Jonathan Carroll Quotes

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl.

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

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

Women put guys through tests all the time.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

When I walk into a video arcade filled with 16- or 17-year-old boys, I may as well be Marilyn Monroe.

I find there's this weird anger thing: Someone will approach me at the bar and say, 'Hey, can I buy you a drink?' And I'll say, 'No, I'm okay.' And then all of a sudden, there's this male anger flip, where they go, 'Oh, you know what? I wasn't even gonna buy you a drink, 'cause you're not even that cute anyway,' and walk away.

I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.

I hate people who 'gaze rape' me.

I feel myself in ways to be the product of internalized male gaze.

In your 20s and 30s, everything is possible. But then, sooner than you think, men walk past you in the street and don't look twice at you unless you're wearing a fabulous outfit.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

Having attractive women is very appealing to most men.

Men don't quite know how to read women if they're not used to seeing them in a business environment.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

It's hard sometimes because people don't take a model seriously in any sense. Unless she's taking a photo, that's as good as she is.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

In Bollywood, our actresses are majorly required to look pretty all the time.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

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