Quotes About Masculinity

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

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

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

One of the causes, by the way, of the apparent lack, at the present time, of great men lies in the poverty of the contemporary male coiffure. Rich in whiskers, beards, and leonine manes, the great Victorians never failed to look the part, nowadays it is impossible to know a great man when you see one.

Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?

There's nothing wrong with a man shedding a tear.

Boys, men, she said. They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

Moisturiser and a good cry: two things for modern men to think about.

Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.

Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this thing is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

Have you ever watched a group of boys together? Look at them. They punch one another. They push. There's a lot of aggression, even if it looks like friendly aggression. It's really odd, but it explains a lot about how males are. And about the world, I suppose. About wars and ecological irresponsibility and bad behaviour generally.

It was always the strongest men who were the first to cry, thought Mma Ramotswe. Some people said it was the other way round, but they were wrong, she told herself; they were simply wrong. (To the Land of Long Lost Friends)

He will be a small man inside, said Mma Ramotswe. He will feel small and unimportant. That is why he needs to put ladies down, Mma. Men who are big inside never feel the need to do that.

For three years between 2014 and 2017 academics in the UK carried out a study about the images of men that women found attractive. The results, published in Feminist Media Studies, discovered a disturbing trend. Newsweek summed up the shocking findings in a headline, 'Men with muscles and money are more attractive to straight women and gay men – showing gender roles aren't progressing.

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

By playing these games about "arbitrary" gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak "masculine" anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.

A husband must be hard in order to take on masculine responsibility. A husband must be soft in order to avoid crushing those for whom he is responsible. Maintaining these twin imperatives in balance requires great wisdom, far more than men may have apart from the grace of God.

13. What is biblical masculinity? It is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

I got called 'pretty boy' my whole life.

She—Sometimes you appear really manly and sometimes you are effeminate. How do you account for it? He—I suppose it is hereditary. Half of my ancestors were men and the other half were women.

Machismo itself had turned against the machos, made man a prisoner of himself, obliged not to cry, not to fail to get it up, not to give in, not to say uncle…. Fear, your name is macho, something the Bard never said, but that I do. How many women have screwed the man they wanted, simply because he couldn't refuse a woman?" [House of the Fortunate Buddha]

You told me ghouls were male. Rodan is male - and asinine. King Kong is male. I could've been a witch, but the Devil is male. Faust is male. The man who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima was male. I was never on the moon.