Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured. (...)
Therefore, since it is necessary to call on such skill, ingenuity, and effort in order to seduce a woman, whether of high or humble birth, the logical conclusion to draw is that women are by no means as fickle as some men claim, or as easily influenced in their behaviour. And if anyone tells me that books are full of women like these, it is this very reply, frequently given, which causes me to complain. My response is that women did not write these books nor include the material which attacks them and their morals. Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. But if women had written these books, I know full well the subject would have been handled differently. They know that they stand wrongfully accused, and that the cake has not been divided up equally, for the strongest take the lion's share, and the one who does the sharing out keeps the biggest portion for himself.
Tags: perception books gender injustice men women morality prejudice misogyny hypocrisy inequality slander stereotypes deceit double-standards clichés unfairness seduction social-norms fickleness suppression misrepresentation defenselessness received-opinion one-sidedness
Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them.
Christine de PizanTags: individuality truth gender harm men women morality water prejudice danger misogyny hypocrisy foolishness argument fire stereotypes double-standards clichés perceptions social-norms conduct misrepresentation abuse generalizations damage one-sidedness
People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change," says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere.
Sandy FussellTags: prejudice discrimination bigotry
A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?
Cameron ConawayTags: prejudice
But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician? Is he worse than the manufacturer who set up belated foundations with the money he made by handing bombs and guns to suicidal nationalists? Is he worse than the distiller who gave bastardized grain juice to stultify further the brains of those who, sober, were incapable of progressive thought? (Nay, I apologize for this calumny; I nip the brew that feeds me.) Is he worse, then, than the publisher who filled ubiquitous racks with lust and death wishes? Really, no, search your soul, lovie--is the vampire so bad?
Richard MathesonTags: politics society prejudice horror government vampire norms
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
Mercedes LackeyTags: truth fanaticism religion fantasy prejudice
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
Criss JamiTags: fear love compassion prejudice understanding comprehension listening attention discernment bias judgmentality
Tags: prejudice stereotypes racism prejudices
Actually, this is a poem my father once showed me, a long time ago. It has been bastardized many times, in many ways, but this is the original:
The Cold Within
Six men trapped by happenstance,
in bleak and bitter cold
Each possessed a stick of wood,
or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of logs,
the first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire,
he noticed one was black.
One man looking cross the way,
saw one not of his church
And could not bring himself to give
the fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes,
he gave his coat a hitch
Why should his log be put to use
to warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
from the lazy, shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge
as the fire passed from his sight,
For all he saw in his stick of wood
was a chance to spite the white.
And the last man of this forlorn group
did naught except for gain,
Giving only to those who gave,
was how he played the game
The logs held tight, in death's still
hands,
was proof of human sin
They didn't die from the cold without,
they died from the cold within.
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: politics truth philosophy prejudice enlightenment prejudices narrow-mindedness convenience closed-mindedness
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