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Quotes About Masculinity

The idea that "femininity is artificial" is also blatantly misogynistic. Just as woman is man's "other", so too is femininity masculinity's "other". Under such circumstances, negative connotations like "artificial", "contrived", and "frivolous" become built into our understanding of femininity - indeed, this is precisely what allows masculinity to always come off as "natural", "practical" and "uncomplicated".
~ Julia Serano
I friggin' hate that word! 'Vulnerable' -- it's what wimpy men have to believe all women are inside no matter how tough they seem, or else they'll wet their Y-fronts in fear!
~ Julie Burchill
A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
~ Julie Burchill
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
~ Julie Burchill
I like some men a lot, but from the start, before I knew anything, it was always girls and women who lit me up.
~ Julie Phillips
Qué machito está esta noche
~ Julio Cortazar
Nada me impresiona más que los hombres que lloran. Nuestra cobardía nos ha hecho considerar el llanto como cosa de mujercitas. Cuando solo lloran los valientes: por ejemplo, los héroes de Homero".
~ Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody's always going on about—he wasn't no home-runner hitter or fly bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.
~ Junot Diaz
Any woman who laughs as dope as she does won't ever have trouble finding men.
~ Junot Diaz
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~ Junot Diaz
I doubt that I can speak for all Dominican men but I doubt they can either.
~ Junot Diaz
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
~ Juvenal
It was the way he communicated it, while still being the man's man that he was, the alpha, who liked being in charge
~ Kailin Gow
I've always said in interviews that I am a man I've never claimed to be anything but. Other than for performances, the women's clothing is in a box.
~ Divine
When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews.
~ Megan Fox
I am not intimidated by puerile boys acting like pre-teens.
~ Ellen Ullman
People say that I'm very intimidating when they see me. I think confidence can be intimidating. I kind of think it's good, because it keeps away a lot of boys.
~ Stefflon Don
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
~ Jon Favreau
James Bond is one of those heroes that all guys feel they could actually be like.
~ Pierce Brosnan
I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.
~ Samaire Armstrong
Every guy's got to own a watch. I'm a watch guy. Men don't get to wear jewelry, really, and that's the one item that we can make our own and personalize our stuff with.
~ Jesse Lee Soffer
How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?
~ Method Man
When I first joined the army, I felt I had to be part of the alpha male culture. But I didn't.
~ Ant Middleton
I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.
~ Engelbert Humperdinck