Quotes About Masculinity

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

The masculinity crisis would return with each backlash. The fledgling Boy Scouts of America claimed one-fifth of all American boys by 1920; its founder's explicit aim was to staunch the feminization of the American male by removing young men from the too powerful female orbit. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

My father learned his disinterest under the guise of masculinity. Boys don't cry. There are whole disciplines, institutions, rubrics in our culture which serve as categories of denial. Science is such a category. The torture and death that Heinrich Himmler found disturbing to witness became acceptable to him when it fell under this rubric. He liked to watch the scientific experiments in the concentration camps

When did you get all insightful?" he asked. "I have no idea," Josh admitted. "I don't like it." "Me, either. Makes me feel like a girl. Don't tell anyone." (Ethan and Josh)

T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age.

The worst [about women's football] is never said officially. It is whispered. You hear it as a joke. Women should not play football at all, it is too masculine for their bodies is number one on the list. I usually chop back with that if it is masculinity you want, then go play American football. Leave [soccer] football to the women.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Gender relations are dependent on men being men and women being women.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

I'd rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.

I learned about men from my son.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

I think it would be a lot easier if I said, 'I feel like a dude,' but I was raised by a southern mom, so I know how to put on lipstick and walk in heels and rock that look. It's exactly that juxtaposition that confuses people.

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

In the end, so much of what I wanted to do was to have a body of work that exhaustively looked at black American notions of masculinity: how we look at black men - how they're perceived in public and private spaces - and to really examine that, going from every possible angle.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?""It's the only way we know how to love.

he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with 'being a man.' 'being a man' had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless

Men were not supposed to be mushy, but one thing his mother taught him was that it was better to understand your feelings than hide from them