“Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.” MenFeelsMadeSufferingCultureWomenEnemyFeminismBearsDiversityFellowsVictimSocial JusticeMasculineInadequateMystique Author:Betty Friedan
“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.” MenTwoFactsCultureWomenSidesDiversityFemaleSocial JusticeMalesPassingPassingsRadicalFeminineMasculineFluidTwo SidesNineteenth CenturyTranscendentalismDualismMasculine And Feminine Book:Woman in the Nineteenth Century Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.” CultureExpressionEmpathyFeminineWarmthSweetnessMasculineImpedimentsTrajectory Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.” MayRealSelfBodyCareSpiritCultureBornDevilExcuseFleshConfusionFeminineMuseumsFierceMagnificentRoutesMasculineVesselTouristsWill PowerCathedralsDietingSkyscraper Author:Marion Woodman
“There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.” MenCultureContemporaryMasculineFaux Author:David Gordon Green
“Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.” Has BeensArtBodyCultureActivityWesternMetaphorSexismLinkedPowerlessMasculine Author:Whitney Chadwick
“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.” MenWorldEnoughCultureFatherTalkingTeachShareModelsRootsRaisedMythQuestioningMasculinityMasculineDiscouragedBe A ManOur FatherMystique Author:Frank Pittman