Jay Ellis Quotes

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

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

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

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

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

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

Men are irrelevant.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Trump... has the 'strong father' masculine energy.

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

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

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

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

The real victims of men are other men.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?