Definitions
Etymologies
- From Old English wīfmenn, from wīf + menn. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And it's not any better if the writers are *women*, while perhaps not shocking indicates that there are many women writers and men who have not examined their assumptions about the way female characters should be, and why they're writing them that way.”
“We find any form of trans or genderqueer to be little more than more gender enforcement, more purveying of gender stereotypes, and more confining and disrespectful of women *as women* rather than less of any of these things.”
On Transgender, Transsexuals, and Entrenching the Binary Gender System
“If divorce nurtured such traits and often required women to use them in the workforce, then divorce was fully compatible with the larger goal of economic independence for women .”
“Few women are so happy as to meet with _five good husbands_, and therefore I should be glad to devote the remaining part of my life to the good of my country and family, in a more public and active station than that of a _wife_, according to your late scheme for _a septennial administration of women_.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
“I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as _Christian women_.”
“I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as _Christian women_ >.”
“In other words, Jewish women were sold as _white women_ were in the first settlement of Virginia -- as _wives_, _not_ as slaves.”
“In other words, Jewish women were sold as _white women_ were in the first settlement of Virginia -- as _wives, not_ as slaves.”
“For if one considers his own impression after having seen an assemblage of women dressed in Quaker costume, he will find it to be, not of a confusion of twinkling finery, but of many fair, sweet _faces_, of charming, nice-looking _women_, and not of articles of dress.”
“The first conclusion, then, one that is forced upon the thoughtful mind by the fact of this difference in the sex possibilities of women and other female animals, is, as already stated, but which is here repeated for emphasis, that coitus _can_ be engaged in _by women_ when”
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PossibleUnderscore Yeah, I probably should have said with what he writes. Thanks for pointing that out. :-) Aug 4, 2009
madmouth Shaw is definitely not a misogynist; Higgins is the butt of Pygmalion.
I wouldn't say, all the same, that a statement like "Women upset everything" is indicative of misogyny. Aug 4, 2009
rolig PU, there is no real reason to think this is Shaw's opinion. It's what his character Henry Higgins says, and I don't think the misogynistic Higgins is really Shaw's mouthpiece here. One should be careful when quoting from plays.
Of course, this quote was the basis of Higgins's song "I'm an Ordinary Man" in the Lerner and Lowe musical My Fair Lady:
Let a woman in your life and your serenity is through,
she'll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome,
and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you...
Let a woman in your life, and you're up against a wall,
make a plan and you will find,
that she has something else in mind,
and so rather than do either you do something else that neither likes at all…
Aug 3, 2009
PossibleUnderscore Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
-Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
(Disclaimer: PossibleUnderscore does not necessarily agree with opinions of George Bernard Shaw.) Aug 3, 2009
oroboros "Women" is the only word in English where "o" represents the "i" sound. Dec 27, 2006