At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even ‘regular guys’ are apparently just a fashion fad – this season’s accessory.
Mark SimpsonTag: men metrosexual mark-simpson metrosexy retrosexual
Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
John SteinbeckTag: men philosophy psychology personality tom-hamilton
The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved.
John SteinbeckSometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all.
John SteinbeckTag: men women nature personality mountains landscape
Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one. Will [Hamilton] had concealed his well, laughed loud, exploited perverse virtues, and never let his jealousy go wandering [...] He was always on the edge, trying to hold on to the rim of the family with what gifts he had - care, and reason, application. He kept the books, hired the attorneys, called the undertaker, and eventually paid the bills. The others didn't even know they needed him.
John SteinbeckTag: men family personality
Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
John SteinbeckTag: man men personality
Men are all alike. Grown-up children.
Suzanne Woods FisherMen had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.
John Burnham SchwartzTag: love men scarcity schwartz the-commoner
I like the idea of these bad boys having soft nougat centers.
J.W. BectonTag: men attraction
Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.
Lynne Reid BanksTag: men
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