#masculinity

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

— Vin Diesel

#clearly #entire #entire life #feminine #her

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

— Scott Thompson

#could #crisis #i #i think #made

Great men have great discipline.” ― Habeeb Akande ↗

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#great #greatness #hero #leaders #leadership

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#believe #concepts #guy #harsh #his

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#bravado #closer #fear #get #i

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

— Norman Mailer

#gain #given #honor #masculinity #small

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

— Norman Mailer

#american life #american men #because #built-in #certain

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#beautiful #become #compassion #conscious #dad

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#masculinity #never #power #solve #until

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity