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"He's just a flash in the pants."
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"Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood."

"Don't tell me I'm 'too tall' just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look down upon women who are taller than them is the very reason that many men find tall women so intimidating."

"One day I was telling him that I thought that cars had replaced guns as phallic symbols for American men, and I thought it was interesting that he had one that was so small and fast. The next day he gave me the Datsun and went out and bought a Lincoln."

"Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers."

"What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'empathetic and strong, autonomous and connected, responsible to self, to family and friends, to society, and capable of understanding how those responsibilities are, ultimately, inseparable.' Men need feminist thinking. It it the theory that supports their spiritual evolution and their shift away from the patriarchal model. Patriarchy is destroying the well-being of men, taking their lives daily."

"Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots."

"We define masculinity in very narrow way. Masculinity is hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We teach boys to be afraid of fear, of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian-speak-- a hard man."

"He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike."

"If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton."
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"Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops."

"Just when you think you have life by the tail, it's likely to whip around and take a hunk outta your balls."

"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father."
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