{"id":1587,"date":"2007-12-01T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/12\/01\/self-sustaining-gender-rigidities\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:15:25","slug":"self-sustaining-gender-rigidities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/12\/01\/self-sustaining-gender-rigidities\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Sustaining Gender Rigidities?"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Men have a stake in believing that we are not really like that. Women have a stake in believing that men really don\u2019t see them that way. For each party, facing the truth often feels as if it is too much to bear. So we turn away and pretend.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Robert Jensen<\/a> in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity.<\/a><\/p>\n