Quotes About Cultural norms

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Boys don't cry, but men do.

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Old people poke me at weddings and tell me "your next" So I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos—that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished—is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

If you decide to go clubbing on a Friday night, and you're home before two A.M., you're not a man's man.

There is something I don't get about the party scene in Delhi and Gurgaon, especially in Gurgaon. Why do people dress up so much when they go out to the nightclub or disco here?

Nudity is no big deal as a German. It's all rather normal and boring.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

There is no pressure from my family to get married.

Taking your husband's name when you became his wife was one thing. Taking your town's name when you became its beauty queen was something else again.

not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies.