Gender Discussion Quotes

We often run the risk, when discussing women empowerment, to think that this is about women talking about women with other women, but this is not the point.

It's OK to be talking to one another about what it means to be transgender. We don't have to shield everyone from the existence of people like me.

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

The most important thing we're doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.

My whole identity is not gender. My whole identity is not talking about gender. There are so many other things in my life that are fulfilling that I like to think about too.

I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.