Ashly Burch Quotes

I don't play with female gamers.

My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

I was like, 'I want us to stop using that term. I'm not a 'girl gamer.' I'm just a gamer.' The reasons I love gaming are the same reasons everyone loves gaming.

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

I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.

The truth is that both groups want to be noticed. Yet we view a man's desire for attention as a natural instinct; with a woman, we label her a narcissist.

Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.

There was really quite a remarkable level of sexism on newspapers when I started.

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

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

Men never get free from morality, only women.