Words matter. These are the best Mocking Quotes from famous people such as Julie Burchill, Marian Keyes, Paul F. Tompkins, Randy Rainbow, Curtis Sittenfeld, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.
Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they’re never mocked, whereas it’s easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we’re used to it.
When the task is mocking pop culture, it’s easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to feel like this route was completely pointless. Talking about silly, inconsequential stuff doesn’t mean you can’t put some effort into it.
I’m a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I’m mocking. But at the end of the day, I’m the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That’s satire.
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person – not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way – I don’t think that’s exploitive.
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
Now that neural nets work, industry and government have started calling neural nets AI. And the people in AI who spent all their life mocking neural nets and saying they’d never do anything are now happy to call them AI and try and get some of the money.
Wishful thinking won’t make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin’s worldview won’t make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.
I would never blame an actor for taking on a role. The only time that I think I have to question why someone’s doing something is when they’re either mocking or trivializing the events that occurred or making it more sensational than it was.
If you’re mocking anyone, make sure it’s those at the top of the food chain, not the bottom.
Most of those mocking us and our works night after night have not reached the point of suggesting we are going to use those weapons. They are pretty useless right now.
I’m really happy that people understand that man-repelling is a good thing. I was afraid people would think I was mocking fashion, and it’s like, ‘No, I swear, I’m wearing feathered sleeves as I write this!’
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
I had several different bosses during the early years of ‘Dilbert.’ They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.
The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in ‘City Boy,’ the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the ‘New York Review of Books,’ and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
A colleague once nicknamed me – half mocking – the ‘magical stranger’ because I get people to tell me things.