Quotes About Masculinity

The worst insult you can give a professional athlete is to call them soft. And the stereotype out there is that gay is soft.

The swaggering personal habits of the bitter self-made men only confirmed my adolescent understanding of the social order. Riding a BMW motorcycle without a helmet, taking no shit from the police, drinking Wild Turkey at all hours of the day, carrying a .45 automatic tucked into their waistband—if that wasn't working class, what was?

Destigmatizing male vulnerability is the first step toward rebuilding the absolute ruin that straight men have left the world in.

Real men don't use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer's opinion on how to put this together.

My aunt, thirty years a feminist, says, "A car is just an extension of your penis." Oh, I wish.

Only a man will think of a burp as a greeting for another man.

Anyway, they used to beat up on Barry all the time. They called it roughhousing , which is like men calling lying bullshitting .

One thing you'll never hear boys--or for that matter, men--saying is, "Charlie, that's a good-looking shirt. Kind of a fun thing. And those trousers make your ass look nice. Can I borrow those?

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I lump Canada and the States together. I like good old North American boys.

In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes.

It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.

Growing up, I'd watch 'Rambo' or 'Commando,' and so many action heroes were these huge guys with six-pack abs. It almost became a novelty.

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing up, I never saw my dad without a mustache.

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

I don't see myself as an object, I see myself more as a fantasy to men.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of my novels I suddenly did not want to occupy. I wasn't reneging on it; I just didn't want to do it.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

You men are a bunch of god-damned women.