“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
“Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.” MenMovingYoungCultureViolenceDangerousMalesYoung ManEmpoweringEmpowering WomenPastimeSubcultureGlorification Book:The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.” KindGirlBoysDangerousMalesGangInvolvementHanging AroundKind Of Girl Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenHas BeensStoriesLiteratureDangerousMalesClassicAssumptionOdysseyTurfClassical Literature Author:Gloria Steinem
“A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego.” ThinkingMenCareWorstDangerousEgoMalesInsultMale Ego Author:Martha Shelley