HOUSTON – A now-removed quote on a school wall caused an uproar on social media after a woman claims the words are "sexist, mysogonistic, and discriminatory."
Twitter user @lbeckman posted the quote, which reads, "The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman."
According to @lbeckman, the words were placed on the wall at Gregory-Lincoln Education Center for the Performing and Visual Arts in the Houston Independent School District. The school said the quote was removed Friday evening.
@lbeckman said, "It's perpetuating horrible gender stereotypes, shaming women, and relinquishing boys of all responsibility."
This is the wall at Gregory-Lincoln Middle School in Houston ISD.
— lbeckman (@lbeckman) August 17, 2018
It's perpetuating horrible gender stereotypes, shaming women, and relinquishing boys of all responsibility. It's sexist, mysogonistic, and discriminatory!
I'm horrified. @shannonrwatts #MeToo #HISD pic.twitter.com/UqjaDlI0ys
The profile of @lbeckman reads, "Marketer. Athlete. MBA. Friend. Improviser. Accidental Activist. I don't hate guns, I hate guns in the wrong hands. LA-Boulder-Philly-Houston."
The quote was apparently said by Sydney Biddle Barrows, an American businesswoman, management consultant and writer.
HISD released the following statement on the matter:
Please be advised that the quote on the wall of Gregory Lincoln PK-5 Education Center has been removed. Overnight, the wall decal letters were taken down, the wall was floated out, and new slab of drywall was installed and painted.
The school later said the decal was removed Friday before the end of the day