In private, Hyacinth came up with an acronym for them: SWAMPers. This meant that as a bare minimum they found it necessary to Shave, Wash, Anoint, Make-up and Perfume all parts of their body at least once a day.
Neal Stephenson: The Big U
Schlagwort: Geschlecht
SWAMP.
Half of the shit you won't believe.
My husband's girlfriend's husband just called me up
How messed up is that?
It's so insane that I have to laugh
But then I think about our two boys trying to become men
There's nothing funny about that
The Chicks: Sleep At Night
Strikingly obvious.
And the truth is that anyone can clearly see that humanity is split into two categories of individuals with manifestly different clothes, faces, bodies, smiles, movements, interests, and occupations; these differences are perhaps superficial; perhaps they are destined to disappear. What is certain is that for the moment they exist in a strikingly obvious way.
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Stuperiority.
[...] throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills.
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
Outsourcing Grownupping.
One of the things that was a huge realization for me was when someone explained why ADHD was thought of as a boy's disorder that you grow out of -
Because the men would be assumed to have both a wife AND a secretary, onto whom they would offload everything ADHD is bad at.