Male Objectification Quotes

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

The fact that women are constantly supposed to be beautiful, gorgeous, and perfect all the time is something they have always had to live with. But now it's happening to men, too. There seems to be this imperative that you have to be hot or ripped or fit or healthy or whatever you want to call it.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

I think there's a lot of attractive black men.

I'm doing what every guy in America has secretly fantasized - being a Chippendales dancer and having women throw themselves at you.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.

Men don't really like skinny, do they?

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

That leading-man expectation is, sadly, to have all these rippling muscles.

'Desperate Housewives' - there's no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were 'Desperate Househusbands,' they would shut ABC down.

I was a boy toy for a bunch of women.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm more interested in being an actor than a heartthrob.

I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'