In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
No man is born believing that he has dominion over women. Instead, this view is handed down from generation to generation and amplified through social custom, culture, and popular media.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Beliefs about gender dominance are learned and perpetuated by society rather than being innate.
This quote by Cyril Ramaphosa emphasizes that the idea of male dominance over women is not something inherent at birth but rather a learned behavior that is transmitted through various societal channels such as customs, culture, and media. It suggests that patriarchal beliefs are not natural but constructed, highlighting the need to challenge and change these longstanding narratives to promote equality.
Themes
GenderDominanceSocietyLearningPatriarchy
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about gender equality at a conference.
More from Cyril Ramaphosa
All quotes βThere are times when leadership needs to take a bold move forward. And there are times when the leadership needs to act on the basis of what the grass roots say. You need to have your political thermometer constantly in the political waters to know when to give leadership in what way.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
We must listen to the concerns of our people without dismissing them. When people see something wrong, there is something wrong. When our people see corruption, it means there is corruption. When our people see that their resources are being stolen by certain people, it means this is happening, and we should listen.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
Land is a very broad as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land, there is quite a lot of emotion.
Cyril RamaphosaRead
Similar quotes
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
Edward AbbeyRead
Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.
David BoiesRead
When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.
Vivek MurthyRead
Basically, men are afraid of women and canβt handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
Henry RollinsRead
And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.
Denis JohnsonRead
When I did the original research for 'Odd Girl Out,' I asked every bullied girl I interviewed to tell me what she needed most from her family. The answer truly surprised me. It wasn't having the best solutions, calling the school, or trying to act like everything was okay. It was empathy.
Rachel SimmonsRead