masculinity

cheating (affair)

dad joke

coward

Star Wars

fighing

battle of the sexes

husband

instruction manuel

whisky

light bulb joke

eating

steak

Chuck Norris

stripper

cake

blood

enemy

Incredible Hulk

chest hair

Burger King

one-liner

my wife left me

beard

meat eating

housework

macho

beer

femininity

high heels

trivia

homosexuality

repression

Sigmund Freud

toxic masculinity

evolution

Santa Claus

Tesla

electric vehicle

truck

vaping

man flu

hipster

man bun

metrosexual

drinking

cider

shaving

power tool

shaving cream

onesies

tucking in your shirt

is not something given to you, but something one gains. And one gains it by winning small battles with honor.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. (Norman Mailer)

is to give constant proof of one's manliness - to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man is to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak.

Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be a man, live in a manly way, die a manly death. To be thus a man was to give constant proof of one's manliness-to be more a man today than yesterday, more a man tomorrow than today. To be a man was to forge ever upward toward the peak of manhood, there to die amid the white snows of that peak. Yukio Mishima

is falsely understood to be synonymous with superiority. We need to raise our sons more like our daughters, thus relieving them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior.

We need to raise our sons more like our daughters. We need to relieve them of this burden of the idea that to be masculine they have to be superior, which is what they get addicted to, and why both racism and sexism are crimes that I call superiority crimes. Gloria Steinem

is the libido itself. Femininity begins in masculinity but diverges from it.

Masculinity is taken by Freud as the paradigm... he asserts that there is only one libido, which is masculine, and that the psychical development of the girl is at first identical to that of the boy, only diverging at a later moment. Femininity is thus that which diverges from the masculine paradigm, and Freud regards it as a mysterious, unexplored region, a 'dark continent' (Freud, 1926e: SE XX, 212). The 'riddle of the nature of femininity' (Freud, 1933a: SE XXII, 113) comes to preoccupy Freud in his later writings, and drives him to ask the famous question, 'What does woman want'' (see Jones, 1953-7:vol. 2, 468). Masculinity is a self-evident given, femininity is a zone of mystery: (Evans 1999: 221)

'Machismo is most often a sign of insecurity. . . .'

is often not about the woman. When two men fight over a woman, it's the fight they want not the woman.

When two men fight over a woman, it's the fight they want not the woman.

is an utterly infantile notion in America . . . it is virtually an unpatriotic act that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.

is unavoidably. If men had periods, they'd brag about the size of their tampons.

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