Masculinity Quotes

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Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense.

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

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

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.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

Masculinity & femininity are just styles. They are interpretations

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

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

I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

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.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

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

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust.

Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his masculinity. Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

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.

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

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.

Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

Women destroy me. I allow them to.

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

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."