"Virtually 100 percent of TV ads that portray only one sex as a jerk portray the man as the jerk."

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— Burt Ward

Entertainment1945

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— John Updike

Literature1932–2009

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"The inability to listen and to attend is of course a mental defect; but habit may make the defect so great, that a man's ears may almost lose the faculty of hearing what another man says, and he may b…"

— George Long (scholar)

Literature1800–1879

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