Emily V. Gordon Quotes

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

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

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.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

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

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

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.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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

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.

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

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

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Boys are so much drama.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

All men are difficult.

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

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.