Lynn Coady Quotes

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

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

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

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

I'm not a bro.

I guess I just do being a man different than some.

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'm a man's man.

Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

Masculinity varies from time to time and place to place. But it doesn't exist just in the mind of a single guy: it is shared withthe other guys. It is a code of conduct that requires men to maintain masculine postures and attitudes (however they are defined) at all times and in all places. Masculinity includes the symbols, uniforms, chants, and plays that make this the boys' team rather than the girls' team.

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

When I'm talking to groups that are all men, we talk about how the masculine role limits them. They often want to talk about how they missed having real fathers, real loving, present fathers, because of the way that they tried to fit the picture of masculinity.

My brother and my dad always used to shave their hair, and I remember thinking, 'Why can't I do the same?'

A guy should be a guy. You don't want him to be too... shiny.

Mmm, well that whole thing about having to look tough has never left Australia.

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic.

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

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.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

Being a lad is what I'm about.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.