Sexist Quotes - Page 6

• I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Hate, Levels, Stranger

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Well, the film industry is completely sexist and completely class-biased. It's not something I get on the ground level, it's more from financiers and producers and distributors. It's a way of dealing with you that is essentially patronising: I know better than you.

  Lynne Ramsay

  Class, Way, Levels

  "Lynne Ramsay: 'Just talk to me straight'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I wouldn't want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that's sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you're smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Ideas, Racist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: 'There Is Always a Backlash'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Country, Racist, Okay

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• You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, "You're being such a prima donna," meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crazy, Order, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

  Boots Riley

  Song, Writing, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not that appealing when something sexist happens to you. But if you're strong enough, and you can push that aside and keep your goal in mind and remember that you're doing your job - whatever that is, whether it's a producer or an artist or a mastering engineer - because you love it, then all that stuff falls by the wayside.

  Emily Lazar

  Strong, Jobs, Fall

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Community, Groups

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I assure you he died screaming like a girl. (Daimon) Oh, I am so offended by that. What is the deal with that sexist statement? I’m a female and I don’t scream. But I’ve killed many a male Daimon who did. (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Males, Female

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Views, Guy, Tolerance

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• I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

  Rachel Cohn

  Girl, Appreciation, Sex

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.24, Egmont UK

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• Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

  Joanna Russ

  Class, Usual, Ordinary

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

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• Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

  Toni Morrison

  Ideas, Racism, Typical

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

  George Gilder

  Motivation, Community, Identity

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Language, Divine

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• The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way.

  James Finn Garner

  Girl, Stress, Riding

  "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (Little Red Riding Hood - A Politically Correct Fairy Tale)". Book by James Finn Garner, 1994.

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• Protesting against sexism doesn't mean saying that all men are actively sexist.

  Laura Bates

  Mean, Men, Sexism

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• The establishment and their media enablers will control over America through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, America, Media

  Source: time.com

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• I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be … but they are generally physically weaker. That's science.

  Robert Kirkman

  Military, Smart, Taken

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• American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Self, Pie

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness.

  Angela Davis

  Powerful, Feminist, Violence

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• To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in America, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him. To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Degrees, Racist

  "Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump harnessed anti-establishment anger" by Sam Levin, Zach Stafford, Scott Bixby, Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2016.

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• Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.

  Janice Raymond

  Sex, Suffering, Levels

  Source: transadvocate.com

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