelfareAccomplishmentTrendsStakesConstructionDeclineTolerateReverseFatherhoodTwentieth CenturyEconomic GrowthRecessionsInevitabilityArrestingWelfare ReformSocial RolesFatherlessness Author:David Blankenhorn
“The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.” MenCenturyMalesPrivilegeAlcoholBarsKingdomsGatheringSessionIndulgeBullsIndulge InMale PrivilegeGathering Places Author:Shulamith Firestone
“I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition.” ThinkingCenturyFemaleTwentiesInstitutionsCompetitionMalesReincarnationLama Author:Dalai Lama
“I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.” CharacterCenturyFemaleProgramMales21st CenturyFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis
“I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live in, and how you think. I found it quite natural to think as a male because I actually think that as a female, one often thinks in the mind of a male in terms of eroticism. You think about what the other person feels. So it's not that hard to imagine being that person.” ThinkingFeelsMindPersonsHardJoyFoundSexTermNaturalImagineCenturyFemaleMalesGreat Joy Author:Rebecca Miller
“To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?” MenShouldWellsMadeSexPleasureCenturyDemandProveFemaleThirdsStrongerIndependenceMalesRefuseTyrannyGrantsSoleAdmittingLashesHermaphrodites Author:Charles Fourier
“Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.” YearsHumansChildrenAgeSocialProcessClassMiddleCenturyMalesBoredomDestructiveMiddle ClassAdolescenceArrangementsSegregationHuman History19th CenturyMiddle Class FamilySweatshops Author:Newt Gingrich
“The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison - that is an absolutely astonishing statistic. And it ought to be terrorizing to not just to people of color, but to all of us.” PeopleThreeBlackBornJusticeCenturyColorBabyOughtPrisonMalesReportsJailAstonishingBlack MalesBaby Born Author:Bryan Stevenson
“Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.” LittlesCharacterKidsRolesCenturyFemaleMales21st CenturyLittle KidStunningFemale Characters Author:Geena Davis