Caroline Criado Perez

The fact is that worth is a matter of opinion, and opinion is informed by culture.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

female-shaped ‘absent presence’

male bias that attempts (often in good faith) to pass itself off as ‘gender neutral’.

unpaid care burden,

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

But men forget them, because men do not have female bodies.

By ‘sex’, I mean the biological characteristics that determine whether an individual is male or female. XX and XY. By ‘gender’, I mean the social meanings we impose upon those biological facts – the way women are treated because they are perceived to be female. One is man-made, but both are real.

the reality of human-on-human lethal violence is that it is overwhelmingly a male occupation

The word ‘man’, she wrote, ‘is used in such an ambiguous fashion that it is impossible to decide whether it refers to males or to the human species in general’.