Irvine Welsh Quotes

Men can be feminists.

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

Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

We, all of us, are awakening to the reality that how men have behaved toward women for eons is not OK. The rules are changing invisibly underneath our feet. I am playing catch up. Maybe we all are.

We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.

So, obviously, on International Women's Day, we are honoring the achievements of women, but gender equality and feminism cannot evolve in our humanity if we're not bringing our boys and men along.

Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.