Hanna Rosin Quotes

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.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

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

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

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

The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.

If you're not the guy who is going to puff your chest out like a rooster and go fight somebody, our society discards you.

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

Why should men be constrained by antiquated stereotypes of masculinity? What does it even mean to 'Be a Real Man' anymore? Shouldn't we all be celebrating a wide range of definitions of manhood?

I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men.

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

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

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

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

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.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.