The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody’s wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

I have a rule of thumb that allows me to judge, when times is pressing and one needs to make a snap judgment, whether or not some sexist bullshit is afoot. Obviously, it’s not 100%...

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my ‘race,’ unless I was permitted to put ‘human.’ The form had to be completed under...

I’ve always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It’s hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if felt...

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they’d conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

Maybe she’s preemptively getting her karmic backlash for that, but there’s something icky about all this. Yes, the “hello, boys” chest like two friendly chinchillas, Bigfoot ball stomper Lara Croft was oversexualized, but this is...

What is a woman’s place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin’s words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to...

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being “false,” “untrue,” yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and even about the reader, than can be found in non-fiction.

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know I am smart, I know I am kind and funny, and I know...

Dear Men Everywhere,Please don’t think that being a feminist means we hate you or don’t need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn’t live without you! …We are just on a mission to be treated...

Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston’s in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our...

That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that...

The chowdry, or burqa — the Saudi, North African, and Central Asian version of the head, face, and body shroud — is a sensory deprivation isolation chamber. It is claustrophobic, may lead to anxiety and...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself...

gays are promiscuous,” certain races are frigid or hung, and certain sex acts are indulgent, effeminate, or immoral. Other distortions clearly function as tools of organizations or of religious or political figures to shape public...

It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of ‘God’s Plan’ or the greater good...

Menus are sexist. I prefer the term womenu.

Six men control almost all the media in the United States–book publishing, magazines, television, movie studios, newspapers, and radio. They are not friendly toward feminism, which has almost disappeared from the surface of our society....

From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the corners of her mouth, left one, right one;...

You’re writing a book about that? Wow, what fun!”Yes, it was fun, but it was also serious history. Pretty women do not fit into what we have come to think of as serious history. Real...

You realize of course that if it were the other way round there would be a law, there would be an actual law: John versus Jen in the high court. And John would put it...

I have a rule for working out if the root problem of something is, in fact, sexism. And it is this: asking ‘Are the boys doing it? Are the boys having to worry about this...

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of my inferiority. This gradual anger over one humiliation after another may be...

Høibro kunde ikke forstå at denne tørre fremskridtskvinde med kort hår blandet sig i slike spørsmål som ægteskapet, hun stod i hans forestilling som en art hanmenneske i skjørter, et væsen av det tredje kjøn;...

It was Freud’s ambition to discover the cause of hysteria, the archetypal female neurosis of his time. In his early investigations, he gained the trust and confidence of many women, who revealed their troubles to...

Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.

He’d always liked women who’d talk back to him just a little bit. “Girls with balls” were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of...

Don’t you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

But I had to think to myself that this was normal, because that was the attitude. I was 19 when I went to see my doctor and I was told it was all in the...

When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was even blacker. It was a slick, oily blackness that glowed and reflected the...

The Crack-Up” or Georges Bataille in Guilty for being drunken and totally wading in their own pathos, but Jean Rhys is too much of a victim.

There is a need for promoting women’s sexual agency in today’s society, because if it wasn’t an issue, terms such as ‘female sexual empowerment’ would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this...

She is a good girl,” Park said. “You don’t even know her.” His dad was standing, pushing Park toward the door. “Go,” he said sternly. “Go play basketball or something.””Good girls don’t dress like boys,”...

Life for both sexes – and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement – is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures...

Encountering gender apartheid and waged slavery shook me to my roots more than half a century ago in Afghanistan. Oh, the women of Afghanistan, the women of the Muslim world. I was no feminist —...

The object, the woman, goes out into the world formed as men have formed her to be used as men wish to use her. She is then a provocation. The object provokes its use. It...

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

Unfortunately Women these days, complain A LOT about “wanting” to be equal to men, and insist that they “are” equal to men. However, when it comes to paying the check at the restaurant, paying for...

Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

I don’t think male gamers are more or less sexist than non-gamers. Sexism is unfortunately still a large problem in our culture overall. It is not unique to gaming. Have a pretty girl walk by...

The scope of the transgender empire may be reaching its peak, as transcriticism is increasing at a fast pace both within activist feminism and from wives and regretters. There is an increasing groundswell of criticism...

A postsexist environment is not something that animal liberationists need passively await, in the meantime deferring to present sexism in the manner of our presentation.

What are you so angry about?” my mother had asked me the last time I had gone home to visit.Why aren’t you more angry, I had wanted to ask her. But I couldn’t talk to...

Justice DeniedThousands of women, probably moreI cannot reach them behind justice doorsMany stay silent, barred just like me.Haunted by demons, faces unseen.Still by the hundreds, they continue to serveDuty and country, active and reserve.Thankless, forgotten...

Kvinden var menneske, den ene halvdel av menneskeheten, men mandfolk det var nu kvinden ikke!