Joe Manganiello Quotes

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

All the societal pressures that make girls feel as if they're too smart, especially in the sciences - 'No one will date them. They won't be popular.' - don't apply to boys. The boys are being encouraged.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.