Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.
Deeyah Khan
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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
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.
Bryan Callen
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer
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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.
Saskia de Brauw
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I guess all of us have a little bit of both masculinity and femininity, and bridging the gap between those two things is really fertile.
Arca
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
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My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.
Nick Offerman
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Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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Men in Rajasthan pride themselves on their moustaches. It is a sign of their masculinity.
Ashish Sharma
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I like naughty boys. I was married to David Bailey, who was one of the naughtiest. I like real men, and I like masculinity.
Marie Helvin
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This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.
Kehinde Wiley
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I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.
Andrew Haigh
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Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.
Susan Griffin
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I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.
James Ransone
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I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.
Taika Waititi
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It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.
Miranda Otto
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I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.
Perfume Genius
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We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem
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There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.
Karamo Brown
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I want to show straight men and gay men alike that self-care and grooming isn't mutually exclusive with, like, femininity or masculinity.
Jonathan Van Ness
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Usually, like, anyone that would adopt, like, 'masc,' period, to describe them - it's a very phony, stereotypical masculinity.
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The AW14 collection is inspired by Film Noir. Elements of masculinity and femininity were reflected in the fabric, tailoring, and features.
Emilia Wickstead
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