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“Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”

Men Black Acceptance Racism Notion Assumption Masculinity Black Women

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.”

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Author:Robin Green

“What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.”

Years Kind Certain Parent Boys Teacher Violence Worst Aggression Masculinity Torment Eleven Mischief Thirteen Passivity Proclamation Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“Femininity doesn't always relate to being a woman and masculinity doesn't always relate to being a man; it's a quality of being-ness. Women have to portray the quality of masculinity; society wants it to be like a man; not necessarily male, but like a man. If that makes sense...In nature itself, there's yin and yang, there's masculine and feminine.”

Ifs Men Want Quality Males Relate Make Sense Feminine Masculinity Femininity Masculine Being A Woman Yang Yin And Yang Masculine And Feminine

Author:Hamid Drake

“I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.”

Thinking Men Way Sides Burden Feminine Coming Out Masculinity Femininity Masculine

Author:Hamid Drake

“I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.”

Thinking Littles Comedy Favors Feminine Masculinity Stand Up Comedy

Author:Bo Burnham

“I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.”

Trying Culture Draws Concepts Males Sexuality Masculinity

Author:Charles M. Blow

“The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for other cultures.”

Way Long Culture Western Notion Racist Masculinity Long Way Other Cultures

Author:Larry McMurtry

“Everyone has a spectrum of masculinity and femininity inside them. In every individual, a war of misogyny is raging. Every man is repressing and oppressing the femininity within themselves, raising up male values as governing values. Because that's what we've been taught to do, just as every woman has. Misogyny isn't just something that affects women. It affects men.”

Men War Values Individual Taught Males Rage Every Man Misogyny Masculinity Femininity Spectrum Governing

Author:Antony Hegarty

“Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.”

Men Has Beens Two Conformity Conform Manhood Masculinity Recognizing Maleness

Author:Andrew Cohen

“At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.”

Men Way Heart Responsibility Protect Appropriate Mature Masculinity Benevolent Protect Women

Book:What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible

Source: What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible

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

Thinking Made White Cases Crisis West Males Masculinity

Author:Scott Thompson

“Every film comes out of an intuition, where I'm at, at that moment in particular. But looking back on my work, somehow I get back to masculinity and how men are taught to avoid showing how fragile they can be, or to people who are in constant movement.”

People Men Moments Film Movement Taught Particular Constant Intuition That Moment Get Back Fragile Looking Back Masculinity

Author:Omar Zuniga

“I'm not interested in going to see films that massively overrepresent men over women. It's lik,e how much more have we got to say about this? Like men in war and dealing with their masculinity in conflict. I just think we've exhausted the landscape.”

Thinking Men War Film Conflict Landscape Not Interested Exhausted Masculinity

Author:Romola Garai

“Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.”

Way Different Reason Problem Girl Community Ability Boys Importance Gender Solve Backgrounds Coming Out Masculinity Gang Membership Marginalized

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“There is a masculinity in riot grrrl music, which is probably why I don't identify with it, but also why it was so important and powerful. That is something our scene has - regardless of who is in it, it has this very powerful feminine energy, like a Nefertiti head bust or Storm from X-Men. It's a woman you see as very powerful, sassy, arrogant, and dark.”

Men Important Energy Dark Powerful Scene Storm Feminine Arrogant Masculinity Very Powerful Riot Sassy X Men Feminine Energy Nefertiti

Author:Le1f

“We need to stop raising boys to think that they need to prove their masculinity by being controlling or by not showing emotion or by not being little girls.”

Thinking Needs Littles Girl Emotion Boys Prove Masculinity

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.”

Individual Cases Genius Approach Masculinity

Author:Otto Weininger

“There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.”

Black Differences White Enormous Masculinity

Author:Jess Row

“There are just so many ways to talk about masculinity, it feels like one medium can't do it alone.”

Way Feels Mediums Masculinity

Author:T Cooper

“I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is "masculinity.”

World Mean Space Levels Issues Conversation Sexuality Layers Masculinity One Word Brutality

Author:Oren Moverman

“What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.”

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Author:Todd Haynes

“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.”

Ifs Knows Way Color Males Masculinity Bizarre Nerd Mega

Author:Junot Diaz

“The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.”

Men Kind Feelings Happens Stuff Term Huge Helpful Affirmation Masculinity Conquest Misguided Affirming Stuff Happens

Author:Donald Miller

“I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.”

Thinking Way Real Problem America Space Powerful Too Much Happenings Crisis Masculinity Framed

Author:Jessica Valenti

“Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason.”

Knows Men Reason Streets Scared Rage Threatened Engaging Masculinity Harassment Street Harassment

Author:Rose McGowan

“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.”

Thinking World Wanted Film Girl Interesting Violence Heard Fashion Teenage Masculinity Combining Teenage Girl Fashion World

Author:Elle Fanning

“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."”

