#stereotypes

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame? ↗

— Bruce Bawer

#gay #gay-rights #gay-stereotypes #humor #equality

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clichés #dignity #equality #fiction #gender

[Adultery] is as great a sin in the husband as in the wife, in fact more so; but ... it is not God's truth but male wickedness that holds men less guilty of the same sin. Men are less often caught or punished for adultery than women, not because they are less guilty but because they are more guilty -- and bolder and more cunning in passsing off their sin, while they practically all support each other in it. It is men who are witnesses, judges, and enforcers of punishment against adultery in women. And because they are deeply guilty of it themselves, they are more or less unanimous in their efforts to back up their promiscuity. ↗

— Anonymous

#clichés #double-standards #fidelity #gender #hypocrisy

Quaint and picturesque, though I didn't voice my opinion out loud. Keirran and Annwyl were faeries, and Kenzie was a girl, so it was okay for them to notice such things. as a card-carrying guy club, I wasn't going to comment on the floral arrangements. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#humor #men #stereotypes #humor

Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many subjects repressed, refracted, blinded as to their true sexuality, because they are unwilling to let go of a stereotype. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#life #stereotypes #life

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain. ↗

— Mako

#artist #been #capable #combat #course

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#believe #beyond #feel #gone #i

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#believe #century #challenge #challenging #doing

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. ↗

— Colin Powell

#approach #best #chase #dictates #fads

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#faster #like #looks #much #nature