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The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking i...

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I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unu...

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He, after all, had no standards of manliness, of virility, to complicate his pride.

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, o...

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Alice MunroLives of Girls and Women

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his fee...

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Anaïs NinIn Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That mean...

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Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – ...

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Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-est...

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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

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Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

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Again and again a man would tell me about early childhood feelings of emotional exuberance, of unrep...

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No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the ...

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We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see tha...

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Like many liberal men in the age of feminism, he believed women should have equal access to jobs and...

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This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or...

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Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would h...

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No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent hom...

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There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they...

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What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'emp...

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Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be int...

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Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships o...

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Bell hooksWe Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it w...

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Bell hooksWe Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

Men weren’t really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystiqu...

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First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

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First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged...

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By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl!...

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C. S. LewisThe Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay h...

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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...

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Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the wov...

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But by far the worst thing we do to males — by making them feel they have to be hard — is that we le...

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He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetuall...

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Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots...

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... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a ...

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The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men's eyes.

No matter how exotic or seemingly different another man is, there's always some reflection of self i...

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If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist cr...

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One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

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Dude, I don’t want to talk about Lacey’s prom shoes. And I’ll tell you why: I have this thing that m...

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Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

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Larry McMurtryThe Last Kind Words Saloon

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing ...

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Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to G...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, fal...

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Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not ...

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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Women destroy me. I allow them to.