[Note that some of the above slogans could also be used here.]
a) Ones that I especially like
Men can stop rape
Ask, listen, respect.
No sex without consent
Men get raped too
How do you know if a woman wants to have sex? Ask, Listen, Respect.
b) Other slogans — Also see general anti-violence slogans above
[The prefix “Men:
“ would be unnecessary eg in a men’s anti-violence rally.]
For a rape-free culture
Men: Love, not shove
Men: Pull it, don’t push it
Women deserve better
Take responsibility for ending rape
Men: End the sex war. Call a truce
Marriage is not a sex contract
Being sensitive is not enough
Because you know that violence is not okay
Men: Take no for an answer
Men are not born violent, men learn to be violent.
Men: Be proud to be non-violent
Real men don’t hit
Men can change
Men: Violence is a choice you don’t have to make.
(Also see quotes on feminism at the end of this document.)
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely
what a feminist is, I only know that people call me a feminist whenever
I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat” - Rebecca
West, 1913
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life. - Virginia
Woolf
Amazon In Training
A woman without a man is like a country without a government
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Adam and Even
Ain't no revolution without women
Behind Every Succesful Woman Is Herself
Be The Girl You Are, Not The Doll You're Sold
Call me Ms
Children are people too.
Don’t call me girl.
Don’t call me sweetie… It’s bad for your teeth.
Don’t put me on a pedestal and then expect me to dust it.
Dress for success: Wear a white penis.
Elect women for a change.
Equal rights are not special rights
Ever wonder why god-centered religions make a woman responsible for
messing up the world?
Feh Mah Nist
Feminism is the radical notion that WOMEN are people too.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
Feminism spoken here
Future Nobel Prize Winner
Future President
Girl Revolution
Girls Can Do Anything
God is just an abbreviation for Goddess
Grrrl power!
Grrrl power! No Spicy, Sporty, Scary shit
Grrrl Pride
Herstory: The greatest story never told.
How about herstory for a change?
I'll Be A Post-Feminist In The Post-Patriarchy
I tried to contain myself, but I escaped.
I was born a woman… I won’t be told how to become one.
If you feel attacked by feminism it's probably a counter-attack
Just say no (to marriage)
Keep your fucking laws off my body!
Listen to women for a change.
Little girls made of sugar and spice grow up to be cheesecakes.
Look Don't Touch
Make a snow woman this winter
Men put us on pedestals, then they look up our dresses.
Menstruate with pride
My Goddess creamed your God
Of Course I'm A Feminist
Patriarchy fuck off!
Patriarchy - The Great Phallusy
Penis envy is a phallussy.
The personal is political.
Punk Rock - It's Not Just For Your Boyfriend Anymore
Raise boys and girls the same way.
Remind Me AGAIN Why I Need A Boyfriend?
Riots not diets
Sexism is a social disease.
Sexism is neaderthal.
Sexism: The original sin
Sisterhood Is Powerful
The best man for a job may be… a WOMAN.
This is what a feminist looks like.
Use The F-Word - F*minist
When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed,
it’s a tradition.
When women start to act like human beings, they’re accused of trying
to be men.
Which of us is the opposite sex?
Woman in labour keeps capital in power
Women are being denied the rights every human being deserves. Educate
and Activate.
Women are watching you [with pair of eyes]
Women make policy, not coffee.
Women power
Manhood is a fiction
Men of quality are not threatened by women’s equality.
Men of quality respect women’s equality.
Men: Resist the patriarchy.
Real men cry
Big car [equals sign with slash through it] big dick
Sexuality
slogans
AC/DC
Adam & Steve
Amy & Eve
Biphobia (crossed out)
BIs will do BIs
Bisexual (two way road sign)
Bisexual by luck, Queer by choice
Boys Will Do Boys
CAUTION : Icepick wielding bisexual fag dyke
Clitsucking Dyke
Clitsucking Faggot
Closets Are For Clothes
Cocksucking Dyke
Cocksucking Faggot
Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are
Come over to the dyke side.
Condom conoisseur
Dip Me In Honey And Throw Me To The Lesbians
Does Doing a Muppet Count as Bestiality?
