“To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.” GuyBitsSituationEnvironmentNiceMilitaryPoliceMalesHard ThingsNice GuyCrassBlowhards Author:Dean Norris
“As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.” PlayGuyCertainActorsFunStandardsMalesPatternsLockedMacho Author:Fred Ward
“I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.” FeelsGuyLiteratureMalesExhaustedMale Friendship Author:Irvine Welsh
“I'd like to be the John Wayne of the '90s. Not in terms of being the macho guy, but as a solid male leading character. Making an action-adventure comedy that kids can see with their families is a natural extension of what I did in wrestling.” CharacterKidsActionGuyTermNaturalComedyAdventureMalesWrestlingExtensionsWayneMacho Author:Hulk Hogan
“The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.” MenDoeEnoughGuyFallEnemyFireDramaGardenMalesOpponentsCosmicMisogynyCastingGenesisSerpentConspiratorsSwerve Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.” KnowsMenNeedsStillsEnoughGuySpaceAnimalRoomsCasesWifeGroupsSmartSpeciesMalesCowsThat Guy Author:Julia Phillips
“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.” MenMayPersonsHas BeensMadeRealGuyHumanityFatherPracticeSacrificeHe ManHeroIdealsMalesSakeMythInvisibleBossAncestorMasculinityRidiculeMasculineRivalsBuddyOther GuysComradeChorusReal Person Author:Frank Pittman