Picking on Men

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Lysistrata: "Before now, and for quite some time, we maintained our decorum and suffered in silence whatever you men did, because you wouldn't let us make a sound. But you weren't exactly all we could ask for. No, we knew only too well what you were up to, and many a time we'd hear in our homes about the bad decision you'd made on some great issue of state. Then, masking the pain in our hearts, we'd put on a smile and ask you, 'How did the Assembly go today? Any decision about a rider to the peace treaty?' And my husband would say, 'What's that to you? Shut up!' And I'd shut up."

Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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“A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”

Paul Simon - The Boxer

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"Men are communist, socialist, or anarchist from the waist up”

Antonia García

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"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

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"Today a doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger."

Arthur Miller, quoted in A Book of Quotes

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"Dozens of studies show that males of all ages engagein more physical aggression, fantasy aggression, verbal aggression and play aggression than females do."

Eleanor Maccoby and Carol Jacklin, quoted by Philip Hodson, Observer

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"Man, biologically considered [...] is the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species."

William James

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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."

D. H. Lawrence, Mountain

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"Men, with all their bravado, seldom have the courage to stick a flower on their desks."

Alan Alda

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"My advice to any girl anxious to explore the world outside her home after marriage, is to choose a man not only intelligent and capable, but above all one who is able to cook a light meal without regarding it as a slur on his virility."

The Rt Hon. Baroness Summerskill, quoted in The Wit of Women

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"A Good Ole Boy is not simply a man who makes a to- do out of his masculinity - most men do a little of that. He makes such an incessant fetish out of it that he becomes gamey, or pathetic, or both."

Florence King, Southern Ladies and Gentlemen

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"Of course, men are dreadfully hung up on their virility, so they drive big cars, drink vodka and make rude cracks to undermine each other's sex life."

Anon journalist, quoted by Carol Dix in 'Who's Afraid of the Female Sex Drive', Cosmopolitan, May 1974

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I've never found brawn appealing. If I went out with Macho Man I think I'd have a permanent headache. Kind of 'You Tarzan - Mi-graine'.

-Overheard on a bus

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"It is long, loud, male and nihilistic, and you can put those in any order of importance, because they are all responsible for one another."

Russell Davies, reviewing Cross of Iron

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"What have Hemingway and Hefner and Bogart and (even) John Kennedy and Charles Atlas and the sins of our fathers before them done to our males that they continue to labour under their own ghostly machismo? - which must be the loneliest, most fragile state in the world, this worship of form without content."

Cynthia Buchanan, New York Times, 9th February, 1972

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

Germaine Greer, 'My Mailer Problem'

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"John Wayne is supposed to be masculinity personified but to me he represents stupidity, rigidity and boredom - the masculine thing is very boring."

Rene Daalder, quoted by Jill Tweedie, Guardian, 2nd February, 1970