Gynarchy Quotes

Start a conversation about the following quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

Reject the binary. Realize that other genders don’t revolve around maleness. That other sexualities don’t revolve around straightness. The world doesn’t have to revolve around straight men. Masculinity is NOT the absence of femininity; it is a complementary set of characteristics that are apparent in everyone.

Power does not always corrupt. That’s nothing more than a believable but tired old myth. As presidential biographer Robert Caro states, “Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.” It reveals the nature and character of those holding it. Caro says, “Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.