Words matter. These are the best Sexism Quotes from famous people such as Lynda Carter, Miranda Hart, Alex Morgan, Nushrat Bharucha, Sarah McBride, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.
I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there’ll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it’s going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.
I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I’m sure I will a lot more.
Today, nobody has a problem with a women working, but every woman invariably faces casual sexism at work.
Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they’re all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth – the sex we are assigned – should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.
Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House.
Sexism definitely exists – you see that in all walks of life.
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn’t sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.
Homophobia hurts our league. Racism hurts it. Sexism hurts it.
Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.
There’s something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There’s definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you’re afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.
I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.
Black women’s intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes – sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps – by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
Neck-down comedy was no longer valid after the 1980s alternative comedy revolution. Everything became about the cerebral. And with that came positive things – it helped get rid of some of the sexism and homophobia – but it also meant a lot of physical comedy was lost.
As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face – sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.
Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed – sexism is real.
There is so much frustration in the heterosexual male community manifesting in different ways, whether it be aggression or sexism or racism. I’m not saying all heterosexual men are that way, but you do see a lot of it.
Don’t make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don’t bring it on stage; it’s not funny.
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country – be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
Despite girls’ sparkling resumes – including rates of college enrollment and high school grades that outstrip boys – sexism is a barrier that still leaves girls ambivalent about power. Opening doors has not amounted to ambition to lead for many of them, even those with options, networks, and resources.
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past – a past of sexism, of misogyny.
You know, my mum’s always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
You don’t realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It’s just allowed to be there, and that’s not acceptable anymore. And I think it’s really important to be very vocal.
Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I’ve faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
I’d like to change the world. Eradicate poverty, racism, and sexism… all the usual things.
Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.
While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
The basic premise of math is about efficiency. And when you’ve got racism, sexism, and bigotry, that’s just standing in the way of efficiency in our own progress.
If you’re going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?
The depressing reality is that campaigns like the Everyday Sexism Project would not need to exist were casual sexism not so startlingly commonplace.
I always laugh when I read about sexism cases in the newspaper.
I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don’t want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don’t wake up in the morning and think, ‘I am a woman in tech.’ I just go to work, and my work is in technology.
What happens to boys in tech is in many ways different than what happens to girls in tech. it’s not that they’re facing sexism per se: it’s that they don’t think it’s cool. So I think we really have to change the way we present technology.
I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I’ve learned through YouTube, if it’s not race, it will be sexism, if it’s not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.
Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I’m watching ‘Night of the Living Dead Part Two’ all day, every day.
Feminism isn’t simply about being a woman in a position of power. It’s battling systemic inequities; it’s a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
I certainly think sometimes when it comes to sexism, some Sky presenters need to look at themselves.
I’ve experienced a lot of sexism in football.
Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
I knew Snoop Dog didn’t start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn’t start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn’t start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.
It’s Russia. It’s a patriarchal society. That’s a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it’s widespread.
In politics, I am facing a lot of structural sexism.
In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it’s far harder to determine whether they’re actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.
I’m not sexist in any way – sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
If anyone says they haven’t experienced sexism then I don’t know what life they’ve lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don’t think it’s a media thing.
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
Up until recently, I’ve said, ‘I don’t notice the sexism in the industry.’
Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.
I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we’re having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we’re having as a culture is we thought we’d solved sexism and racism, and we’re realizing more and more that we haven’t.
Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I’m not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.
The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from ‘Jersey Shore.’ The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.
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