Quotes About Masculinity

Manly men have a caring heart for all living things.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

I don't think working in superheroes is slumming it. I'm proud of this form. I like this. There's nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There's nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There's nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction.

I think one of the problems that comics has in dealing with superheroines is that they try to hard to make them superheroes. All they're doing is the same thing that men do. Just the idea that they're no different than men, except in how they look, always seemed a bit off to me.

Some girls are just cut out to be housewives, drive SUVs and sing in the shower as opposed to being superstars.

Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we're being kicked to the ground; we're not being supported. We're not considered sexy or masculine, this or that. When you start hearing something enough, you start to believe it. But our world is changing, and I think we're starting to see that that's not the end-all be-all.

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

I suppose I'm quite manly in lots of ways, but I like to be made to feel like a woman.

As a black man, so often you grow up suppressing your emotions and sensitivity.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

My God, you big dark handsome brute! I ought to throw a Buick at you.

I still held his automatic more or less pointed at him, but he swung on me just the same. It caught me flush on the chin. I backstepped fast enough to keep from falling, but I took plenty of the punch. It was meant to be a hard one, but a pansy has no iron in his bones, whatever he looks like.

One merely had to imagine a woman candidate doing what Trump did, from lying to leering, to understand what latitude masculinity possesses. No advanced step take by women has been so bitterly contested as that of speaking in public, Susan B. Anthony said in 1900. For nothing which they have attempted, not even to secure the suffrage, have they been so abused, condemned and antagonized. Or as Mary Beard put it last year, We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

When you say lone gunman, everyone talks about loners and guns, but not about men

In my case, this meant identifying with male protagonists, with the Jim of the almost womanless Lord Jim and Jim Carroll's self-anointing stud junkie in The Basketball Diaries and with Pip rather than Estella in Great Expectations, and all the grail seekers and ring beaters and western explorers and chasers and conquerors and haters of women and inhabitants of worlds where women were absent.

There's a direct association between machismo and the refusal to recognize and respond appropriately to the climate catastrophe. It's a result of versions of masculinity in which selfishness and indifference – individualism taken to its extremes – are defining characteristics, and therefore caring and acting for the collective good is their antithesis.

What's the matter with manhood? There's something about how masculinity is imagined, about what's praised and encouraged, about the way violence is passed on to boys that needs to be addressed.

Gay men have redefined and occasionally undermined conventional masculinity—publicly, for many decades—and often been great allies for women.

Vestis virum facit.

Richard Cooper

Anybody can grow a bone in the penis; you don't have to be particularly healthy or tough.