Unscrewed Quotes

“Trump has spent his life defining his manliness in opposition to the women he dominates and degrades.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“humanizing men, even those who might dehumanize women.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“In every medium, women are relentlessly presented as either rewards, ornaments, or obstacles.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“We need a new cultural definition of masculinity.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Do what you can. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Women’s dress codes at work and school are often cloaked in rhetoric about not “distracting” men”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Why can’t we see how important it is for boys to identify with and look up to complex, badass women?”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“find the cracks in the gates and wedge them open wider,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“men who happily enjoy misogynist porn in private feel equally free to shame women who dare to breastfeed in public.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“even when women are in the spotlight, men are often in control behind the scenes.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Our federal government has been taken over by men who rape and beat the women in their lives,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Critics are also overwhelmingly male—one survey of film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes found only 22 percent of the critics afforded “top critic” status were female.14 More recently, of course, we have become accustomed to a second set of gatekeepers: our friends and family and even random strangers we’ve decided to follow on social media, as well as “peer” reviewers on sites like Goodreads and IMDb. But peer review sites are easily skewed by a motivated minority with a mission (see the Ghostbusters reboot and the handful of manbabies dedicated to its ruination) or by more stubborn and pervasive implicit biases, which most users aren’t even aware they have. (The data crunchers at FiveThirtyEight.com found that male peer reviewers regularly drag down aggregate review scores for TV shows aimed at women, but the reverse isn’t true.)15 As for the social networks we choose? They’re usually plagued by homophily, which is a fancy way to say that it’s human nature to want to hang out with people who make us feel comfortable, and usually those are people who remind us of us. Without active and careful intervention on our part, we can easily be left with an online life that tells us only things we already agree with and recommends media to us that doesn’t challenge our existing worldview.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“It is not yours to complete the work, neither is it yours to desist from it.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“it’s so slow that it’s almost immune to presidential administrations.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“It’s unclear, as of this writing, whether the ACA will survive a Trump administration. “I’m so pissed about that,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“school dress codes often have many more picayune regulations specifically targeting girls’ clothing than boys’,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“masculinity is an ever-shifting set of cultural standards that so many men feel insecure about”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“government shouldn’t be in the business of imposing someone else’s dubious religious code on you.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“In 2016, Utah passed a law declaring pornography a “public health crisis,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“Big Thinkers like IBM’s Watson are programmed and named to sound like men.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“male peer reviewers regularly drag down aggregate review scores for TV shows aimed at women,”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“when there’s a man making money off of nearly every prominent Girl Power message, something’s wrong.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All

“We need to create a culture in which we have more actual value.”
― Jaclyn Friedman, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All