Males quotes
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"Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure."
"Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait."
"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
"But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either."
"Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there."
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"If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine."
"The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with."
"In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny to tell Pooky that they belong to the same tribe, while among the good old boys it serves the cause of masculine dominance by identifying Bear and Wrecker as Alpha males."
"My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate."
"For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes."
"Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency."
"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."
"Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions."
"There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society."
"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
"You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that."
"The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me--that is Michael Jackson."
"We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women."
"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."
"It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays."
"Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males."
"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
"The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental."
