Both men and women experience pressure to conform to social standards of attractiveness. Men to look strong and be tough, women to look pretty and soft. Men to be masculine, women to be feminine. Men get judged for being "too feminine", women get criticized for being "too masculine". Gender policing affects us all.
Miya Yamanouchi
Related I definitely think men prefer women more undone and natural than butch and masculine. They prefer a ... MARIE HELVIN What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w... SUSAN SONTAG Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. JOHN BERGER I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m... GLORIA STEINEM Men and women aren't too dissimilar. CHRIS EVANS Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be stron... EMMA WATSON The masculine grows by challenge but the feminine grows by praise DAVID DEIDA Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine cultur... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately,... NAZANIN BONIADI Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD You're not allowed to raise boys who reject all things feminine, then get upset when they become men... DARNELL LAMONT WALKER Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, tho... BETTE DAVIS If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious ALPHONSE KARR How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of... EMMELINE PANKHURST Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it EMMELINE PANKHURST I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side. LENNY KRAVITZ Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind. KAY INGRAM One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the... SHERWOOD ANDERSON I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in th... SHERYL SANDBERG If a woman tells a man the god favor him, everybody says she's far-minded.' The broom halted mid-swe... REBECCA BARNHOUSE I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be... ADAM CLAYTON POWELL III Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be acc... MILO YIANNOPOULOS In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than s... ALANIS MORISSETTE The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment CLARE SHORT Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to ... HANNA ROSIN When women get too skinny, like Teri Hatcher, it will show on your face and age you. I think women l... TERI HATCHER For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and f... BERTRAND RUSSELL For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and fem... BERTRAND RUSSELL Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way ... EMILY MAGUIRE The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of... PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. ... JOSH HARTNETT Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a b... LARRY MILLER All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before. MIKE LESTER Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible MARGARET MEAD Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal ELIZABETH CADY STANTON I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men GEORGE ELIOT He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A ... TORI AMOS In the faces of men and women I see God WALT WHITMAN Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior MARILYN FRENCH I'm not denying the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men GEORGE ELIOT Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies FRANK GELETT BURGESS Liberalism has produced women that are driven like men to succeed and men that succeed in being driv... DANIEL BRYANT GATES Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about. CATE BLANCHETT To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Good men don't hit women. Good men only hit the women who want to be hit. TIFFANY REISZ To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land wher... MARGARET MITCHELL For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men ... MILAN KUNDERA Almost no men like to be addressed as BOY by any women; but, most of the women love to be recognized... ANUJ SOMANY When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it &... WARREN FARRELL The Net used to be 50 percent men and 50 percent men pretending to be women, MARC ANDREESSEN I think divorce is equally painful for both men and women, but it affects women in different ways. L... DONNA FERBER Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. JACKIE MASON Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other ... BAUDELAIRE I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose ... MARIE CORELLI I married beneath me. All women do. CHER For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatur... COTY PERFUME AD There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu... STEPHEN STILLS Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ANONYMOUS Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman! HONORE DE BALZAC My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ... LENNY BRUCE Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11]. BIBLE If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. CHEKHOV Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can be... ANONYMOUS In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. JOHNNY CARSON Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ANONYMOUS Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what y... ANONYMOUS Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... ANONYMOUS Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ANONYMOUS It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ANONYMOUS He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. ANONYMOUS All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ANONYMOUS A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do yo... ANONYMOUS A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. ANONYMOUS Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ANONYMOUS Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...b... ANONYMOUS Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her o... ANONYMOUS Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family d... ANONYMOUS In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles sugg... ROBERT BRIFFAULT Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother... ENGLISH PROVERB An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ... HONORE DE BALZAC If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. LENNY BRUCE Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. LIN YĆ¼-TANG I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. LADY NANCY ASTOR Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. S. T. COLERIDGE Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualiti... JOAN BAEZ Women like silent men. They think they're listening. MARCEL ARCHARD My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses..
wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ... JOHN C LEHMAN Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. JIM BACKUS She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. EDMUND BURKE If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing... MARY FRANCES BERRY
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