Masculinity Quotes - Page 3

• Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

  David Blankenhorn

  Father, Winning, Ideas

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• I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Prove, Humans

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• You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

  RuPaul

  Bullying, Culture, Obsession

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.

  Frank Pittman

  Brother, Fighting, Acting

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• Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fall, Mastery, Belief

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.37, New World Library

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

  Douglas Wilson

  Responsibility, Assumption, Glad

  Douglas Wilson (2012). “Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

  Tom of Finland

  Dream, Long, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Men, Thinking, Toxic

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

  Gerard Butler

  Fun, Real, Adventure

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Unshakable

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• As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Hero

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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.

  Stephen Marche

  White, Wife, House

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.

  Leslie Feinberg

  Sex, People, Criticism

  Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr

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• I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Texas, Trying

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Passion, Boys

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• Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Men, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, White, Males

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• I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.

  Junot Diaz

  Color, Nerd, Males

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax the requirements of the masculine model: if our father accepts us, then that declares us masculine enough to join the company of men. We, in effect, have our diploma in masculinity and can go on to develop other skills.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Skills

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• It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

  Clarence Clemons

  Letting Go, Strong, Passion

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• In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Literary Theory, Roots

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

  Otto Weininger

  Genius, Kind, Higher

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.111, Рипол Классик

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• I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

  Collier Schorr

  Black And White, Men, Emotional

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• The manliness of Christian love, and the putting away from ourselves of all fear, because we are " perfected in love," is one of the highest lessons that the gospel teaches us, and one of the greatest things which the gospel gives us.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Christian, Love Is, Giving

  Alexander Maclaren (1871). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series”, p.199

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