“By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMadeGirlBoysFemaleMalesFeel GoodDancerMale Female Author:Jack Wagner
“Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.” ChildrenReasonMotherWomenBoysMalesGet AwayNotorious Author:Laura Schlessinger
“Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.” GirlBoysFemaleScientistStressSpeciesMalesBoy And GirlMammals Author:Leonard Sax
“I hope it won't come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.” BigsYoungInterestBoysBehaviorSurpriseMalesHomosexual Author:Ben Stein
“Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins.” StillsFeelingsBodyPainAmericaGirlBoysResearchFemaleTraditionDifficultyMalesConsideringHoodSexuallyRepressedContinuationCircumcision Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.” LittlesLongMatterHardOrderGirlNaturalBoysGrowing UpGrowingHairBaseballMalesCertaintyPantsLittle BoysSkirtsOnce Upon A TimeLong HairNatural OrderAbsolute CertaintyShort Hair Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.” WantMeanHomeFatherGrowsBoysRolesGrowing UpFiguresModelsMalesHardestRole ModelsAbsentMale Role Models Author:Geoffrey Canada
“When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.” MenWorldMoralBoysDevelopmentGuiltMalesNoiseUncomfortablePullingMasculineManlyMystiqueMoral Development Author:Frank Pittman
“At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.” KnowsMenWorldBelieveHeartHomeMotherBoysBreakReadyInvolvedMalesCivilizedFrightenedManhoodNot ReadyOutcastBondingPuberty Author:Frank Pittman
“Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.” IfsGivingChildrenRealBoysGreaterTeacherDisciplineAdvantageFemaleDignityMalesMoodSuperiorsCommandContactEthicalUniformityPhysical Strength Author:G. Stanley Hall
“The transgender movement even divides itself up by gender, as many folks stick with their same trans-genders (female-to-male or male-to-female). Additionally, the movement gets strangely subdivided among, for example, male cross-dressers, sissy boys, butch women, femme dykes, drag kings, drag queens, transvestites, intersexed, transsexuals (post-op, pre-op, and non-op).” BoysExampleMovementKingsFemaleCrossesSticksMalesFolksGenderPostsQueensDividesDragTransgenderTransFemmeSissyDrag QueenDressersTransvestitesDykesTranssexuals Author:Kate Bornstein
“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.” YearsFirstsMadeEvilProcessBoysDogCreationPositionLetting GoFemaleGardenDecidedDoctorsRoseMalesCreatorLegendsAdamDoctor WhoPhantomsRibsPretextEjaculation Author:William S. Burroughs
“The most dangerous kind of girl involvement with gangs is one where the girls are just sort of hanging around the gang boys or even being part of the male gang.” KindGirlBoysDangerousMalesGangInvolvementHanging AroundKind Of Girl Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict breaks out, the males are much better at reconciling. In a study done in Finland, children who had quarreled were asked how much longer they intended to be angry at one another. The boys proudly said: "Oh, at least one or two days." The girls said "forever".” ChildrenSaidTwoDoneHandsGirlBoysBreakForeverStudyViolenceConflictFemaleAngryMalesStrifeTwo DaysBreak OutFinland Author:Frans de Waal
“Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.” YoungGirlParentCommunityHealingBoysSawsBehaviorNegativeFemaleDown AndMalesWellnessOur CommunityAbusive Author:Pam Grier
“There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as peaks of excellence - perfect things that we simply take for granted as symbols of greatness. So imagine how delighted and honoured I am to join with all the other small peaks in congratulating the Choir of Choirs on its anniversary. In admiration, since I was a boy!” NamesPerfectBoysImagineGreatnessExcellenceMalesSymbolsGrantedHotelAdmirationDelightedChoirEverestHang UpsMount EverestPerfect ThingsShangri Author:Ron Moody
“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'” IfsNeedsWritingLooksBoysGreaterEasierDirectorsEqualDirectMalesConvincedListsTrickyScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Nora Ephron
“My sexuality is straight transvestite or male lesbian. It seems we are beyond the idea that I am gay and hiding it. If I had to describe how I feel in my head, I'd say I'm a complete boy plus half a girl. I don't seem to have the sixth sense that women have or their stronger senses of taste and smell. Gay men can also have it but straight men don't.” IfsMenFeelsIdeasSeemsGirlHalfBoysTasteGayStrongerMalesSmellSexualitySensesPlusHidingGay MenSixth SenseTransvestitesTaste And Smell Author:Eddie Izzard
“This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?” KnowsFeelsMeanLittlesI CanDoneWantedUsedGirlLiteratureBoysOur LivesEmpathyMalesDrivenPlotPeterBellsTomsProtagonistsFellasWendyGreat LiteratureSawyerBecky Author:Meryl Streep
“I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.” ThinkingBoysModelsMalesTechniqueObsessionToysLocation Author:Ellen von Unwerth
“I'd like to go back and revisit the Flash/Captain Cold relationship, because that to me has been the heart of it all along. My impression is that The Flash is a show about a boy's journey into manhood. For the Flash character, there is a variety of male models presented to him, and Captain Cold is one of them.” HeartHas BeensCharacterShowsBoysJourneyColdModelsMalesImpressionVarietyFlashCaptainsManhood Author:Wentworth Miller
“There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.” MenWellsChildrenBookStoriesNightInterestingBoysIssuesExampleLoversHusbandTraditionBraveWesternMalesCarefulArchitectureLikesTalesMediumsRangeFairyBe CarefulFairy TaleLoyalDevotedArabianArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“It's very important to older male homosexuality in Los Angeles to have a pool, so that cute boys will come to your house and swim around in the pool.” ImportantHouseBoysMalesCuteLos AngelesSwimPoolHomosexualityCute Boy Author:Guy Branum
“I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.” MenI CanHelpingYoungCultureBoysMalesYoung ManEngagedHyper Author:Nate Parker
“On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet at a certain point, I had a feeling that reminded me how I felt when I was shooting L.A. Confidential. I analyzed it for a while, and thought about how emotionally involved I was with the characters. Then I realized that in both movies, there are three main male characters and one female, and all of them are struggling to figure out what they're doing with their lives, independent of each other.” CharacterFeelingsCertainThreeFeltWonderBoysStruggleFiguresInvolvedFemaleIndependentMalesSurfaceI RealizedContemporaryShootingDepartureConfidential Author:Curtis Hanson