“Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this, of course, since the nuclear family has traditionally served to enslave womyn, instill a self-righteous moralism in its members, and imprint rigid notions of heterosexualist roles onto the next generation. [They named] their offspring the non-gender-specific "Baby.” LittlesSelfPoliticalCoursesNextRolesGenerationsBabyMembersNotionSorryGenderNuclearFairyFairy TaleRighteousNext GenerationPolitical CorrectnessOffspringCottagesInstillSelf RighteousNuclear FamiliesMoralismGoldilocks Author:James Finn Garner
“When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.” FeelsLittlesI CanDifferentBeliefBitsWalksRaceClassEconomicMembersLittle BitShoesGenderDifferent TimesDifferent RacesDifferent BeliefsEconomic Class Author:Roger Ebert
“We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.” Has BeensHappensCultureLiteratureParticularMembersGender Author:Andrew Cohen
“Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.” DifferentMomentsUseHouseIssuesMembersWesternIncludingGenderOppressionIntroducingPublishingConstructsVeilsIranianDiasporaTropesPresenterPublishing House Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.” ThinkingMatterHardNextHalfHugeMembersCongressGenderI RealizedFixedBoardsCeoPresidencyDisparityBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.” PeopleMeanMatterJobsMy OwnRaceSituationClassEconomicRight NowMembersLosingGenderFamily Members Author:Bell Hooks
“There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayHappensIgnoranceColorMembersDemocraticGenderOur SocietyOrientationFacetsThis SocietyDemocratic Society Author:Dolores Huerta
“If you are trying to live with and maintain ascendancy over same-gender attractions, the best way to do that is to have groups that define their members in terms other than same-gender attractions.” IfsWayTryingTermGroupsMembersGenderAttractionBest WayAscendancy Author:Dallin H. Oaks