Quotes About Masculinity

I like guys, but I also identify as a guy - if that makes sense.

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But if I'm going to stab my gay brother in the back who isn't butch and who maybe acts a little bit more effeminate, what good is that?

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

America is immature as a nation, and part of the reason why 'Hung' is a hit show is because it deals with that immature side of the male brain where we are kind of comparing ourselves to the rest of the world.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

The idea of romantic heroes - When you say the word hero,' it implies it's someone you look up to. We talk a lot with Bridgerton' about it being female-centric, but also, what are men looking up to? What am I doing with this icon of masculinity?

Every manly icon the West has ever admired has embodied the very spirit of American independence.

Les (dieux) monothéistes, fieffés machos, n'ont jamais rien compris au bonheur

Men are proud of being men, and that is one of the greatest virtues.

En fait, pour bâtir un couple, il faut être quatre : un homme plus sa part de féminité, une femme plus sa part de virilité. Deux êtres complets ne recherchent plus chez l'autre ce qui leur manque. Ils peuvent s'associer sans fantasmer sur une femme idéale ou un homme idéal puisqu'ils les ont déjà trouvés en eux, déclame mon compagnon de célestitude.

Bibi replied, gender's a social construction, most of us are born male or female but the concepts of masculinity and femininity are society's inventions, none of it is innate, are you following? no, not really

I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes—I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.

Somehow men were supposed to have gained enough sexual expertise to teach women about sex. But having to project a masculine image at all times kept them from learning. If you already know all the answers, you can't ask questions.

Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Jake's mustache

What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size Jockey shorts for his entire life. And so you have a man with a brand-new 40-inch waist who is trying to get into size 36 Jockey shorts, a man who is now wearing a combination of supporter and tourniquet. Proud men have gone to the brink of gangrene to maintain the interior fashion of their youth.

The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.

The NBA: where questioning your sexuality happens!

This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that can be redeemed before he is actually worthy of love, there is a missing piece to that strength.

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.