Quotes About Masculinity

In the past, rulers led their troops into battle and, even in peacetime, called themselves fathers of their people. And modern politics retains abundant masculine rituals. Prime minister's question time in Britain, for instance, is a stylised duel and tournament redolent of testosterone.

I didnt learn until I was about 26 that my dad was a national ballroom dancing champion. He won loads of trophies. Im not sure why he was so quiet about his achievements. Maybe he thought ballroom dancing wasnt a manly thing to do.

There was nothing girlish about me. I wore clothes hand-stitched by my mother... I had only one ear pierced and preferred loose shirts and trousers. I think I was imitating my father!

Our culture tends to denigrate things that are associated with women. It's OK for women to wear trousers, for example, but not OK for men to wear skirts.

I could have my hair really short. I didn't have to wear dresses, I could wear baggy old T-shirts and ripped trousers and monkey boots and I was desirable to boys that were into the same stuff.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

My dad is a true man. A man's man. Every manly thing he does, he does so well.

If you are a man, I feel that practicality should always trump fashion.

I don't think I would have made 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood' had Trump not been president. I felt so desperately like we needed to see a model of masculinity that was kind and loving and emotional, and could be the antidote to this president that we had.

We have all these strong men in politics - whether it's Brazil, or the Philippines, or Trump, or Putin. They're all big men: it's let's look up to them, don't be afraid, they're looking after things. It's so fundamentally anti-democratic.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

You're the kind of man a man wants when a man wants a man.

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.

When I wear jeans I want to look like a man, not a child.

Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.