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“Women’s liberation has often been portrayed as a movement intent on encroaching upon or taking power and privilege away from men, as though in some dismal zero-sum game, only one gender at a time could be free and powerful.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women. For X please insert words like “anger,” “ambition,” “loudness,” “stubbornness,” “coldness,” “ruthlessness.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“Women who self-promote are considered more competent than those who don’t, but commanding that respect comes at a steep price: people don’t like them.”
― That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together
― That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together
“A bigger hurdle, once we drill down into it, is the basic assumption that underlies the pipeline theory: that we are fair in the first place.”
― That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together
― That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together
“Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they seem them as relational rather than as individual equal humans. Men who, when discussing rape, will always say something like 'if it were my daughter or wife or sister.' Yet such men do not need to imagine a male victim of crime as a brother or son in order to feel empathy.”
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
― Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
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