Deeyah Khan Quotes

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

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

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

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 actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

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

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

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

I think we still live in this era of hyper-masculinity.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

There's so much toxic masculinity out there. I grew up with the notion that the more masculine you are and the less you show emotion, the more of a man you are.

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.

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

Male bonobos really don't fit the human male ideal.

Masculinity is kind of a toxic curse, isn't it? The expectations of it were hard on me.

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

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

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

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

The real victims of men are other men.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.