Don't assume I'm straight and I won't assume you're an asshole
Dykes rule - resist homophobia smash sexism
Fellatio is not an opera
Female at birth, Womyn by choice
Fine! I don't believe you exist either
Freedom Fyghter (w/ lesbian separatist symbol)
Fuck your gender
Gay and proud
Girls Will Do Girls
Heterosexuality isn't Normal, just common - Derek Jarman
Homophobia (crossed out)
How dare you assume I’m heterosexual.
How Dare You Assume I'm Straight
I (heart) Masturbating
I Can't Even Think Straight
I crossdress my Barbies
I Fuck Anything that Moves - So Don't Fidget
I got kicked out of girlguides for eating a Brownie
I have slept with everyone in this city (recycle sign)
I may not be cheap but I am on special this week
I need someone really bad… are you really bad?
I won't assume you're gay if you don't assume I'm straight
If God had meant men to have sex with each other, he would have put
a hole in the middle of their bottoms.
If space and time are curved where do all of the straight people come
from?
I'm A Boy At The Weekend
I'm A Girl At The Weekend
I'm Not Gay, But My Boyfriend Is
I'm Not Lesbian, But My Girlfriend Is
I'm not gay but my teletubby is
I'm straight but it may just be a phase
It ain't pretty being easy
Just say no (to marriage)
Kinsey 2.1 and open to suggestions
Kinsey 3.5 and counting
Kinsey had a limited imagination
L.A.B.I.A. Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything
Lesbian rights are women’s rights.
Lesbians are everywhere.
Let's Get One Thing Straight - I'm Not
Live a little — Have an orgasm
Love makes a family (w/ pink triangle as the V in "love")
Love sees no gender
Male at birth, a man by choice
Militant homosexual
Nobody knows I fuck men
Nobody knows I fuck women
Nobody Knows I'm a Cyberporn star
Nobody Knows I'm a Dyke
Nobody Knows I'm a Fag
Nobody Knows I'm A Lesbian
Nobody Knows I'm a Switch-hitter
Nobody knows I'm Bi
Nobody Knows I'm Gay
One in ten saviours is gay
One nice thing about masturbation — You don’t have to look
your best.
Pink sheep of the family
Poly Pride
Practicing homosexual
Practicing homosexual: why stop before you're perfect?
Queens Will Not be Pawns - Derek Jarman
Queer
Queer by choice
Queer kids rule!
Queers Bash Back
Queers Who Seek Equality With Straights Lack Ambition
Remember Matthew Shepard - Fight homophobia
Riots not diets - fat dykes are revolting
Slut Pride
So Many Boys, Such Little Time
Sorry, I Prefer Boys
Sorry, I Prefer Girls
Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Whips And Chains Excite Me
Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman
That's Doctor Dyke to you!
That's Doctor Faggot to you!
That's Mister Faggot to you!
That's Ms. Dyke to you!
Too Shallow To Love, Too Jaded to Care
Transdyke
Transfag
Transphobia (crossed out)
Try celibacy — Don’t fuck if it bores you.
Two of a Kind beats a Straight
Versatile
Wearing Ribbons is Not Enough
We're Here We're Queer We Riot
When life's a drag wear a dress
I'm straight but it may just be a phase
Straight but not narrow
What made you heterosexual?
When did you come out as heterosexual?
Heterosexual Mardi Gras, 364 days of the year
Feminism:
quotes etc.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and
full humanity of women and men. -- Gloria Steinem
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life. -- Virginia
Woolf
Facts are theory laden; theories are value laden; values are history
laden. -- Donna J. Haraway
"Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has
set up no concentration camps, staved no enemies, practiced no cruelties.
Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working
conditions . . . for safety on the streets . . . for child care, for
social welfare . . . for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms
in the laws. If someone says 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' I ask 'Why? What's
your problem?'" -- Dale Spender, For the Record: The Making and
Meaning of Feminist Knowledge.
Feminists long for men to heal. Those of us whose lives continue to
be bound up with men want to see them become whole. We dream of a world
full of men who could be passionate lovers, grounded in their own bodies,
capable of profound loves and deep sorrows, strong allies of women,
sensitive nurturers, fearless defenders of all people’s liberation,
unbound by stifling conventions yet respectful of their own and others’
boundaries, serious without being humourless, stable without being dull,
disciplined without being rigid, sweet without being spineless, proud
without being insufferably egotistical, fierce without being violent,
wild without being, well, assholes… [Starhawk (1992) A men’s
movement I can trust. In Kay L. Hagan (ed) Women respond to the
men’s movement. San Francisco: Harper. (pp. 27-28)]
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. -- Sally
Kempton.
