Scott Thompson Quotes

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I don't know enough about manliness to define it.

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative 'man card' that's got certain punches that need to be punched.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I'm not a bro.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

I'm not macho, I'm not a Mel Gibson sort of person.

Boys are so much drama.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

There aren't a whole lot of people in culture that are unapologetically masculine.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

We're living at a time when people are questioning what it means to be male in modern society, and I'm finding it very helpful to explore it through these roles.

In thinking about male identities, I'm struck by the inadequacy of the terms we use. The notion that men should be distant, domineering and self-seeking is often described as toxic masculinity, but this serves only to alienate those who might need most help.

The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.