Masculinity Quotes - Page 8

• Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

  Janet Mock

  Men, Say Anything, Desire

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Moving, Loss

  "How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

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• I think there's a lot of scope in broadening the way videogames approach depictions of masculinity, which is still extremely narrow in scope. It would be nice to see a panel about gender in videogames and it not just be about one gender!

  Neil Druckmann

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: za.ign.com

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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.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Iconography, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Why do you do smoky makeup, why do you try to act pretty on broadcast, etc. For hip-hop where purity is important and masculinity plays a large part, I believe it's definitely a critique that could come out.

  Kim Nam-joon

  Believe, Makeup, Play

  Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com

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• while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Men, Class

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Artistic, Homosexuality, Rate

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.23, Northwestern University Press

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• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality

  "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

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• Identity is marketed in national capitalism as a property. It is something you can purchase, or purchase a relation to. Or it is something you already own that you can express: my masculinity, my queerness . But identity need not be simply a caption for an image of an unchangeable concrete self. It is also a theory of the future, of history.

  Lauren Berlant

  Self, Identity, Needs

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Father, Men

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• Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

  Robert Jensen

  Hurt, Men, Differences

  Robert Jensen (2007). “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

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• What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Talking

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• The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough.

  Frank Pittman

  Taken, Exercise, Men

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• We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Giving

  Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi, July 1, 1948.

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• I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

  Bryan Callen

  Celebrate

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• I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

  Nate Parker

  Thinking, Stronger, Overcoming

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

  Nate Parker

  Males, Culture, Roles

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then all of sudden you have something to protect.

  Nate Parker

  Crazy, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Sports, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team.

  Frank Pittman

  Girl, Attitude, Team

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• The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Women, Female, Purpose

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