“ Once upon a time black male cool was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing their spirits to be ravaged. They took the pain of it and used it alchemically… Bell Hooks
“ The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called patriotism and love of sport. Sinclair Lewis
“ By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectificati… Bell Hooks
“ He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that makes me really uninterested in prom shoes. It’s called a penis. John Green
“ Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds no… Mahatma Gandhi
“ This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with. Alice Munro
“ Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very rea… Miya Yamanouchi
“ 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 trajector… Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“ But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly… Jean Kilbourne
“ Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture. Jean Kilbourne
“ The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes. Jack Donovan
“ If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity. Jack Donovan
“ No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self in another male. Jack Donovan
“ Those four effects described above—shaping a male-dominant view of sexuality, initiating victims, contributing to difficulty in separating sexual fantasy and reality, and providing a training manual f… Robert Jensen
“ I quickly found the dating/hookup app to be a dangerous addition to my iPhone. A friend recommended it after shit hit the fan with my boyfriend. With enough breakups under my belt, I knew that the hea… Maggie Georgiana Young
“ Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot physically look down upon women who are taller than them is t… Miya Yamanouchi