Thinking Wanted Film Girl Demon Teenage Masculinity Neon Teenage Girl

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“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.”

Thinking I Can Helping Can Do Information Overcoming Stronger Males Privilege Help Me Toxic Masculinity Male Privilege

Author:Nate Parker

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

Culture Roles Males Masculinity Hyper

Author:Nate Parker

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Mean Kids Crazy Effects Protect Married Definitions Masculinity Be A Man Hyper Crazy Things

Author:Nate Parker

“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.”

World Ideas Certain Sports Black Imagination Behavior Regard Fixed Masculinity Versus Propensity Antisocial Tropes Antisocial Behavior

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There's always a tug of war. Like, in the States, in America, there's certainly a higher quotient, I would imagine, of, like, macho, like, masculinity posturing.”

War States America Imagine Higher Masculinity Macho Tug Of War

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“So sometimes you have to play your hand and sort of push in a direction. And I think that masculinity is the driving point for a lot of the way that people, like, posture in the work.”

People Thinking Way Sometimes Play Hands Driving Masculinity Posture

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“When I was young there were lesbians who said "Oh, I will free myself of all norms of masculinity, all norms of heterosexuality ". And then, they ended up in very complex relationships that were maybe full of heterosexual power dynamics or full of lesbian forms of masculinity and they became very confused.”

Said Form Young Complexes Confused Masculinity Norm Dynamics Heterosexuality Complex Relationships

Author:Judith Butler

“If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".”

People Ifs Thinking Made Asks Sex Realizing Numbers Mistake One Thing Position Conversation Gender Active Categories Linked Masculinity Sexually Made A Mistake Dominance Heterosexuality

Author:Judith Butler

“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.”

Trying Believe Important Play I Believe Hip Hop Hips Purity Etc Hops Makeup Masculinity Critique

Author:Kim Nam-joon

“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.”

Men Years Kind Doe Stills Today Guy Culture Doors Football Revolution Needed Office Hundred Years Ago Bunch Fifty Cult Masculinity Frontiers Exalted Manly Industrial Revolution

Author:Steve Almond

“All of the women in music business understand that. They're fighting in a misogynist world. That's why they wear some elements of their femininity and have to blend it in with masculinity... it's a kind of protection. Somebody like Madonna is strong but soft. You have to be that way in this business.”

World Way Kind Fighting Strong Elements Protection Masculinity Femininity Music Business

Author:Nelly Furtado

“Men talk about masculinity through sports and clothes. They don't talk about gender, they talk about LeBron James and whether it's okay to wear lipstick and eyeliner. They're not getting to the question at hand, which is, "What does it mean to be a man when the traditional values of masculinity are eroding incredibly rapidly?'”

Men Mean Doe Hands Values Sports Clothes Okay Gender Traditional Masculinity Be A Man Lipstick Traditional Values Eyeliner

Author:Stephen Marche

“Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion around gender norms that's only going to accelerate.”

Men Stills Losing Incredibles Gender Confusion Daily Life Masculinity Norm Iconic Accelerate Manliness Turbulence Losing Power

Author:Stephen Marche

“Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of masculinity and the proper relationship between a man and his children.”

Men Children Stills Father Social Core Traditional Conception Units Masculinity

Author:Stephen Marche

“You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.”

Men Two Reality Fall Economic Happenings Things Happen Traditional Two Things Masculinity Falling Apart

Author:Stephen Marche

“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.”

House White Wife One Thing Trump Traditional White House Masculinity Masculine Putin Parades Parody Philippines Hyper Unsure Patriarch

Author:Stephen Marche

“What we're seeing now is not just a backlash against feminism. When you look at guys like [Jesse] Helms in the '80s or even Reagan and Bush, there was a real political backlash against feminism. This is different. This is a parodic recreation of the destruction of traditional masculinity. Look at these hollow men. Look at Steve Bannon who wears sweat pants, who doesn't shave. Or Yiannopoulos who is just a clown. This is toxic masculinity. It's new. To see it as a return to the past is a mistake. It's the breakdown of traditional masculinity, rather than its retrenchment.”

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Author:Stephen Marche

“Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.”

Ifs Men Want Behinds Traditional Masculinity Iconography Breadwinner

Author:Stephen Marche

“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!”

Thinking Way Stills Would Be Nice Approach Gender Being Nice Masculinity Scope Depiction Videogame

Author:Neil Druckmann

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

Thinking Men Toxic Masculinity

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“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.”

Men Desire Dangerous Say Anything Masculinity

Author:Janet Mock

“Masculinity is, nowadays and generationally, confusing. What is honor, what is protection, what is being a man? It's evolving. But I believe having an open heart - and a strong mind to protect that - is the idea.”

Men Mind Believe Heart Strong I Believe Honor Protect Protection Evolve Masculinity Confusing Open Heart Strong Mind

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

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