Stephen Marche Quotes

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• We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.

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  World, Contradiction, Novel

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• The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.

  Stephen Marche

  Wilderness

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• Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

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  Fun, Smart, Stupid

  "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction" by Stephen Marche, www.esquire.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

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  Suicide, Attitude, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

  Stephen Marche

  Art, Cities, Mainstream Culture

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• In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more. Women are 40 percent of breadwinners in America, and that number's been rising.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, America, Numbers

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'

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  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

  Stephen Marche

  Fall, Men, Reality

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when Putin has made abusing your wife legal, and transgender bathrooms have just been disallowed in school. There are all these political setbacks. And there's no question that those setbacks are very real and need to be treated as civil-rights issues.

  Stephen Marche

  Hate, Real, School

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The more money women make, the less violence, the less sexual crimes against women. Everything horrific and misogynistic declines. But then what you're dealing with here is "What does it mean to be in love with people who are your equals?" And that's a very beautiful thing that we should cherish, but it's also incredibly tough in some ways.

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  Beautiful, Mean, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

  Stephen Marche

  Book, Being Lied, Lied

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The easier sex gets, the less intimate every sexual act gets. In the Victorian period, a kiss was like a f - k. And now, you know, when actual sexual acts become so easy, their intimacy declines and their meaning declines.

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  Sex, Kissing, Intimacy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.

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  Simple, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow pornography because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.

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  Arabia, Body, Commodity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.

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  Baby, Sex, Firsts

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One thing you can say about Trump is that he is not a traditional patriarch. He has a wife who's not even in the White House. And you could say the same of Duterte in the Philippines and of Putin. They're parodies of masculinity. They're hyper-masculine, but they're also totally unsure of their masculinity, and they parade it around.

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  White, Wife, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a philosophy, it's just obvious. And the other is that you're actually fighting for women: you're promoting women and working towards the betterment of women.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Voice, Gender

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• One [paradox] is that pornography follows in that wake of women's liberation. The first instances of hard-core pornography were in late 18th-century in France, "the Golden Age of Women." The next wave in the 20th century comes from Sweden, one of the first countries where women voted. Then Germany, again, at the forefront of progress. Then America in the '80s, when women were closing the pay gap. And Japan, same thing.

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  Country, Pay Gap, America

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

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  Men, Iconography, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Look at the fact Donald Trump cannot tie a tie. My father took me aside and taught me how to do this when I was eight. He can't shake hands. These are the basic building blocks of traditional masculine style, and he's a parody of it.

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  Father, Block, Hands

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.

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  Real, Mistake, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'd never call myself a feminist, and that the world doesn't need male feminists.

  Stephen Marche

  Feminist, Males, Needs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

  Stephen Marche

  Reality, Echoes, Feminism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Men are enforced into a kind of silence about their gender; they're supposed to not think of it as a performance. That's the definition of manliness - that it's not a performance; it's being yourself, authentic. Whereas women have understood gender as performance. Men have not yet made that quantum leap, or rather they're making it in many ways, they're not thinking about it.

  Stephen Marche

  Being Yourself, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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