Paul Gilbert Quotes

When I was a young girl I had to deal with people calling me weird and strange because I spent so much time around boys playing football.

When I was at school, you couldn't draw and be into football, too. If you were into art, then you were seen as an absolute pansy, and there was no way you'd be admitted to the guys' world of football.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender - instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.