Posted on 08/19/2018 1:36:52 PM PDT by Morgana
A 'sexist' sign at a Houston school has been removed after it caused an uproar on social media.
The quote, which sat above a row of lockers at Gregory-Lincoln elementary school in Houston Independent School District, read: 'The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.'
Many expressed their horror, saying they believed the quote was victim-blaming and perpetuating the women are responsible for men's actions.
The quote began drawing controversy on Friday when Houston resident Lisa Beckman tweeted a picture of it.
'This is the wall at Gregory-Lincoln Middle School in Houston ISD,' she wrote in a post accompanying the tweet.
'It's perpetuating horrible gender stereotypes, shaming women, and relinquishing boys of all responsibility. It's sexist, mysogonistic [sic], and discriminatory! I'm horrified.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You are right but a lot of the reason is that so many exist who raise hell if a woman is encouraged to respect herself and maybe require respect from others....god and evil are doing a not-so-slow swap as things that used to be associated with social stigma are being raised high and that which used to tell society to be decent is trampled....God told us it would degenerate into much worse than what we see and it’s amazing to see how far we have fallen and to realize the slope is just getting oiled and goes deeper into the depths than most of of can begin to imagine...
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