Top 1200 Gender Stereotypes Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

I'm big on being anti-stereotypical and fighting negative stereotypes.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

The scene at a certain time was definitely boys; those huge warehouses were kind of violent parties, even. I think people in your immediate community made a nightlife scene that actually did break down gender roles and were along different lines of identity that had to do with race and experience in the '90s, rather than gender.

Bangkok is one of those places where it's so rich and full of tradition, but they're so open to different people - different gender expressions and gender identities. As a gay man, I never once felt uncomfortable there. As a black man, I never once felt uncomfortable.

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.

I use every opportunity, whether on my radio show or on television, to break stereotypes.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

I have no problem breaking stereotypes. And proving people wrong - it's actually quite fun.

Breaking stereotypes and my own barriers is great fun, because that's what leads to growth.

'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

I'm not suggesting that all men are beautiful, vulnerable boys, but we all started out that way. What happened to us? How did we become monsters of feminist nightmares? The answer, of course, is that we underwent a careful and deliberate process of gender training, sometimes brutal, always dehumanizing, cutting away large chunks of ourselves. Little girls went through something similarly crippling. If the gender training was successful, we each ended up being half a person.

I am conscious of the community that I'm representing and don't play into stereotypes.

I don't make the stereotypes, I just see them.

I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to really be an ally, it's important that you recognize and embrace your own transgender nature. Really, I haven't met a single person who doesn't break some rule of gender. In other words, we will assimilate you. Resistance is futile.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

Every American in uniform, in the White House or at home - USA! USA! USA! - we must be a force for unity in America, for a vision that includes all of us. All of us. Every man and woman, every race, every ethnicity, every faith and creed, including the Americans who are our precious Muslims. And every gender and every gender orientation.

There is too much ideological conformity in gender studies. The true-believers fashion the theories, write the textbooks and teach the students. When journalists, policymakers, and legislators address topics such as the wage gap, gender and education, or women's health, they turn to these experts for enlightenment. For the most part, they peddle misinformation, victim politics, and sophistry. They claim that their teachings represent the academic consensus, but that is only because they have excluded all dissenters.

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

Stereotypes wouldn't be so bad if black people were nicer, in general.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

I feel like I'm here to bust those misconceptions and stereotypes of Muslim women.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

I do think that being a BAME actor does make it difficult to avoid stereotypes.

We have to destroy stereotypes in people's minds that Belarus can be isolated or taught a lesson.

Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day.

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

Yeah, I'm sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

My sole agenda is to constantly break stereotypes.

Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.

I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we want you to check the class and race at the door.' And you can't undo that braid of race, class, and gender: all three intersect with each other, so it's important for more education to be done about that.

I guess I blow all the stereotypes right out of the water.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.