If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have
an end. -- Maria Mies
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments
that differentiate me from a doormat... -- Rebecca West, 1913, The
Clarion.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret
Mead.
Radical feminism is called "radical" because it is struggling
to bring about really fundamental changes in society. We, in this segment
of the movement, do not believe that the oppression of women will be
ended by giving them a bigger piece of the pie… We believe that
the pie itself is rotten. -- Bonnie Kreps
We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all civil and political
rights that belong to the citizens of the United States be guaranteed
to us and our daughters forever. -- Susan B. Anthony
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference,
and that a small group of determined people can change the course of
history. -- Sonia Johnson.
Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical
orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women
-- or we believe in equality. -- Sonia Johnson
Gender:
quotes etc.
If a society puts half its children into short skirts
and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their [underpants], while
putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them
to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor
games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing
trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the
children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat;
if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half
in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people
will be biologically as well as socially different. [Hubbard, cited
in Rhode, Deborah L. (1997) Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Sex Equality.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (p. 35)
The tension between sexual pleasure and sexual danger
is a powerful one in women’s lives. Sexuality is simultaneously
a domain of restriction, repression, and danger as well as a domain
of exploration, pleasure, and agency. To focus only on pleasure and
gratification ignores the patriarchal structure in which women act,
yet to speak only of sexual violence and oppression ignores women’s
experience with sexual agency and choice and unwittingly increases the
sexual terror and despair in which women live. [Vance, Carole S. (1984).
Pleasure and Danger: Towards a Politics of Sexuality. In Carole S. Vance,
(ed.) Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Boston:
Routledge & Kegan Paul. (p. 1)]
‘Sex’ is a word that refers to the biological
differences between male and female: the visible difference in genitalia,
the related difference in procreative function. ‘Gender’
however is a matter of culture: it refers to the social classification
into ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine.’ [Oakley, Ann
(1982) Sex, Gender and Society. Temple Smith Press (first published
1972). (p. 16)]
… sex refers to the biological and
anatomical differences between male and female, [whereas] gender refers
to the emotional and psychological attributes which a given culture
expects to coincide with physical maleness or femaleness. [Tuttle, Lisa.
(1986). Encyclopedia of Feminism. London: Arrow Books. (p.
123)]
First, whiteness is a location of structural advantage,
of race privilege. Second, it is a “standpoint,” a place
from which white people look at ourselves, at others, and at society.
Third, “whiteness” refers to a set of cultural practices
that are usually unmarked and unnamed. [Frankenberg, Ruth. (1993). White
Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. London:
Routledge. (p. 1)]
In the same way that both men’s and women’s
lives are shaped by their gender, and that both heterosexual and lesbian
women’s experiences in the world are marked by their sexuality,
white people and people of color live racially structured lives. In
other words, any system of differentiation shapes those on whom it bestows
privilege as well as those it oppresses. White people are “raced”,
just as men are “gendered”. And in a social context where
white people have too often viewed themselves as nonracial or racially
neutral, it is crucial to look at the “racialness” of white
experience. [Frankenberg, Ruth. (1993). White Women, Race Matters:
The Social Construction of Whiteness. London: Routledge. (p. 1)]
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women
watch themselves being looked at. [Simone de Beauvoir, 1949, 16]
It’s time to say you can hate sexism and love
men.
[Wolf, Naomi (1993) Radical heterosexuality, or how to love a man and
save your feminist soul. In Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, and Martha
Roth, (eds) Transforming a Rape Culture. Minneapolis: Milkweed
Editions. (p. 361)]
Is it the chromosomes of your lovers that establish
you as a feminist? Or is it the life you make out of the love you make?
[Wolf, Naomi (1993) Radical heterosexuality, or how to love a man and
save your feminist soul. In Emilie Buchwald, Pamela Fletcher, and Martha
Roth, (eds) Transforming a Rape Culture. Minneapolis: Milkweed
Editions. (p. 366).]
Masculinity:
quotes etc.
