Quotes / Women Are Wiser

Live-Action TV

"Come on, Joan. I need you to be the voice of the bright side."

— Pete Campbell, Mad Men

"You women have evolved, but we men still want the same as always."

— Julián, The Ministry of Time

Music

"You're certainly the furriest type of twister
But what would you ever do without your sister?
You would for sure just crash and burn
'Cause even in the face of death, dear brother, you just never learn"

— Coco Bandicoot, "A Little Bit Insane", JT Music

Stand-Up Comedy

"There's a huge pile of crap I think we're better off without, this idea that women are somehow more pure or more wise than men and that the world would be better off if women ran it. I got three names for you that should end that little piece of bullshit straight away. Lucrezia Borgia, Elizabeth Bathory, and Catherine the Great, okay? Don't know who they are? Pick up a copy of Female Psychopaths Who Gained Enormous Political Power and Used It To Fuck Everyone Around Them Up and educate yourself."

— Bill Hicks

Toys

Orde: I was the first Toa of Psionics ever created. But I was a little too, let's say... agressive in how I used my powers. I had a temper back then. A short fuse plus plus psionics leads to bad things. Sometimes some very bad things. [...] After that, someone decided that maybe a gentler touch was needed for Psionics… so all the subsequent Psionics types were made female.

Chiara: Right. (Casually electrocutes a lizard on a nearby rock) We females are so gentle after all.

— BIONICLE, "The Yesterday Quest"

Web Comics

Susan: Lemont, have you ever noticed how in comic strips and sitcoms, the men are usually clueless victims of life, while the women are wise and have their lives in order?
Lemont: Another bad day at work, Susan?
Susan: Why can't my life be like a f*ckin' comic strip!!!

— Candorville (a comic strip)

Web Original

There's this whole subtext behind the "women are smarter" argument that smacks of the stereotype that women are everyone's mother. As in, you (a male) want to just watch the game and goof off, but your girlfriend or wife is nagging you to clean up (like your mom used to nag you to clean your room). This argument says it's woman's natural place to be the "responsible adult" in the relationship while the men get to go off and act like idiots. Women get all the fun of cleaning up after the men, or all the fun of nagging the men to pick up after themselves. Women's place is to be the stick in the mud, the killjoy, the one who sets limits and enforces them.

— This Forum post on Girl Wonder

Anyway, finally dad discovers the truth and this gives Mrs. Tom Hanks a chance to throw a big Oscar clip, one of those "women are wise and in touch with their emotions and men are big, insensitive, stupid oafs" scenes...

— Cinema de Merde's review of Raise Your Voice

If her husband is the one who knocks, then she's supposed to be the one who knows better, the one who figures out how to extricate herself from the marriage and accepts the consequences of being a so-called accessory instead of digging herself even deeper into an aiding-and-abetting hole. We expect this, perhaps subconsciously, because Skyler is a mom and all of us are conditioned from birth to see our mothers as our ethical barometers.

— Jen Chaney on Skyler White

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