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Jill Filipovic Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“If you refuse a service to certain a group of people because of their identity, that's discrimination. Remember that religion was also one justification for refusing to serve African Americans, refusing to hire women.”
— Jill Filipovic
Tagged: discrimination, Society
“Blaming adolescent girls for the predatory behavior of adult men. Jesus Christ these people are soulless.”
— Jill Filipovic
Tagged: Sexual Harassment, pedophilia
“And conservatives think the top story is Dr. Seuss? If that's where we all turn our attention, how convenient for them.”
— Jill Filipovic, Opinion: The real reason for the Dr. Seuss freakout
Tagged: Dr. Seuss, Cancel Culture, Stories, evolve
“Replace all harassing men with compelling and talented women.”
— Jill Filipovic
Tagged: Sexual Harassment, Women Empowerment, smash the patriarchy
“Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners, perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves. Even today, many men find themselves newly appalled at sexism after having a girl, a reaction apparently not stoked by being born of a woman, married to a woman or simply seeing women as human.”
— Jill Filipovic, Why Men Want to Marry Melanias and Raise Ivankas
Tagged: Sexism, Gender Norms, Misogyny
“Men have often given their female offspring more opportunities than their female partners, perhaps seeing their children as extensions of themselves. Even today, many men find themselves newly appalled at sexism after having a girl, a reaction apparently not stoked by being born of a woman, married to a woman or simply seeing women as human.”
— Jill Filipovic, Jill Filipovic, Why Men Want to Marry Melanias and Raise Ivankas
Tagged: feminism, Men, Women
“After centuries of feminist activism, it finally seems like most of society understands that sexual assault and harassment are wrong; we increasingly understand that it’s not just about sex, but about power, and that harassment in the workplace isn’t about sexual desire, but about women’s rights to participate in the workforce.

What we haven’t touched on nearly as thoroughly is heterosexual sex for women in a society that still sees sex as primarily about male pleasure; that continues to position women’s bodies as sexual objects, receptacles and stand-ins for sex itself; and that encourages sexual aggressiveness in men and congeniality and passivity in women”
— Jill Filipovic
Tagged: feminism, Misogyny, Sex, Men, Women
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