Quotes About Masculinity

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

I think the word 'twink' is pejorative. There's something endemic about the gay community where we praise masculinity more than anything else.

When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many young gay and trans people of color.

The thing is this sport doesn't have a heavyweight who is prettier than I am and can get down.

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.

Sometimes I feel like there's a little bit of woman deep down inside of me, that when I put on the drag, she's able to come out.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car is not really a man.

It blows my mind when I actually consider that men are as human as I am. How can you possibly be as human and have all of the thoughts and feelings that I have and never be able to talk about it, ever? Guys are in desperate need of truth telling. They are in desperate need of a revolution.

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

Tapping into a more masculine, macho culture, I got in touch with my femininity, but differently. Macho culture is also pride of the body and showing it off - a relationship to theatricality, to construction. It's about owning your narrative again.

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that.

Tattoos are traditionally super masculine, but I just like it. I like the art.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Steph's such a good dad for girls. He's super attentive, and he's, like, not too manly to get down on the floor and play with them and have a tea party.

Hey, if that's what it takes. You and Sonya. I'll toss one of you ever each shoulder. Pretty manly, huh?

The Arab soldier is interested in just three things: women, horses, and guns," a French officer told an American colonel, who replied, "The American soldier is the same, except that he doesn't care anything about horses and guns.

Anyway, one of the things that I love about Ade in a butch matey kind of hard sort of way is the way that he likes to beat people up,

What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?

There is truth in what they say about the sexes. Men like cars; women like clothes. I also like cars because they take me to clothes.