“[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.” ThinkingMenLastsPowerfulFieldsPositionMalesHillsWorkplaceCapitolPlantationsCapitol Hill Author:Andrea Mitchell
“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
“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.” CulturePositionDramaSucceedFemaleAssumingMalesAncientConstructs Author:John Maus
“It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.” MenWantHardFilmGirlSexPositionDirectEnglandMalesPreservesPushingRoughEquipmentFilm Set Author:Colin Firth
“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.” YearsFirstsMadeEvilProcessBoysDogCreationPositionLetting GoFemaleGardenDecidedDoctorsRoseMalesCreatorLegendsAdamDoctor WhoPhantomsRibsPretextEjaculation Author:William S. Burroughs
“For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.” MenWantWould BeAbleRolesPositionSonBedModelsMeetingsMalesDespiteRole ModelsBe A ManMale Role Models Author:Kristina Schroder
“On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.” IfsMightMovingPoliticalCoursesGamesWhiteNumbersEconomyFrontsPositionIncreaseMalesChairsZeroZero Sum Game Author:Jesse Jackson
“A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.” MenArtBlackPositionGeniusMalesOriginalityDesperationGreat ArtAfrosPariahs Author:Ishmael Reed