Quotes About Masculinity

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot be changed. Is this how you feel as a director, trapped inside your own masculinity?

He cried for a long time. I stroked his head and held him close. If he'd been a woman, I would have kissed his hair. But strict limits to intimacy are straight man's burden.

he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: To feel as if he couldn't survive without a woman made a man feel weak; And yet, without a woman in his life, a man lost the sense of agency and difference that, for better or worse, was the foundation of his manhood.

but he was a lonely straight male, and a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: ¶ To feel as if he couldn't survive without a woman made a man feel weak; ¶ And yet, without a woman in his life, a man lost the sense of agency and difference that, for better or worse, was the foundation of his manhood.

Mencils?" "Pencils for men.

The alpha male must not be a wife beta.

In this set of prescriptions, the beard enjoys a privileged position. It is indeed the symbol of virility, just as the veil is the symbol of feminity. But whereas the veil, as is normal, must conceal femi­ninity, the beard is intended on the contrary to draw attention to itself and in some sense exhibit virility. The beard is a form of masculinity. There is therefore a canonical duty to wear a beard.

Men don't cry but their eyes just take bath sometimes

Finally Modernism, which denies and abolishes every difference, cannot rest until it has made woman man and man woman, and, putting every distinction on a common level, kills life by placing it under the ban of uniformity.

Dr. Abraham Morgentaler speaking about his book on the CBS morning show a year or so ago. "Men feel embattled, they feel like they can't get it right

Men fake it because they can't get it up and get it right.

The Kid made a pass at Vi," Miller said, staring straight ahead. His blue eyes like ice. "He told her he'd like to place his pecker right between her titties and ride her like a mule." "The Kid said that?" Harvey asked, lighting up a Chesterfield and fanning out the match. "I don't even know what that means. 'Like a mule'?

I imagine the insides of myself sometimes-- part female, part male, part terrible dragon.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

Men are naive to their bodies. They don't pay attention to their skin like women do.

Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It's not perceived as very masculine.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

I thought perhaps if I tried something that was so masculine perhaps that's what I would become. Sadly, that wasn't the case... sad in the sense that maybe it would have made some of the darker periods in my life a bit more manageable.

He looks strong and animal and dominant, a beast of sex.

his smile became infuriatingly arch and he-man.