Billy Eichner Quotes

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

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

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

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

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

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

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

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

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

I come from a country whose idea of masculinity is quite extreme, and I've grown up around a lot of that energy. I've been part of that a lot. And it's very draining; it's quite tiring trying to be macho.

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

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

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.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.