Quotes About Toxic masculinity

The kind of boy's club I'm used to? It is definitely not a jock-y, frat-y kind of thing. They say, 'I'm sensitive and nerdy,' but actually, it's like, 'You're a huge child and you're terrified of women, but you don't like sports, so you think that makes you less of a misogynist.'

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

She probably has a row of men's dicks nailed to her wall, like stuffed animal heads.

Rape is unmanly.

One man who had known Lloyd years earlier said flatly that he "hated women.

The Van Dykes had determined that America was suffering from "testosterone poisoning," and vowed that they would speak to men only if they were waiters or mechanics

Of course, if we've learned anything, it's how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.)

At some difficult-to-determine point, among middle-class white boys in the Middle West, fights, instead of ending when a combatant hit the ground, took on new life there, the "boys will be boys" chivalry of boxing giving way to the archaic regression of overkill, a term that dates from 1946; every opponent must be spread; every offense, however minor, leads to holocaust.

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity

What kind of degenerate thinks it is manly to beat a woman—that he is somehow affirming his superior status in the world through violence against those he is intended to protect?

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.

We hear a lot about this phrase 'toxic masculinity' but I think the real poison in manhood is silence.

There is a lot of toxic masculinity around.

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

Trump's America means many things, but this much is clear - it means toxic white masculinity is not just permitted, it's fully empowered - and getting worse.

I hated myself because I had this imagined version of who I wanted to be. Looking back, this idealized person was an amalgamation of various toxic leading men I would watch in movies over the years. Cool. Strong. Mysterious. Serious. Intense.

No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.

We rarely see cisgender heterosexual men in positions where they're nurturers. We only paint femmes, trans women, and cis women as nurturers, and because of toxic masculinity, men are taught not to be that way.

I think if we took away that toxic masculinity then the world would be a much better place.

Young boys who are awkward or nervous or anxious, they find self-confidence in a way of looking at the world that is toxic.

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.