“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” MenLooksTurnsVisionWatchesObjectsMen And WomenFemaleSightRelationMalesDetermineMen WomenSurveyors Author:John Berger
“Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.” SexFantasyCuttingFeminismObjectsFemaleVictimMalesContemporaryDominantOppressorsParanoidSpun Author:Camille Paglia
“The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.” ArtFormArtistIndividualCommonCreativitySubjectsPositionObjectsTransformationMalesIndividualityProducersDeniedRepresentationBizarreWoman ArtistConfounding Book:Women, Art, and Society Source: Women, Art, and Society
“Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity.” PeopleIdeasDesireHumanityObjectsComplexesMalesSexualityPornography Author:Marielle Heller
“Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine, feminine, and neuter. So if you have a genitive present, there's room for everybody to fit in. I just did a project in Vienna about rock, paper, scissor; you change the gender and it simply changes the whole thing. Rock is no longer a male. It doesn't function the same way.” IfsWayMeanWholeLanguageRoomsRocksObjectsFitPaperProjectsFunctionMalesGenderFeminineMasculineVienna Author:Lawrence Weiner
“Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character is probably the sex object. I think those stereotypes have been reproduced over and over again. It also changes our expectations when it comes to a situation like this in real life.” ThinkingLooksHas BeensRealCharacterSexSituationObjectsHeroExpectationsFemaleMalesReal LifeCinemaStereotypeFemale Characters Author:Ruben Ostlund
“The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.” MenWorldPersonsShowsBrainDarknessFateObjectsFemaleRootsMalesAffairCastsDetailsCellsIdiotGreekObsessedDefectsMoonlightPrivate LifeOutlinesIdiocyLunacyPublic Affairs Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia