Susan Griffin Quotes

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.

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

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I'm not a bro.

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.

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.

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

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

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

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

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they try to question traditional notions of masculinity and the sort of toxic nature of traditional ways of presenting masculinity.

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

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

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

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

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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