Jack Antonoff Quotes

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.'

It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

I don't think men were meant to be interviewed.

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

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

Women may think men have it all, but only because we've been socialized to express the emotions that are tied to this reality differently, which is to say, men are not to express the emotions that are tied to it.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

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

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

Guys don't like women telling them what to do. It reminds them of their mothers, or something like that.

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.

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

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

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