"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias"
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The subtext is skeptical of grievance as a substitute for analysis. Cohen is poking at the way “liberation” language can become an all-purpose solvent that dissolves nuance: if I’m oppressed, then my prejudices are understandable, even righteous. His suspicion rejects that moral alchemy. Bias, in this framing, isn’t a regrettable side effect of struggle; it’s evidence you’ve imported the same hierarchy you claim to escape.
Context matters: coming from a contemporary writer (and, implicitly, a spiritual-modernist milieu where Cohen is known), the quote reads as a critique of gender essentialism on both sides of the culture-war mirror. It’s less “be nice” than “be consistent.” Liberation, he suggests, is only credible when it refuses to reproduce the binary logic that made liberation necessary in the first place.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Cohen, Andrew. (2026, January 17). I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-suspicious-of-any-man-or-woman-who-approaches-40417/
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Cohen, Andrew. "I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-suspicious-of-any-man-or-woman-who-approaches-40417/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-suspicious-of-any-man-or-woman-who-approaches-40417/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
