P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

The real victims of men are other men.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

I think its feminism. If it’s tied to the last 50 years—the average size of a male’s member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago—it has to be the feminazis, the chickafication, and everything else.

While Muslim men describe themselves as insecure in their harems, real or imagined, Westerners describe themselves as self-assured heroes with no fears of women. The tragic dimension so present in Muslim harems - fear of women and male self-doubt - is missing in the Western harem.

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

Machistas are out of style.

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 a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

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

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.