Joss Whedon Quotes

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

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.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

People criticize my blog and call me and other women emotional which I guess is why men so often get into bar fights.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Hip hop is usually a bunch of guys talking to a bunch of guys, in my experience. It's homosocial, not homosexual, in that it's almost always all one gender in a room where it's being created. That locker-room environment has an impact on the language. I think the music suffers 'cause it allows an almost cartoonish level of misogyny.

I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.

I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.