Deeyah Khan Quotes

The young men felt that they were denied manhood

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

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.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

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.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.