“Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect.”
Abby Stein (1991) Trans activist, speaker, and educator
2017
Twitter.com (5 March 2019) https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/1102999636573249536 <br class="br">2019
“Society expects trans women to be perfect the way they expect all women to be perfect.”
Abby Stein (1991) Trans activist, speaker, and educator
2017
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946) American feminist and legal activist
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy" (1989) Ethics, Vol. 99, No. 2 pp. 314-346
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
“Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.”
Ann Coulter (1961) author, political commentator
The Cornell Review (1984), reported in Time (April 2005) and in Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter (2006) by Joe Maguire, p. 59.
1980s-90s
“How many, how omnipotent are the interests which engage men to break the mental chains of women!”
Frances Wright (1795–1852) American activist
Lecture II: Of Free Inquiry, considered as a Means for obtaining Just Knowledge
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
Context: How many, how omnipotent are the interests which engage men to break the mental chains of women! How many, how dear are the interests which engage them to exalt rather than lower their condition, to multiply their solid acquirements, to respect their liberties, to make them their equals, to wish them even their superiors! Let them inquire into these things. Let them examine the relation in which the two sexes stand, and ever must stand, to each other. Let them perceive that, mutually dependent, they must ever be giving and receiving, or they must be losing — receiving or losing in knowledge, in virtue, in enjoyment. Let them perceive how immense the loss, or how immense the gain. Let them not imagine that they know aught of the delights which intercourse with the other sex can give, until they have felt the sympathy of mind with mind, and heart with heart; until they bring into that intercourse every affection, every talent, every confidence, every refinement, every respect. Until power is annihilated on one side, fear and obedience on the other, and both restored to the birthright — equality. Let none think that affection can reign without it; or friendship or esteem. Jealousies, envyings, suspicions, reserves, deceptions — these are the fruits of inequality.
“Problem-posing education affirms men and women as beings in the process of becoming.”
Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
Pedagogia do oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) (1968, English trans. 1970)