What quote would sum up what you have learned about gender in 2007?
Posted by admin in Finance Friday, 10 December 2010 12:35 25 Comments
I have learned a lot on GWS. When I first got on, I was on the defensive because of all the female bashing, but later became more balanced, I think.
My quote for 2007: “To be somebody, a woman doesn’t have to be more like a man, but has to be more of a woman.”
Having her own identity as a woman is crucial in my book. This means gender beautifully matters.
Aww Kim P, thank you! Happy New Year to you too!
“woman. Can’t live with them, can’t kill them”
women have became stronger and men dont like it
we have nothing to fear except fear(mcheal jackson) itself. 2007, strange year, w/ the brittney thang, and britney’s sister, what a role model!
“show me a man whool jump out off an airplane and ill show a man whool fight “
Trust, but verify.
In the workplace
As a friend
As a mentor
On a deserted island
I’ll take a man over a woman any day.
I don’t learn from platitudes they are usually too simplistic for real life.
Now and forever more, we are different.
I’ve learned that some of the generalisations I used to make about men being less emotional than women were wayyyy off, hehe.
Have met some wonderful people, men who are very emotional, expressive and openly caring, and women who are quite rational, strong-minded and clever, and of course, vice versa.
But where I thought the majority was a certain way, I now think that we are all emotional and rational creatures, in different moments we apply one or the other, according to personal choices.
I like your quote, and for me it would be:
“I am an individual first and a woman second.”
Happy New Year, beautiful.
This isn’t something I so much as learned–but it is a quote I found over the summer and I love–
“Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” -Alice Paul
I wish more people viewed the world like this.
I’ve learned that I knew more than I thought I did, and it’s a lot more than a lot of other people know, LOL
I’ve heard so many interesting and thought provoking comments on GWS, it would be hard to choose just one. I’ve clarified and developed my own ideas and learned a lot about myself and the way I see the world. Thank you, everyone
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Edit: may I change my answer? I just remembered this:
Those who talk do not know. Those who know are not talking.
“Lioness and The Mrs. are the only two females that don’t show hints of (or even blatant) sexism.” =D
I really haven’t learned much. The main problem I see here is an extreme lack of communication, and it revolves around pride and/or the need to be politically correct.
Too many answers are just “Men/Women do it too!” Yeah it’s true, but it doesn’t really answer the question as to why the specified gender does. Maybe the reason men do it is different from why women do. Specifying one gender doesn’t necessarily imply the opposite gender is innocent… of course there are exceptions! But people are cynical and defensive, always assuming the worst.
We point the finger at each other before we look at ourselves. The majority of us are seemingly unable of objectively answering a question.
“Why do I come here again?”
Never get married, if things go wrong it’s the guy who gets screwed.
i have to agree with Johno…coming on here, has given me more reasons to stay single.
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
!!
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This is very personal. I did something I never thought I could do and I did it afraid. And lo, It didn’t kill me. A woman doesn’t need a man to survive, though a sweet man makes life more of a just dessert.
C.
Lioness before I even answer your question I have to tell you you are very profound, I love your quote and I’m going to keep it. I have a 14 yr. old niece I’m going to tell her about your quote. A couple of year’s ago she told me she wants to be a nurse, it just so happens Nov.’07 she told me she know wants to be a Pediatrician. So, I want to keep her encouraged in the meantime, your quote is very enpowering. The quote I’m going to say seems so lame and cliche’ compared to yours but her it goes “Sister’s Are Doing It for Themselves”. Can you give a P.S. add. det. I would like to know what GWS stands for. Intelligent Lady have a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“To be somebody, a woman doesn’t have to be more like a man, and a man doesn’t have to be more like a woman, but both have to be more of themselves.”
Essentially, men and women should have the right to be whatever they want to be without worrying about being “unmanly” or “unfeminine.”
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Jung, Carl (this is my quote for woman)
“A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”
Byrne, Robert (this is my quote for men)
The more I come in here, the more I learn how different men and women really are. Most people parrot ideas and concepts that someone before them had theorized by their own inspirations and actual thought. What if the inspired were parrots as well?
All this while the feminists are pork barreling for their anti-male agendas for the sake of keeping men as common men! Men, Thomas Paine says that “The object contended for, ought always to bear some just proportion to the expense” ~ (in his book “Common Sense”)… and the just proportion has reached and breached that of the expense for far too long. I will spare you any parabolical stories to illustrate my point, as we know what we are up against. The feminists are void of anything remotely close to resembling the consideration in regards to Pareto Optimality, for the sake of their own affairs. The Opulence at men’s expense must stop! The Usurpation of men’s compassion and uplifting must stop! And can only these iniquities we, as the inherently damned in our recent society, are accustomed to, be stopped with our own actions and discordance. And I now leave you with this last QUOTE or consideration, and that is ‘How much is your manhood worth and will you continue to allow our recent society take it from you for today’s pennies on the perpetual dollar’?
Okay, I actually only meant the first 3 sentences. Happy New Year everyone.
I just read an article in my younger sisters teen magizine, Cosmo Girl I think, I was sick and had nothing to do so I picked up the magazine, and while flipping through it I ran across an article about Feminism…
I had to read it.
I am not a feminist, and the article apauled me.
It said over and over that women and men are exactly the same, and it even dared say women CAN’T CHOOSE whether to work or stay home. It said the age old “feminism means women can choose…” was WRONG. And that even happily married women whose husbands make enough money, who WANT TO STAY HOME, SHOULD WORK.
It used scare tactics to get this point across.
Men and women are VASTLY DIFFERENT.
Anatomy for one…
We are just different.
My friends and I wonder often where ANY good men have gone, they turned into femenists, I told her…
Men now want to mary a women who will support them… that makes me laugh.
My quote, which discustes me, is one from the article; a young man said “I want to mary a carreer driven women who will make a lot of money.”
I think the tides have sufficiently changed in this world.
Your quote is beautiful, I love it, my mother said to me recently “a real man will not hate a woman for trying to be a good women, it’s when she tries to be a man, that he may get worried.”
Men and women are different, but different is good.
Without women, there would be no more men, without men, there would be no more women.
We have different abilities (also different for each individual) and without each other we are nowhere.
We COMPLETMENT and COMPLETE each other.
We are just as important, (equaly important) but not just the same.
Sorry, that was long…
- Jess
“A man can be tender without being a wuss.”
and
“A woman can stand up for what she believes and not be a bitch.”
honestly? not a thing i didnt already know.
My best friend is one of the nicest women I know. Strong but not strident. Friendly but not a walkover. Super intelligent without being condescending.
And she used to be a man.