#Gender Roles

The Woman Behind Greatness Sees Clearly

At first glance, Jim Carrey’s line plays as a quick punchline, twisting the old saying ‘Behind every great man is a woman’ into something more skeptical and human. By adding ‘rolling her eyes,’ he punctures heroic self-i...

Words, Action, and Thatcher’s Provocative Contrast

Margaret Thatcher’s line works like a political one-liner: it draws an immediate contrast between speaking and doing, assigning each to a different gender. The punch comes from its blunt certainty, as if the distinction...