“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsTwoChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGayYears AgoOppositesPrejudiceUnionsGenderTraditionalDefinedDenialLogicalRequirementsEssaysArbitraryGay MarriageRestrictionGay RightsExclusionPolygamyAutonomousTraditional MarriageIndividual Choice Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.” IfsWritingMeanCharacterUseSexInternetFemaleOppositesMalesGenderLinksSectionsWorkshopsAlgorithmsGeniesWriting Workshop Author:Max Barry
“As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.” MindLevelsVisionFeminismAnxietyConceptsOppositesRaisesIndividualityGenderUniquenessConformistConjuringAndrogynyUnisex Author:Gloria Steinem
“You wanna be counter-culture? You wanna be a total rebel? Get a job! You wanna be counter-culture, totally alternative, radical? Be a virgin until you get married...to a person of the opposite gender. And then stay married and pump out some kids and pay your taxes and read the Bible, you freak. You'll be just totally a rebel.” PersonsKidsJobsCulturePayTaxesMarriedOppositesGenderRadicalAlternativesRebelFreakVirginsPumpsCounter Culture Author:Mark Driscoll
“Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.” AbleSexOughtTestsOppositesGenderCompetence Book:Conversations with Julian Barnes Source: Conversations with Julian Barnes
“Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as a way of surviving and inventing someone to whom this doesn't happen. And so therefore, they invent within themselves different personalities who have life histories of their own. Many people invent an opposite gender personality as well.” PeopleWayWellsChildrenLongHas BeensDifferentHappensAbleTermPersonalityOppositesGenderLong TermSurvivingInventingVery Sad Author:Gloria Steinem
“If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.” IfsThinkingLooksMightStrongMorningClearImagineBedOppositesGenderLovelyClear Thinking Book:Outpost Source: Outpost