“When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.” LooksBeautifulYoungGirlSportsGrowing UpGrowingFitFemaleAthleteLook UpMusclesStereotypeAthleticSoftballFemale AthleteWnba Author:Jennie Finch
“The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.” IfsGivingMeanTwoCharacterBeautifulActorsOpportunityStrongOpinionHigherPoliticianFitSmartExpectationsFemaleIntelligentIndependentSexyVersionsLatterOur SocietyCategoriesBeing SmartOpinionatedSad Things Author:Amber Heard
“Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.” YearsMayDoneSeemsFunSexSidesCoupleFitFemaleMalesIllegalBad ThingsCoinsSex WorkIllegal Things Author:Kate Bornstein
“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.” IfsLittlesTwoHomeMotherFatherHoursDarkFeetBabyMonthsFitFemaleBlindLaysWeatherEggsComing HomeEmperorTwo MonthsHaving A BabyPenguinsEgg Rolls Author:L. M. Boyd
“Being a bigger person, whether you're male or female, in entertainment, it can hurt your chances. Because people look to you to be a so-called superstar. Perfect body, perfect figure, good looking, and smart. And larger people, we have to fit in anywhere we can and the best way we can, so to speak. The way the world looks at you at being perfect, and nobody's perfect.” PeopleWorldWayLooksPersonsBodySpeakHurtChancePerfectFiguresFitSmartFemaleBiggerMalesEntertainmentBest WayLooking GoodSuperstarNobody's PerfectBigger Person Author:Bruce Bruce
“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesReasonEnoughWholeRunningIssuesRocksIndustryFitMusicianFemaleShould HaveHarderRidiculousMagazinesGenreReason WhyNo ReasonThank GodHad EnoughLilithGreat FemaleFemale Musicians Author:Princess Superstar
“Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story?” FirstsStoriesPresidentInterestingFitFemaleClintonFascinatingThroatJacketsLumpsMaoCoughingFemale President Author:Rush Limbaugh