Quotes Tagged "sexism"

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason for locking up from us all the avenues of knowledge, is the fear of our excelling them in it. (...) Had we the same advantages of study allowed us which the Men have, there is no room to doubt but we should at least keep pace with them in the sciences, and every useful knowledge. It can only then be a mean dastardly jealousy in them to exclude us from those advantages, in which we have so natural a right to emulate them.

Feminist Gloria Steinem has called research on sex differences “anti-American.” She says, “It is what is keeping us down.” According to Gloria Allred, such research simply should not be done. “This is harmful and dangerous to our daughters’ lives, to our mothers’ lives, and I am very angry about it.” Feminist critics have a term for neurologists who study sex differences: “neurosexists.

Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.

If you consider a woman less pure after you’ve touched her maybe you should take a looks at your hands.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn’t make her deputy prime minister because she was a woman.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.