#sexism

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Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography.


Andrea Dworkin


#men #pornography #sexism #sexualization #violence

I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment, whether or not some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously, it’s not 100% infallible but by and large it definitely points you in the right direction and it's asking this question; are the men doing it? Are the men worrying about this as well? Is this taking up the men’s time? Are the men told not to do this, as it's letting the side down? Are the men having to write bloody books about this exasperating retarded, time-wasting, bullshit? Is this making Jeremy Clarkson feel insecure? Almost always the answer is no. The boys are not being told they have to be a certain way, they are just getting on with stuff.


Caitlin Moran


#jeremy-clarckson #misogyny #patriarchy #sexism #men

Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like one of them?" Her voice rose, challenging and accusatory. "Them," she said again. "Where women aren't human, aren't people, just things--objects. Them." She jabbed a thumb toward the rear window, where surely one of the Doll Maker's men followed unseen. "Oh, they'll show you a real man. They'll turn you into a real woman. They'll fuck you hard, you'll want it, but what you want never actually matters because everything is about their own ego. Them." Neeva stopped for air; a long, greedy inhale. "Why?" she said. "Why would you--a woman"--she spat out the word--"you who should know what it feels like to be called a cunt and a bitch and a whore just because you voiced an opinion, to be told you're fat or ugly as a way to make your argument worthless, that you're stuck-up, repressed, and in denial of your true feelings when you find them repulsive. Why would you be one of them? What's wrong with you?


Taylor Stevens


#human-trafficking #men #misogyny #modern-slavery #repression

You cant beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you dont even try to.


William Faulkner


#women #trouble

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.


Christopher Hitchens


#civil-rights-movement #ethnology #identity-politics #martin-luther-king-jr #perjury

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.


Kristin Hersh


#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.


Constance Baker Motley


#century #class #class warfare #goes #i

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.


Claude Pepper


#odious #racism #sexism

The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It's their problem. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window. I'll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.


Rosie Perez


#door #down #i #i see #knock