Joanna Krupa Quotes

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.