{"quotes":[{"text":"Dissociation from the body and emotions – numbness – is a basic requirement of the male ideal. Hardy and Hough point out that the patriarchal culture’s influence is so strong on this point that it interferes with men ever recognizing that pain is a normal indicator of a problem. And as the pain or discomfort increases, men are forced to choose between two problematic alternatives:If I admit I’m sick then I must do something about it. That may entail seeing a doctor which implies I’m weak, not in control of myself, not tough enough.However, if I don’t get help, I’ll get sicker and more vulnerable, really helpless.","author":"Mary Crocker Cook","tags":["dissociation","gender-role","gender-roles","men","patriarchy"],"id":5156,"author_id":"Mary+Crocker+Cook"},{"text":"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["bullying","degradation","dehumanization","feminism","gender-roles","hate","insults","men","misogyny","women"],"id":16779,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"text":"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.","author":"Robert Louis Stevenson","tags":["feminism","gender-differences","gender-performance","gender-roles"],"id":18610,"author_id":"Robert+Louis+Stevenson"},{"text":"As for the boys...'vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.","author":"Martha Stout","tags":["gender-roles","psychology"],"id":19325,"author_id":"Martha+Stout"},{"text":"They were happier now than they would ever be again. A tenpenny tea set made Cam happy for days. She heard them stamping and crowing on the floor above her head the moment they woke. They came bustling along the passage. Then the door sprang open and in they came, fresh as roses, staring, wide awake, as if this coming into the dining-room after was a positive event to them, and so on, with one thing after another, all day long, until she went up to say good-night to them, and found them netted in their cots like birds among cherries and raspberries, still making up stories about some little bit of rubbish-–something they heard, something they had picked up in the garden. They had all their little treasures. . . And so she went down and said to her husband, Why must they grow up and lose it all? Never will they be so happy again. And he was angry. Why take such a gloomy view of life? He said. It is not sensible. For it was odd; and he believed it to be true; that with all his gloom and desperation he was happier, more hopeful on the whole, than she was. Less exposed to human worries––perhaps that was it. He had always his work to fall back on.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["childhood","gender-roles","parenthood"],"id":19687,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["equality","gender-roles","marrigae","men","power","society","strength","together","unity","women"],"id":23540,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["enlightenment","gender-roles","ignorance","knowledge","stupidity"],"id":39797,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.","author":"Virginia Petrucci","tags":["beauty","body-image","choice","feminism","feminist","gender","gender-roles","ideals","society","sociology","women"],"id":40767,"author_id":"Virginia+Petrucci"},{"text":"I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.","author":"Katharine Hepburn","tags":["gender-roles","independence","self-reliance"],"id":44871,"author_id":"Katharine+Hepburn"},{"text":"Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.","author":"Samantha Hunt","tags":["gender","gender-roles","quiet","women"],"id":48237,"author_id":"Samantha+Hunt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":107,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}