‘Masculinity’, to the extent the term
can be briefly defined at all, is simultaneously a place in gender relations,
the practices through which men and women engage that place in gender,
and the effects of these practices in bodily experience, personality
and culture. [Connell, R.W. (1995). Masculinities. Sydney:
Allen & Unwin. (p. 71)]
‘Hegemonic masculinity’ is not a fixed
character type, always and everywhere the same. It is rather, the masculinity
that occupies the hegemonic position in a given pattern of gender relations,
a position always contestable… Hegemonic masculinity can be defined
as the configuration of gender practice which embodies the currently
accepted answer to the problem of the legitimacy of the patriarchy,
which guarantees (or is taken to guarantee) the dominant position of
men and the subordination of women. [Connell, R.W. (1995). Masculinities.
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. (pp. 76-7)]
Men tend to pay heavy costs — in the form of
shallow relationships, poor health, and early death — for conformity
with the narrow definitions of masculinity that promise to bring them
status and privilege. [Messner, Michael A. (1997). Politics of Masculinities:
Men in Movements. University of Southern California: Sage. (p.
6)]
Men share very unequally in the fruits of patriarchy;
hegemonic (white, middle- and upper-class, and heterosexual) masculinity
is constructed in relation to femininities and to various (racial, sexual
and class) subordinated masculinities. [Messner, Michael A. (1997).
Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements. University of
Southern California: Sage. (p. 8)]
A truer intimacy [among men in the men’s movement]
comes from recognizing rather than ignoring differences. The themes
of our commonalities as men must be interwoven with, not abstracted
from, our differences. [Brod, Harry (1986) Unlearning racism, valuing
our differences. Changing Men (Special issue: Black masculinity),
No. 17, Winter. (p. 13)]
Men who want to support women in our struggle for
freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important
to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the
crimes of violence against us. – Andrea Dworkin
Profound,
funny, or interesting sayings by women
.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail,
no one will say, "She doesn’t have what it takes." They
will say, "Women don’t have what it takes." -- Clare
Booth Luce
Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals
of a man. -- Nancy Linn-Desmond
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
-- Jennifer Unlimited
He tricked me into marrying him. He told me he was pregnant. -- Carol
Leifer
I speak out of direct and particular anger at an academic conference,
and a white woman says, Tell me how you feel but don't say it too harshly
or I cannot hear you. -- Audre Lorde
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch. -- Gilda
Radner
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done
my job. – Roseanne Barr
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and
a career. -- Gloria Steinem
I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next
door to an amusement park. -- Dolly Parton
I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.
-- Janette Barber
I think -- therefore I’m single. -- Lizz Winstead
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me
at once. -- Jennifer Unlimited
I would love to speak a foreign language, but I can’t. So I grew
hair under my arms instead. -- Sue Kolinsky
I’m not going to vacuum ‘til Sears makes one you can ride
on. -- Roseanne Barr
I’m not offended by dumb blonde jokes, because I know I’m
not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde. -- Dolly Parton
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. -- Sue Grafton
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism
because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. -- Margaret
Atwood
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible
warning. -- Catherine Aird
It’s interesting to speculate how it developed that in two of
the most anti-feminist institutions, the church and the law court, the
men are wearing the dresses. -- Flo Kennedy
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.
-- Laurie Kuslansky
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
-- Lois Wyse
My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there
is a fight against wrong. -- Mother Jones.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first is hitting my
head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -- Erma Bombeck
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. -- Baroness Edith Summerskill
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma
Bombeck
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -- Eleanor
Roosevelt .
Old age ain't no place for sissies. -- Bette Davis
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as
an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly
promoted as a male schlemiel. -- Bella Abzug
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps
they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine
Hepburn
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement
of your chromosomes. -- Bella Abzug
The truth shall set you free, but first it will piss you off. -- Gloria
Steinem
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -- Jane Sellman
There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All
other jobs should be open to everybody. -- Florynce Kennedy
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body
starts falling apart. -- Caryn Leschen
We’ll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the
masculinity of wealth. -- Gloria Steinem
We’ve begun to raise daughters
more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like
our daughters. -- Gloria Steinem
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought
half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton
Women are like tea bags; they don't know how strong they are until they
get into hot water. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently
anything but human. -- Robin Morgan
You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman?
It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.
-- Geri Jewell
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see
a smart woman with a dumb guy. -- Erica Jong