Social Constructs Quotes

I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking

Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we’d all be born in pairs; as couples.

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

What I was pointing to was that, yeah, blackness is a fiction; whiteness is a fiction. When we live according to these categories, we’re living within a fiction. Of course, it’s a fiction with very real consequences.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space.

If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.