Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced.
For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do.
Tags: wisdom life philosophy feminism culture western-civilization women-s-liberation postmodernism popular-culture modernity maleness
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
Norah VincentTags: loss conformity gender-stereotypes masculinity tenderness maleness
It is assured that men of all ages imagine a woman naked when they first meet.
Tiffany MadisonTags: men relationships human-nature men-and-women male-thinking maleness male-and-female
These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.
Don DeLilloTags: tools masculinity manliness maleness
Now he had chanced on one of he standard hard-on sessions of the shower, as on both sides of him and across the room three queens sported horizontal members which they turned around from time to time to conceal or display, barely exchanging looks as they resolved. The old men took no interest in this activity, knowing perhaps from long experience that it rarely meant anything or led anywhere, was a brief and helpless surrender to the forcing-house of the shower. In a few seconds the hard-on might pass from one end of the room to the other with the foolish perfection of a Busby Berkeley routine.
Alan HollinghurstTags: gay maleness penis hard-on reflexes shower-room
Eyebeam: What do you mean, I have “male answer syndrome”?
Sally: It’s the compulsion to provide an answer to any question, even if it means resorting to pure speculation.
Eyebeam: I knew that…
Sally: It’s a very widespread phenomenon.
Beth: I wonder what causes it?
Eyebeam: Cause? Well, society has chosen male role models who always exhibit total control… If a male says “I don’t know”, he’s admitting to conversational helplessness and failing to live up to that societal standard…
Sally: Pretty pitiful, huh?
Eyebeam: Damn!
Beth: …And I always thought they learned it all in “shop”.
Tags: gender-stereotypes gender-roles maleness mansplaining
Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?
Tags: breathless maleness
He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp light, the gorgeous spread of his shoulders, tapering down to the narrow thrust of his hips, made my ovaries ache deep in my belly.
Emme RollinsTags: sex-appeal erotic male-beauty alpha sexual erotica sexy erotic-romance alpha-males maleness gorgeous alpha-heroes erotica-romance sexy-men new-adult masculine new-adult-romance new-adult-fiction gorgeousness
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