“The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The masculine image, a man's personal style, changing attitudes to the male face and body.” MenWayYearsLooksBodyFacesAttitudeFocusSubjectsFashionStyleChangedPhotographyMalesMasculinePersonal StyleChanging Attitude Author:Mario Testino
“I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.” WarPhilosophySubjectsMalesTraditionalAbstractPrincipalDisguiseMasquerade Author:Pam Gems
“As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.” LongTakenSubjectsSeriousJudgingBehaviorJudgmentStandardsMalesDefinitionsTraitsQuestioningNorm Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.” ArtFormArtistIndividualCommonCreativitySubjectsPositionObjectsTransformationMalesIndividualityProducersDeniedRepresentationBizarreWoman ArtistConfounding Book:Women, Art, and Society Source: Women, Art, and Society
“Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.” YearsTodayCertainActingComedySubjectsChangedParticularFemaleYears AgoFunctionImpactMalesSexualityPreservesEntertainingBodily Functions Author:Patrick Stewart
“In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure out how to persevere and take on the obstacles and foes and you don't necessarily know if that's going to happen with the subjects of love stories.” IfsKnowsWayPersonsStoriesHappensFilmSubjectsFiguresMalesObstaclesHarmDrivenLove StoryFoePersevereProtagonists Author:Todd Haynes
“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.” ChildrenPoliticalImaginationMoralSupportMysterySubjectsMissingPhotographyAdultsRegardDistanceCriticsMalesAweInvolvingSinkingNudityPumpsEnchantmentDisapproval Author:J. G. Ballard