Men have worked as essentially shop keepers and store clerks for a lot longer than they have worked on assembly lines. There have been waiters forever. Lawyers are the world's second oldest profession. Teaching was a male-only profession for centuries. The idea that men are and ought to be unreflective, grunting, two-fisted louts is a class thing, not a gender thing, and it is imposed upon working class men by a system that needs them to be beasts of burden.
Lance MannionWhen, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose what she wishes to do, it’s not about liberating her, but about unclothing her. It becomes an act of humiliation and cultural imperialism. It’s not about the burqa. It’s about the coercion. Coercing a woman out of a burqa is as bad as coercing her into one. Viewing gender in this way, shorn of social, political and economic context, makes it an issue of identity, a battle of props and costumes. It is what allowed the US government to use western feminist groups as moral cover when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Afghan women were (and are) in terrible trouble under the Taliban. But dropping daisy-cutters on them was not going to solve their problems.
Arundhati RoyTag: gender women feminism islam france
Women are extraordinary creatures!
Roman PayneTag: style love gender girls woman women fashion girl gender-stereotypes extraordinary womanhood gender-equality roman creatures payne gender-identity extraordinary-women moda mode
Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.
Kate BornsteinTag: gender drag drag-queen
We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Kate BornsteinTag: politics gender sex queer trans
When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield
Kate BornsteinTag: gender prejudice queer performance
Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system
Haruki MurakamiTag: gender psychology reproduction
Grammar is politics by other means.
Donna J. HarawayTag: politics gender feminism grammar linguistics
I quit because I was good, and when you’re good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.’
‘Of what?’
‘Of what part of yourself you didn’t know you were selling.
Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.
James BaldwinTag: truth gender women gender-roles women-s-strength women-and-men
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